You’ll recall that they had the unmitigated gall to have "’gathered on the campus and [begun] shouting in a way that contradicts’ campus regulations." The prior report also notes that the religious police were involved in the response. "Saudi women students boycott classes in rare protest," from Reuters, March 10:…
The number of dead and the brutality of their deaths are staggering, and almost beyond belief. But the report has been picked up by major news organizations, including the Daily Mail. One of the starkest differences between the values we defen…
Sabatina James has spoken out before on how virtually no one in the present political establishment is willing to stand up for persecuted Christians, let alone ex-Muslims. When your cause is not fashionable, apparently your suffering does not count. "My mother wants me dead: Catholic convert speaks out after fleeing…
These detainees are not bit players; some are reportedly considered "high risk." Left unsaid in this report is what the U.S. gets out of it. It sounds as much as ever as if Washington is willing to trade risky American actions to see the Taliban to say the right…
Either Hamas is in control of Gaza, or it is not. It cannot have it both ways. What other country but Israel would be expected to tolerate the intolerable: an unstable, selectively sovereign neighbor with a stated intention of destroying its n…
You see, they had "’gathered on the campus and began shouting in a way that contradicts’ campus regulations." May a woman shout within campus regulations? Probably not. Wherever people are marked off as second-class citizens, they wind up bearing a disproportionate burden to keep the peace by knowing their "place."…
Only if one were proceeding on ill-informed assumptions. In Iraq, policymakers were surprised at how flimsy the veneer of tolerance and modernity turned out to be. In Afghanistan, they expected tolerance and modernity if we just peeled away a …
This "report" is a Purim prank, but it’s delightful, and casts a sharp contrast with the monumental wet blanket thrown by the Ayatollah Khomeini: "Allah did not create man so that he could have fun. The aim of creation was for mankind to be put to the test through hardship…
On display here is a tactic that turns up wherever politics are at work in a society: advancing one’s agenda under labels that employ pleasant generalities that sound like good things at face value. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (what, don’t you like the will of "the people"?). The…
Something’s missing… Much better! The new emirate’s top 3 exports will be — let’s see — blood, blood, and… blood. Jihad causes poverty. "Al-Qaeda declares parts of Yemen theirs," by Fatik al-Rodaini for Bikya Masr, March 9 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): SANA’A, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, (AQAP)…
