The America’s Truth Forum symposium in Las Vegas ended with a bang on Saturday afternoon, when a Q-and-A featuring most of the participants (some, alas, had earlier flights to catch) devolved into an exchange between Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir and me about Islam and the Qur’an. This was because Hamid Mir asserted in his address […]
Archives for 2006
Spencer: CAIR’s Congress
In “CAIR’s Congress” in FrontPage this morning, I discuss some of what we can reasonably expect from the incoming Congress (news links in the original): With the Democratic victory in the midterm elections, one big winner was the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR). The American Islamic pressure group now has a chance to advance […]
Theodore Dalrymple reviews Spencer’s The Truth About Muhammad
In “Marxism’s Successor” in FrontPage, Theodore Dalrymple discusses my new book The Truth about Muhammad: Founder of the World’s Most Intolerant Religion. For the second time in living memory, we find ourselves obliged by historical circumstances to examine doctrinal philosophies that, from the abstract intellectual point of view, are not worth examining. They belong, rather, […]
Audio files of Robert Spencer, Wafa Sultan talks at Las Vegas conference
Robert Spencer with Pamela of Atlas Shrugs You can listen to wav files of the full addresses by Wafa Sultan and me at the America’s Truth Forum symposium in Las Vegas on Saturday at the wonderful Atlas Shrugs site.
What are we fighting for?
On August 4 I spoke at the Young America’s Foundation conference in Washington, DC. I had the honor of following an address by Elizabeth Kantor, the editor of the Conservative Book Club and author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature. Kantor’s address was a superb summation of some of the values […]
EU approves rules on tracing fund transfers to combat terror financing
Measures to halt terror financing are much-needed on both sides of the Atlantic. “Council approves rules on the tracing of fund transfers in order to better combat terrorist financing,” from Europa, : The Council today adopted[1] a regulation laying down rules on information regarding the payer that accompanies transfers of funds for the purposes of […]
Iranian Prosecutor-General: Arrest Argentine authorities who issued warrant for Rafsanjani
Because “making propaganda against Iran is a crime.” An update on this story. “Iran prosecutor demands arrest of Argentinian officials,” from Reuters: TEHRAN, Nov 12 (Reuters) – A top Iranian prosecutor demanded an arrest warrant be issued for Argentinian judges and prosecutors, state radio said, after Argentina demanded the arrest of Iranian officials over the […]
More from Las Vegas
Bruce Tefft, Robert Spencer, and Harvey Kushner Atlas Shrugs, whom I had the pleasure of meeting at the America’s Truth Forum symposium in Las Vegas, has some good material from that symposium, including video of some superb remarks by the incomparable Wafa Sultan (accompanied by vigorous nodding from me). Harvey Kushner doesn’t look as blurry […]
Netherlands moves toward total ban on face veils
“Netherlands moves toward total ban on Muslim veils,” by Dan Bell for The Guardian: The Netherlands may become the first European country to ban Muslim face veils after its government pledged yesterday to outlaw the wearing in public spaces of the niqab, or veil, and the burka, or full-length cloak covering the head. The Guardian […]
Islamic hip-hop artists are accused of indoctrinating young against the West
Does it occur to the pro-jihad rappers (whom Jihad Watch has most recently covered here) that there would be no rap or hip-hop without the cultural influence of the old Great Satan across the pond? Do they regard their use of it as appropriating and liquidating elements of a culture under conquest, or do they […]