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“We are beginning to learn some of the lessons we had to learn during the Cold War “” that to take on the opposing ideology we had to take on the extremists, but we had also to win over moderate opinion.” — from Gordon Brown in this article During the Cold War, Gordon Brown claims, […]

D’Souza begins his book thus: In this book I make a claim that will seem startling at the outset. The cultural left in this country is responsible for causing 9/11. “¦ In faulting the cultural left, I am not making the absurd accusation that this group blew up the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. […]

Any organization or group with the words “Euro” or “Mediterranean” in the title is likely to consist of manipulated or calculating deux-rivistes — that is, those who believe that the peoples of the two “rives” or banks, north and south, of the Mediterranean are not so much divided as united, or should be, by that […]

[NOTE from Robert Spencer, April 14: Greetings, Muslim Refusenik readers! What follows below is some carefully reasoned criticism of some of Irshad Manji’s positions, written respectfully by the Norwegian essayist Fjordman. It would have been refreshing if Ms. Manji had replied to the points made here, rather than simply slam Jihad Watch as “right wing.” […]

Sheikha Sajida explains it all for you at Al-Jazeera. She begins her answer by saying that the concept of jihad has been — you guessed it — “misinterpreted by the Western media,” and it just goes downhill from there. But this is a good example of how in appearing to put a good face on […]

Jordan’s King Abdullah said some time ago that “Islam honors every human being, without distinction of color, race, or religion.” So that whole business of the jizyah, the kharaj, the distinctive garb, the ban on marrying Muslim women, the ban on riding horses, the inability to have one’s testimony against Muslims be considered valid, and […]

Those who are criticizing Congressman Virgil Goode these days are engaging in moral preening, without any felt need of responsibility to study carefully both the actual contents of the belief-system too easily assumed to be a “religion” (and therefore, presumably, to be accorded the status of a Good Thing). It is assumed, furthermore, to be […]

Surely the southern Sudanese, and at least some group in Darfur, can now beg the Americans to come in, and then the Americans should promptly accede. This should be done right now, without the Americans waiting to leave Iraq. Of course, the Americans should leave Iraq, and that prompt withdrawal should be accompanied by similar […]

This article seems to be devoted to establishing that this “vision that seems to have unsettled Washington” is really nothing to be concerned about: the jihadists can’t establish a caliphate anyway, so why are we bothering to oppose them? And it is indeed unlikely in the extreme that a caliphate will be established that would […]

Don Feder is right. Here is the speech he gave to the Americans for A Safe Israel National Conference (“America And Israel — The Present Danger”) held in New York City on December 3, 2006 — and reprinted at FrontPage (news links in the original): You have a problem. It’s a problem shared by Jews […]