In Human Events this morning I discuss how the latest annual report from the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) doesn’t gibe with the Obama Administration’s views of Islam and Muslim countries: Has the latest annual report from the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) caused any cognitive dissonance in Washington? […]
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Misunderstanders of Islam abounding: 10 Muslim countries among 13 worst violators of religious freedom
Recently the number of emails and Facebook messages telling me that I have gotten it all wrong, wrong, wrong, and that Islam is actually a Religion of Peace and Tolerance, has sharply increased. Someone somewhere must have called for me to be bombarded with messages about my alleged ignorance of Islam. The only problem with […]
Underwear jihadist rails against “the Jews and the Christians and their agents” in “martyrdom” video
And he cited verses from the Qur’an to justify his actions. Funny how that keeps happening. “Underwear Bomber: New Video of Training, Martyrdom Statements,” by Matthew Cole, Brian Ross, and Nasser Atta for ABC News, April 26: New videos produced by al Qaeda in Yemen show the accused underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab and others […]
Yemen on al-Awlaki: No, really, they’re working on it, but…
… they’re just waiting on the U.S. for the intel. An update on this story, in which Yemen previously claimed al-Awlaki is “just” a preacher. “Yemen says seeks cleric, yet to get U.S. intelligence,” from Reuters, April 11: DUBAI (Reuters) – Yemen said on Sunday it is trying to detain a Muslim cleric wanted dead […]
Surprise! Yemen refusing to go after jihadist cleric
He’s a preacher, not a terrorist, they say. And to a man like al-Awlaki, this distinction means what, exactly? “Yemen not going after radical US-born cleric,” from AP, April 10 (thanks to all who sent this in): SAN’A, Yemen (AP) — Yemeni forces are not going after a radical U.S.-born cleric who has reportedly been […]
Al-Qaeda’s North African wing threatens World Cup
Priorities: “How amazing could the match United States vs. Britain be when broadcasted [sic] live on air at a stadium packed with spectators when the sound of an explosion rumbles through the stands, the whole stadium is turned upside down and the number of dead bodies are in their dozens and hundreds, Allah willing.” An […]
Fitzgerald: Obama constructs a reality that does not exist
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s advisers will remove religious terms such as “Islamic extremism” from the central document outlining the U.S. national security strategy and will use the rewritten document to emphasize that the United States does not view Muslim nations through the lens of terror, counterterrorism officials said. – from this news story This […]
Obama ends three-month-old program requiring extra screening of air passengers from 13 Muslim countries
The fourteen countries were Afghanistan, Algeria, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Yemen — and Cuba. In January I wrote this about this program: “Watch for the howls from groups that pretend to be interested in American security but are in reality only interested in furthering the Islamic jihad.” […]
Do Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton know what’s going on in the Chittagong Hills? If they did, would they care?
If you visit this site every day, you know that there are three kinds of news stories related to or about Islam. There are the stories that, within a day or a week, will make it to the New York Times, and NPR, albeit in less intelligible and often tendentious form. Then there are the […]
FSU law professors to speak out against free speech
I am scheduled, despite protests and roadblocks, to speak at the Florida State University School of Law on Tuesday, March 30 at 12:30PM. And on Monday, there is this — from Facebook. Here is the whole announcement first; then I will intersperse some comments: The 1st Amendment & Professional Responsibility in a Republic! Type: Education […]