Nonie Darwish was scheduled to speak at two famous American universities. She was invited not by the universities themselves, but by student groups. And it was by student groups that she was dis-invited, groups that were responding to enormous pressure from Muslims on campus. Is this purely a private matter,…
Omar Bin Laden, news reports tell us, would like a job at the U.N. This isn’t a case of someone wishing to further terrorism. By all accounts, he does not approve of his famous father. But that is not the only reason to give Omar Bin Laden a job at…
“What about the many Muslims who have served and now the 20,000 who currently serve in the armed forces, those that fought and died in Afghanistan and Iraq? Are they influenced by their religion in their willingness to serve, fight and die for their country? Courageous Muslims like Kareem Rashad…
Obama is on the run. He has spent the past year in many separate, long trips all over the place. In Great Britain, he gave Gordon Brown some DVDs and Michele Obama in chummy fashion — nobody here but us queens — put her arm on the Queen’s shoulder. In…
If you have been paying attention – and even if you have not – by now you know that something is going on in Yemen. You have heard about the “Houthis” – that is, a group of Shi’a, who have named themselves after a leader of one of their tribes,…
“We are at war…with Islamic heretics” — from an article in the Los Angeles Times by Judith Miller and David Samuels Now we all know what a Christian heresy is. It is a belief that is held by some who call themselves Christians that has been characterized or defined…
I have heard on the radio, and read, a new theme about Nidal Malik Hasan. Now it is not so much “Islam has nothing to do with it” as – well, yes, come to think of it, Major Nidal Malik Hasan gave that lecture so nicely illustrating, for those with…
Nidal Malik Hasan offered a course in Islam here, but his real course in Islam came later, at Fort Hood. KILLEEN, Texas – Leaders of the vibrant Muslim community here expressed outrage on Friday at the shooting rampage being laid to one of their members, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who…
Some keep telling us that Nidal Malik Hasan’s act “had nothing to do with being a Muslim.” And there is a variant on this, used by those who, though they may have reservations about Islam, offer us a false alternative. One such Offeror of False Alternatives is that publicity-hound the…
#1. “Major Hasan’s motives are still being investigated, though his family and acquaintances cited stress fro his counseling job, his opposition to the wars, his pending deployment and his feeling that he was being harassed as a Muslim.” #2. “But those who work day in and day out treating…
