Professors Khaled Beydoun and Sahar Aziz prove why Middle East studies must be debunked and defunded. Arizona State University law professor Khaled Beydoun joined Rutgers University law professor Sahar Aziz at a Nov. 14 webinar to discuss Beydoun’s book The New Crusades: Islamophobia and the Global War on Muslims. Befitting Aziz’s long record of error-ridden analysis and Beydoun’s dubious harassment claims, […]
Gaza Teach-In Offers Fake Palestinian History
Israel has launched a “genocidal attack” on Gaza, stated Mahmoud Darwish Professor of Palestinian Studies at Brown University Beshara B. Doumani during the October 26 “Gaza in History Teach In” webinar. Jadiliyya’s second installment of the “Gaza in Context Teach-In” continued the same screeds of “genocide” and other mendacious rhetoric in a previously analyzed first […]
Georgetown professor Jonathan Brown again justifies Islam’s acceptance of slavery
“I’m not going to say that the Quran allows something evil” or that Islam’s prophet Muhammad “did something morally evil” declared Jonathan Brown, the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Chair of Islamic Studies at Georgetown University during an April 26 webinar. Brown’s zealotry highlighted his disturbing views on Islam and slavery, which caused a storm of criticism in 2017 when […]
Academics miraculously criticize the ‘Golden Age’ myth of Muslim empire
A Georgetown University panel admits that imperialism and conquest are inherently violent. “If you are looking for a Golden Age, talk to the people that have the gold. For the rest of the people, it’s probably not that golden,” said University of Colorado-Boulder religious studies professor Brian Aivars Catlos. Along with other panelists, Catlos’ discussion […]
God, Man, and Scripture (Part Two)
“Any interpretation of Scripture must therefore be incorrect if it makes us fail in our duty to love God or our neighbor” as “Augustine rightly reasoned,” notes Catholic theology professor James L. Papandrea in a new Sophia Institute Press book. His perceptive Reading Scripture Like the Early Church: Seven Insights from the Church Fathers to […]
God, Man, and Scripture (Part One)
Conflicts foreign and domestic over faith and morals wrack the modern world, as jihadists rage globally and Western sexualized secularists subvert God-given natural law, making rational interpretation of Holy Writ never more relevant. Particularly timely then is Catholic theology professor James L. Papandrea’s new Sophia Institute Press book, Reading Scripture Like the Early Church: Seven […]
Christianity and Communism in China
Catholic writer Priscilla Smith McCaffrey has published a new novella with Sophia Institute Press, Christmas Blossoms, where she tells the story of an aging Catholic Chinese artist who makes Christmas ornaments. In a tale for the whole family and all ages, she weaves together insights on Catholic faith and the often murderous history of Communist China’s dictatorship. McCaffrey […]
New Book Exposes Disordered LGBT Identities
There exists “only one sex act; it is the marital act. Any other use of our sexual faculties is a disorder and an abuse of those faculties; but it is not sex,” emphasizes Catholic theology professor John M. Haas in the forward for a new book. Hereby Catholic ex-gay leader Andrew Comiskey insightfully justifies the […]
All in the Progressive Zogby Family
“Way to go Mare!!” replied international relations analyst JC Finley to a July 12 tweet from the leftist, Israel-hating Democratic National Committee veteran James Zogby about his daughter. While Zogby senior has long railed against “Islamophobia” and offered strident apologetics for the Palestinian jihad against Israel, Mare Zogby’s lesbianism raises intriguing questions about the […]
A Conservative Life is a Happy Life in New Book
Franciscan University professor of criminal justice Charles Nemeth has published with Sophia Institute Press a new book, Finding Happiness in a Complex World: Rules from Aristotle and Aquinas. Nemeth draws from the ancient Greek philosopher and the thirteenth-century Italian Catholic saint and Doctor of the Church important lessons concerning the nature of human happiness and its ultimate source in […]