Muslim father misunderstands Islam, calls for murder of his son for converting to Christianity

As we all know from the mainstream media coverage of the Rifqa case, a Muslim father would never — never — call for the death of one of his children for leaving Islam! Why, it would be absolutely unheard of! If only Lamine Yansané’s father, El Hadj Aboubacar Yansané, could…

Another spy scandal at Gitmo: Arab and Pashtu interpreters omitted info from their translations of detainee interrogations

Their loyalties, if this is true, were with Islam, not with the United States. That should not be surprising: it is a staple of Islamic thought that loyalty to one’s fellow Muslims trumps all other loyalties. “Another spying scandal at Gitmo,” by Paul Sperry for the New York Post, December…

Lunch Break

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Lunch Break

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Media Matters denounces global warming ‘false claims’ (no, not those ones…)

Back in July, Media Matters scolded conservative columnists George Will and Mark Steyn for making “false claims” about global warming:
In his July 23 Washington Post column, George Will repeated National Review Online columnist Mark Steyn’s false claim that “[i]f you’re 29, there has been no global warming for your entire adult life. If you’re graduating [...]