And all of it was perpetrated by Sharia supremacist groups acting in the name of Islam. “‘Obliterating’ Iraq’s Christians,” by Nina Shea in the Washington Post, May 14: What is most startling about the report of the heartless double bus bombings on May 2 that targeted and injured 80 Christian…
Well, now we know why Faisal Shahzad did what he did. For god’s sake, you don’t have to be Robert Pape to know that Islam had nothing to do with it. It was loss of status. It was poverty. Here was poor Faisal Shahzad, the son of a high-ranking Pakistani…
I listened recently on NPR to a discussion about Empowerment of Women In Islam. The two guests were Sakena Yacoobi, an Afghan who for many years lived in the United States and is now back in Afghanistan, and Isobel Coleman, who after years in business (mainly as a McKinsey consultant),…
More trouble ahead. “Are Sadr militias rearming in Iraq’s south?” by Jane Arraf for the Christian Science Monitor, May 12: Baghdad – A senior US general said forces loyal to Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr are rising again in Iraq’s south, engaging in intimidation, extortion, and political violence as politicians in…
Islamic terrorists are not ignorant and poor, but neither are they truly educated.
And those who are training overseas now “can as Dutch citizens return to the Netherlands, ready to answer the call for further action.” “The Dutch Taliban,” from DutchNews, May 13: Recently growing attention has been given to US citizens who have joined the jihad in Pakistan. But the phenomenon is…
Few things irritate me as much as when self-righteous commentators condemn their opponents by comparing them to Nazis, which actually is a type of Nazi tactic itself. Nazis and other tyrants use generalizations and flimsy comparisons to denigrate their enemies.
Their tactic is simple, yet effective: First, pick the most disgusting form of life you can [...]
It’s bad enough that mainstream conservatives like Gov. Sarah Palin and Erick Erickson have endorsed Ron Paul’s son Rand in Kentucky’s Senate race. But now that two more major conservative leaders—Dr. James Dobson and Sen. Jim DeMint—have done the same, the Right should be very troubled by the mainstreaming of the Paul family’s near-total abandonment [...]
Woof, woof From our Thank You For Proving Our Point Department. Was it a jihadist, or a useful idiot and illiberal leftist? In either case, the perpetrator will scramble to explain how he attempted to defend human rights and tolerance by utterly violating both principles. “Swedish artist attacked during…
