Archives for 2006

I get called ignorant of Islam about five times a day. Muslims and non-Muslims write to me or about me in hot indignation, claiming that I’m misrepresenting Islam. But none of the enlightened ones have ever bothered to clue me in about the real, peaceful thing — which, of course, also seems to elude the […]

Video at Hot Air. Excellent analysis at NewsBusters. I was in Washington the other night and I had the honor of meeting Christopher Hitchens. And you know something? I didn’t kill him. You may be surprised by this, but it didn’t even cross my mind to do so. See, a few years ago Christopher Hitchens […]

Sure, drop “Islamic fascism.” “Jihad” is more accurate, and it even has fewer syllables. From AP: Washington: Democratic Senator Russ Feingold demanded that President George W. Bush refrain from using the phrase “Islamic fascists”, saying it offends Muslims and has nothing to do with terrorists fighting the United States. “We must avoid using misleading and […]

As if every reporter who fawns over CAIR weren’t enough. As if every mudslinging coward like Ralph Peters weren’t enough. As if every preening TV blowhard on the Left and the Right weren’t enough. As if the Hizballah News Agency itself, aka Reuters, weren’t enough. As if a generally cowed and submissive and frequently complicit […]

Amir Taheri exposes the deceptions involved in former Iranian President Khatami’s taqiyya-laden recent U.S. visit in the New York Post: Throughout, he presented himself as former president of “Iran,” rather than of the Islamic Republic – although, legally speaking, there is no state known as Iran. He also insisted on describing himself as hich-kareh – […]

Here’s an absolute must-read essay from the always perceptive European essayist Fjordman: The relationship Americans have with Europe has always been complicated. On one hand, it is the Mother Continent. On the other hand, there is a skeptical or rejectionist view of Europe in the US, as many European Americans left precisely to get away […]

What does it mean to use the phrase “a tiny minority of extremists”? What must it mean, in order to make sense? It means that there is a political doctrine, a belief-system, a cult, a “religion” or a “major world religion,” some of whose adherents are apparently extremely extreme in their embrace of that (choose: […]

What did you think of the Iran-Iraq War? Did it bother you? Did it please you? Did it please you to know that for eight years the two most aggressive Muslim states were using up money, men, and materiel fighting each other? Did it please you to know that Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the U.A.E. […]

Adam loves my new book I’m videoblogging at Hot Air again this morning, discussing the invitation to Islam I received from Al-Qaeda’s Adam Gadahn.

Al-Maliki asks for the Thug-In-Chief’s help in reining in the Sunni jihadists. Here we see looming in Iraq the Shi’ite client state of Iran that the U.S. has unwittingly helped put into place with its short-sighted democracy project. As we have noted here many times, that project failed to take into account the realities of […]