Extremely combative The Italian magazine Polizia e Democrazia interviewed me for their August/September 2008 issue, in which they describe me as “un neocon americano che ha raggiunto una notevole notorietà con i suoi libri (sette) e un sito estremamente combattivo aggiornato quotidianamente.” That is, “an American neocon who has gained remarkable notoriety with his books […]
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Octogenarian polygamist update
“A man with 10 wives would collapse and die, but my own power is given by Allah” More on this story. “Case of Nigerian man with 86 wives heads to criminal tribunal,” from Africasia, October 6: A Nigerian man with 86 wives will go before a criminal tribunal after an Islamic Sharia court transferred his […]
Slapstick Jihad: Act 2 ““ a total flop at the UN Human Rights Council
Comments by David G. Littman on a special Day at the UN Human Rights Council: Act 2 of “Slapstick Jihad” by Egypt’s Counsellor Amr Roshdy Hassan at the Human Rights Council (HRC) on 23 September was a total flop. He reshuffled his ad hominem deck of cards — playing at Roy W. Brown (for a […]
Fitzgerald: A simpleton appealing to other simpletons
The “conflict resolution” business comes mostly from Roger Fisher and the “Getting to Yes” boys who turned Fisher’s banalities into a well-packaged presentation. That presentation has become (and not only in Cambridge) a vast “Negotiations” or “Conflict Resolution” industry, with plenty of academic positions, and still more important, lots of opportunities to be hired as […]
84 year old man with 86 wives accused of “inciting/insulting contempt of religious creed”; 80 of his wives and children protest, “Sharia commission, leave our husband and father alone”
More on this story. “Leave Us Alone, Wives, Children of Man With 86 Wives Cry Out,” from All Africa, September 19: The travails of the 84-year old man with 86 wives seem to be borne more by outsiders than the people at the centre of the matrimonial show. Yesterday, over 80 family members of Pa […]
Virile 84 year old man arrested for not divorcing 82 of his 86 wives
First he insisted his sexual prowess was granted him by Allah, then, after the ulema told him to divorce 82 of his 86 wives, or else be put to death, he agreed. Apparently he did not live up to his word. “Preacher with 86 wives, 107 children charged under Nigeria’s Sharia laws,” from the Canadian […]
“All in all, the propaganda campaign is a shameful episode for the Fourth Estate”
So says columnist William E. Jackson, Jr., in Editor & Publisher. What’s he on about? The endless description of CAIR as a “civil rights group” in mainstream media news stories, without a hint of the terror convictions of several of its officials, or its ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas? The endless refusal of […]
Tonight I’m gonna party like it’s September 10
I was tempted this morning to pretend it was September 10. Why not? Everybody’s doing it. Polls show that fewer Americans today believe that terrorism is a threat than at any time since before 9/11. A CNN survey shows that 48% of the electorate will decide whom to vote for based on “the economy,” and […]
Fitzgerald: The Western press, Christianity, and Islam
Today, a noticeable feature of the Western press (aside from the “anti-Israel” coverage of so many of the reporters in Western Europe who have found a socially acceptable outlet for antisemitism) is the indifference to, or even hostility to, Christianity. This includes the failure to recognize its significance in the history of Europe and of […]
OIC’s “blasphemy” laws “turning freedom of expression into restriction of expression”
More on this story here and here. “Attempts to shut down criticism of Islam are still on the table at the UN,” from National Secular Society, September 5: The National Secular Society, together with the International Humanist and Ethical Union, has been working over the past year to try to raise the alarm about the […]