I wanted to say something about Joe Biden’s teleconference with Jewish leaders, on September 2, just before the High Holy Days. But I then realized that very little comment was necessary. His own words – disjointed, confused, and in one of its key assertions, about a visit to the Tree of Life synagogue in […]
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Denmark: Minister impeached for separating child brides from adult Muslim migrant husbands
Støjberg was trying to rescue Muslim child abuse victims from the perpetrators of their abuse, that is, from those men who are deemed to be their “husbands” according to Islamic culture and laws which are incompatible with Western laws and values. Westerners have not been flooding to Islamic countries and demanding to live by democratic […]
Israel Tries to Lighten Burden of Palestinians In Gaza and the West Bank, Receives Only Contumely In Return
At the end of August and beginning of September, Israel did what it could to ease the lives of Palestinians both in Gaza and in the PA-run territories in the West Bank. First, it expanded the Gaza Strip’s fishing zone to 15 nautical miles – the most since 2007. Then Israel announced that many […]
Will Iran Have a Nuclear Bomb by Winter?
Not everyone is convinced that the recent meeting of Naftali Bennett with Joe Biden, despite their supposedly becoming, according to Biden, “close friends” (how “close” can that friendship be after a single meeting lasting 50 minutes?) was a success from Israel’s point of view. Former Israeli ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren expresses his […]
Jihad Through Michael Scheuer’s Eyes
CIA analyst Michael Scheuer emphasized the “overwhelming centrality of religion in all of [Osama] bin Laden’s activities” in his 2002 book Through Our Enemies’ Eyes: Osama bin Laden, Radical Islam, and the Future of America. Twenty bloody, trauma-filled years after Al Qaeda’s devastating September 11, 2001, attacks, Scheuer’s writing remains as relevant as ever, however […]
Afghan evacuees bringing their child brides into the United States
Child marriage has abundant attestation in Islamic tradition and law. Turkey’s directorate of religious affairs (Diyanet) said in January 2018 that under Islamic law, girls as young as nine can marry. “Islam has no age barrier in marriage and Muslims have no apology for those who refuse to accept this” — Ishaq Akintola, professor of Islamic Eschatology and […]
Texas: Muslim ‘inspired by a foreign terrorist organization’ murders Lyft driver, opens fire at police station
“He was inspired by the rhetoric and or/propaganda. He wasn’t directed to do this.” Police didn’t name the “foreign terrorist organization” that inspired Imran Ali Rasheed. Maybe it was some group of Congolese white supremacists that the FBI has cooked up. In the real world, however, one possibility is that Rasheed was inspired by the […]
The New and Improved Taliban? Color Me a Skeptic.
The Taliban of 2021 claim that they are not like the Taliban of the 1990s. And I believe them, in this one respect. Today’s Taliban have become skilled users of social media, and are able to project an image as a “kinder, gentler Muslim movement,” not at all like the brutal, backward terrorists of […]
Washington Must Punish Pakistan For Its Support of the Taliban
In all the attention being paid to the debacle in Afghanistan, many have overlooked the Taliban’s beginnings in Pakistan, and the loyal support from Pakistan given the terrorist group right up until today’s triumph. A report is here: “As Taliban conquer Afghanistan, time to sanction Pakistan,” by Ben Cohen, Algemeiner, August 20, 2021: As […]
Reflections on Kurt Westergaard and Sharia Speech Suppression
Among 12 caricatures of Islam’s prophet Muhammad published by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten on September 30, 2005, “it was Westergaard’s image that would change my life,” the paper’s cultural editor Flemming Rose wrote. As he detailed in his 2014 book, The Tyranny of Silence: How One Cartoon Ignited a Global Debate on the Future […]