Whatever one may think of the current congressional leadership, one had to give them credit for pushing ahead with the non-binding resolution to acknowledge one of the great crimes of history, the genocide of 1.5 million Armenians by the Turks during World War I. The shame is that it has taken so long. Now it […]
Rice calls for peace after prayer in Bethlehem
More from the Middle Eastern tour of our indomitable Secretary for Wishful Thinking. From Breitbart: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice prayed at the Biblical birthplace of Jesus Christ on Wednesday, promoting religion in the quest for Middle East peace during intense diplomacy. “Being here at the birthplace of my lord and saviour Jesus Christ […]
Eid suicide attack kills seven Afghans
Happy holidays, Taliban-style. From AFP: A suicide bomber killed seven people and wounded 29 in Afghanistan Saturday in an attack during the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr that was similar to scores of others by Taliban extremists. The attack in the town of Spin Boldak in the southern province of Kandahar came as President Hamid […]
Iran Chosen As Official Poster of Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week
By Azadeh Ensha in the Huffington Post via Yahoo!: The far right is taking its favorite catchphrase on tour. Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week is coming to a campus near you. Oh boy! According to FrontPage magazine’s David Horowitz, the event was designed to “confront the two Big Lies of the political left: that George Bush created […]
Kabul Blast Kills 5, Including G.I.
By Kirk Semple for the New York Times: KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 6 “” A suicide car bomber detonated his device next to an American military convoy on the main road leading to the Kabul airport early Saturday, killing one American serviceman and at least four civilians, American and Afghan officials said. The attack, which came […]
The Decider: All religions pray to “same God”
So, for the past several months, I (Greg) have been affirming to those unfortunate enough to find themselves in a checkout line with me or waiting at a taxi stand that, however bleak things might seem, I have detected a slight wavering of the needle in the right direction. Of course, nobody in the halls […]
Has Islamic terrorism arrived on Maldives?
By Philip Sherwell and Ben Leapman in the Telegraph: Fears have been growing in the Maldives that Islamic radicals would bring violence to the Muslim island state. There were concerns that yesterday’s bombers had deliberately targeted foreign tourists — as Islamic terrorists did on the holiday island of Bali in 2002. Despite its reputation as […]
Muzzling in the Name of Islam
Latest from the Washington [bleep]. Here is a good example of the not-completely-wrong sort of writing that does so much to cloud the issue over Islam’s fundamentally hostile and intolerant nature. Here Paul Marshall appears critical of practices in Islamic countries such as repressing speech on the grounds of blasphemy. OK. But the article gives […]
Democracy, not terror, is the engine of political Islam
I thought I would include this piece by William Dalrymple in The Guardian because, despite its general muddle-headedness, it nonetheless indicates some kind of improvement in the media’s grasp of the nature of the Islamic danger. Six years after 9/11, throughout the Muslim world political Islam is on the march; the surprise is that its […]
Bishop warns that Muslims who convert risk being killed
Islamic Tolerance alert. By Jamie Doward in The Observer: One of the Church of England’s most senior bishops is warning that people will die unless Muslim leaders in Britain speak out in defence of the right to change faith. Michael Nazir-Ali, the Bishop of Rochester, whose father converted from Islam to Christianity in Pakistan, says […]