Indonesia: Fatwa against transsexuals and transvestites

Yet most such people in the West would consider resistance to Sharia to be “bigoted” and “racist.” Sharia Alert from Indonesia: “Islamic scholars against trans working in women’s beauty salons,” by Mathias Hariyadi for Asia News, May 26 (thanks to Block Ness): Jakarta (AsiaNews) – A group of Islamic experts…

The Meaning of Miss Muslim USA

How much does the Left care about what would happen to Rima Fakih under Sharia Law?

The Day Somali Music Died

Why Somali Islamists have banned songs.

Radical Son Reflections, Part I: The Hidden Blessing of Inequality

Today, we will start a new series here at NewsRealblog, the subject of which will be David Horowitz’s political memoirs Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey. I started reading this book, described by P.J. O’Rourke as “one of the best political memoirs I have ever read,” for the first time a few days ago and will [...]

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Lunch Break

That you are fair or wise is vain,
Or strong, or rich, or generous;
You must have also the untaught strain
That sheds beauty on the rose.
There is a melody born of melody,
Which melts the world into a sea.
Toil could never compass it,
Art its height could never hit,
It came never out of wit,
But a music music-born
Well may Jove [...]

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