The propaganda campaign in favor of Islam is intense, subtle, clever, elegant, vulgar, massively well-funded, and incredibly well coordinated, synchronous, just like suicide bombings often are. This “war by other means” is even more important, partly because it continues to “gentle” the West into submission by misinforming the public and partly because this kind of [...]

Propaganda, disguised as “politics,” has a way of inserting itself into one’s personal life in very unexpected and often unpleasant ways. Some people cannot talk about Presidents Obama or Bush without getting into shouting matches and ending their friendships. Some families can only break bread together if they avoid talking about certain subjects. The most [...]

The propaganda campaign in favor of Islam is intense, subtle, clever, elegant, vulgar, massively well-funded, and incredibly well coordinated, synchronous, just like suicide bombings often are. This “war by other means” is even more important, partly because it continues to “gentle” the West into submission by misinforming the public and partly because this kind of [...]

Originally published on November 30, 2010 Recently, a good feminist—yes they do exist–someone who has fought in the trenches for years on behalf of battered and raped women—implored me to stop publishing at this site. She said that I was the only “real,” pioneer feminist left standing who had continued to engage in the most [...]

Editor’s note: This post responds to Megan Fox’s “Open Letter to Second Wave Feminsts: You Failed.” Words fail me. Well—not really. Megan Fox should think twice before dishonoring an entire movement because she disagrees with its position on reproductive rights and its analysis of marriage. My Second Wave generation of feminists bravely exposed the pre-existing [...]

Recently, a good feminist—yes they do exist–someone who has fought in the trenches for years on behalf of battered and raped women—implored me to stop publishing at this site. She said that I was the only “real,” pioneer feminist left standing who had continued to engage in the most important battles which humanity now faces. [...]

I recently spoke at length about Islamic gender and religious apartheid in the Arab and non-Arab Muslim world. This was, perhaps, the first time that anyone had ever focused on this subject at this distinguished Ivy League university. I described both the level of poverty and illiteracy in the Arab and Muslim world and the [...]

Orthodox Jews pray at the Western Wall in the old city of Jerusalem in 1905. Al-Kotel Al-Ma’aravi? The Muslims – not the Islamists – mean to take over every Jewish site in Jewish Israel. And the United Nations means to assist them. The Palestinian Authority has recently issued a new and particularly brazen report in [...]

Sirwa Hama Amin, with her son in Erbil, Iraq Romeo and Juliet are alive and well in Dokan, Iraq—well, not exactly. Romeo (Aram Jamal Rasool) was murdered in an honor killing. Juliet (Sirwa Hama Amin) gave birth to her legal husband Romeo’s son, but was also permanently shunned by her own family—the same family who [...]

He hid her in plain sight. Her face was on posters plastered all over Utah, her kidnapping had launched one of the greatest manhunts in American history. Nevertheless, Brian Mitchell, the man who kidnapped 14 year-old Elizabeth Smart at knife-point in her bedroom actually got away with it for nine months. He kept Elizabeth as [...]