It’s just a symbolic gesture. Mosques can function perfectly well without minarets. In fact, Saudi Wahhabi mosques don’t have minarets, because they’re considered bid’a, innovation. But the widespread support for a minaret ban represents the frustration of the common people with the elites’ indifference toward and/or complicity with Islamization and…
WASHINGTON — A narrow majority of Americans support President Obama’s revamped strategy on Afghanistan, according to a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Wednesday, but there are broad concerns that the costs of the war will sap the government’s ability to address problems facing the nation at home. via Poll: Narrow majority support Obama’s Afghan strategy – [...]
Jihad Watch reader James has alerted me to an email campaign by Leftist and Islamic supremacists, complaining to USA Today for quoting me in this article. Never mind that the smooth dissembler Salam al-Marayati of MPAC is also quoted — the Leftist/Jihadist thugs are increasingly desperate that the truth not…
Afghanistan: The month before the one-year anniversary of his inauguration, the president has finally settled on the strategy for what he called a “war of necessity.” But leaving, not winning, is the goal.How often in history, if ever, has a British defense secretary slammed a U.S. commander in chief for indecisiveness? Britain’s Bob Ainsworth last [...]
The anti-war Left is not even waiting until President Obama delivers his speech on Afghanistan tonight to denounce him. His own friends are now turning on the poor guy.
Obama is going to begin to understand what George Bush had to put up with. And it may even get more vitriolic since the Leftists who helped [...]
The execrable CAIR tool and libelblogger Charles Johnson has posted a self-righteous laundry list purporting to explain why he betrayed all his principles, friends, and associates: “Why I Parted Ways with the Right.” You can find it here — the adolescent libelblogger has blocked direct links from this site, but…
The Pentagon is gearing up for a significant troop deployment as we near the official announcement tomorrow night of President Obama’s new Afghanistan strategy, which he delivered to his top advisors in a Sunday meeting at the White House.
After all the media hoopla generated by a very public disconnect between Gen. Stanley McChrystal and the [...]
I first became aware of politics, in the ordinary sense, during the presidential election of 1948. My parents and their friends belonged to the Democratic Party and had voted for Roosevelt. It was what they called their “mass work”—going to where the people were, in order to lead them to something better. This had been [...]
Lucy Mashua, a victim of female genital mutilation, leads a new worldwide campaign.
