“Before they turn to violence” — that is, even if there is no indication that they will ever be violent. “The authors acknowledge that the issue of linking violent and nonviolent extremism is contentious and steps would need to be taken to protect free speech.” That’s window dressing meant to deceive the public into complacency. […]
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The New York Times Has a Jewish Problem (Part 1)
An editor at the New York Times has recently apologized for having written several anti-Semitic and racist tweets. Tom Wright-Piersanti is a senior staff editor at the Times. In the years 2008-2010, Wright-Piersanti wrote several offensive tweets, which were uncovered by the website Breitbart. On New Years’ Day 2010, Wright-Piersanti tweeted, “I was going to […]
Muslim Arab Reparations for Black Africa
On MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” yesterday, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) called for the establishment of a commission that would “study reparation proposals.” These proposals would be “designed for those descendants of slavery. Tragically, 250 years of slavery in the United States for those enslaved Africans did not receive workman’s comp, salary, 401(k), or anything, […]
Just a Few Questions for Richard Dawkins and Sulome Anderson
Richard Dawkins, the retired Oxford evolutionary biologist, whose best-known books are The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion, is a celebrated atheist routinely critical of all religions, but is known especially for his severe criticism of Islam. He has noticed that Islam is treated with kid gloves by many of his “liberal” colleagues, who are […]
Al Jazeera Bemoans the Celebration, in Italy, of Oriana Fallaci (Part 2)
Oriana Fallaci was acutely aware of the changes being brought to Italy by those she called “the sons of Allah.” And while she was in a state of alarm about the tens of millions of Muslims who had been so foolishly allowed, as she saw it, to settle in the very midst of Europe, her […]
Israel Charged with “Deliberately Sparing the Lives of Palestinians”
The general outrage over the barring of Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar from visiting Israel, although they are both working earnestly for the destruction of the Jewish state, is crazy enough, and it calls to mind an incident from last year that was beyond crazy: A Rutgers University professor who accused Israeli forces of […]
Ivanka Trump Learns That No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
From Newsweek, which in its headline to the story includes the phrase “Trump’s Muslim ban”: Ivanka Trump was ridiculed this weekend after wishing “Eid Mubarak” to Muslims celebrating the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha. The greeting, translated as “Blessed Feast” is used as a salutation during Islam’s high holidays. Eid al-Adha, which this year runs […]
V. S. Naipaul On Islam: A Florilegium
The writer V. S. Naipaul died a year ago today, on August 11, 2018, at the age of 85. A novelist, travel writer, essayist, and historian, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001. His most important works, for me, have been the two books he devoted to studies of Islam and Muslim peoples. Among […]
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Concern About Jewish “White Supremacists” (Part 2)
Since AOC has mindlessly embraced this notion of Jews as “white supremacists,” we should ask her to take a look at the Muslim Arab record on “white supremacy,” or rather, at what celebrated Arab and Muslim figures have written about black Africans over the centuries. These include hair-raisingly contemptuous remarks about blacks by many Islamic […]
An Islamic NATO, and Other Dreams (Part 2)
Saeed Ahmad Hasan fails to understand that the Arabs’ historical memory of the Ottoman Empire makes them hostile to the Turks today. He is unaware that Saudi Arabia is the Muslim Brotherhood’s greatest enemy, while Turkey is its greatest supporter. He has a dreamy view of Turkey’s starry place in the Islamic firmament: “Turkey is […]