In Human Events this morning I discuss the Pentagon’s ridiculous report on the Fort Hood jihad massacre: The Defense Department released its report Friday on the jihad massacre at Fort Hood, and it is hard to imagine a document more full of denial and deception. Above all, the Pentagon seems intent on ignoring and obfuscating […]
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Geert Wilders’s speech at his trial today
English translation: Mister Speaker, judges of the court, I would like to make use of my right to speak for a few minutes. Freedom is the most precious of all our attainments and the most vulnerable. People have devoted their lives to it and given their lives for it. Our freedom in this country is […]
Three honor killings in Pakistan
“Karo-Kari” is honor killing. “Three women slain in Shikarpur over Karo-Kari,” from The News International, January 20 (thanks to Block Ness): KHAIRPUR: Three women were killed in Shikarpur on Tuesday on the charge of Karo-Kari. Sources said Nadir Shar shot dead his wife, Sughran, in village Rakhial Shar Ji Wandh and fled the scene. Police […]
Fitzgerald: Arabia Petraea, Or General Petraeus’ Middle East (Part I)
Ever since the “surge that worked,” I’ve been wondering about General Petraeus, and even more about those Leavenworth colonels, the ones of whom so much was made as the army’s intellectuals. These were the people who, during the “surge,” discovered and used lessons offered by previously overlooked “experts” on insurgency – David Galula, in the […]
Saudi Arabia: 13-year-old girl sentenced to 90 lashes and 2 months in prison for bringing mobile phone to school
The vaunted compassion and moderation of Sharia on display again. No, wait… “Saudi girl, 13, sentenced to 90 lashes after she took a mobile phone to school,” by Mike Theodoulou for the Daily Mail, January 20 (thanks to Colin): A 13-year-old girl has been sentenced to 90 lashes and two months’ prison in Saudi Arabia […]
Report: Jihadist training camp established in northeast Bosnia
War is Deceit: “The report quoted Bosnia-Herzegovina Ministry of Security sources as saying a large number of Wahhabis moved to the region under the pretext of helping to build a mosque.” There may be a mosque involved in the plans, but that doesn’t rule out far more, after the fashion of locales such as “Islamberg.” […]
Wilders: “If expressions reflect the truth, how could they be criminal?”
A report on the Wilders trial from Evelyn Markus in the Netherlands (thanks to Pamela): Geert wants to bring in 17 witnesses, from Holland, UK, Israel, and US, among them Wafa Sultan, Robert Spencer…, Afshin Ellian, Arabist Hans Jansen, Sheikh Al-Qaradawi (who put a fatwa on Wafa), Mohammed Bouyeri (who killed Theo van Gogh) and […]
Al-Jazeera proves Wilders’ point
Check out the photo that Al-Jazeera chose to accompany its article on the Wilders trial here (thanks to Elias). Could it be that maybe Wilders is not unjustified in sounding the alarm about the Islamization of Europe when Muslims demonstrate against him holding signs saying things like “Islam will be superior,” “Islam will dominate the […]
“According to Wilders, the truth about Islam must be made known, even if it is painful and unpleasant for certain people”
Yep. The Wilders trial is a showdown for free people, and for the free West. If he is convicted, the freedom of speech will not long endure in Europe, and America will be next. And the darkness of Islamic supremacism will continue to spread, and to subjugate women and non-Muslims, without it being possible to […]
Geert Wilders: “If a politician is not allowed to criticize an ideology anymore this means that we are lost, and it will lead to the end of our freedom”
Cartoon courtesy of Bosch Fawstin. Note the standard use below of the “far-right” epithet, which is mainstream media-speak for “frightens children, barks at other people’s dogs, and makes Cratchit work on Christmas.” Nonetheless, Wilders’ argument as quoted below ought to be compelling to any reasonable member of a free society. The prosecution of Wilders is […]