New in PJ Media: Tucker Carlson recently revealed that in an interview that never aired before he was fired from Fox, the chief of the Capitol police, Steven Sund, told him that on Jan. 6, 2021, at the Capitol, “that crowd was filled with federal agents.” Mounting evidence that Jan. 6 was anything but an “insurrection” didn’t […]
Is Donald Trump a Worse Person Than Osama bin Laden? Sam Harris Thinks So.
New in PJ Media: Trump Derangement Syndrome has afflicted a great many people over the last seven years, but no one more profoundly than the famous atheist Sam Harris, who recently repeated something he has said before, despite the astonishing intellectual dishonesty and moral myopia it displays. Donald Trump, said the renowned thinker, is “a worse person […]
Sam Harris: Trump is a worse person than Osama bin Laden, who ‘demonstrated many virtues’
Sam Harris said much the same thing back in 2020. Visceral hatred for Trump has robbed him of whatever small reservoir of decency and common sense he may still have had. Of course, Harris is making a nuanced argument here. He would dismiss as facile an observation that Osama bin Laden engineered the murder of […]
Biden is Paying Osama bin Laden’s Old Airline to Fly Out Afghans
The Taliban are getting rich from the immigration business. And we’re paying for it. Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. Ariana Afghan Airlines used to fly Al Qaeda terrorists from Afghanistan to the Middle East. As a sideline, it […]
Father Miceli’s Muslim Mirage
Late Catholic priest Vincent P. Miceli wrote in his 1981 book, The Antichrist: The Final Campaign Against the Savior, that “religious Muslims are revolting in disgust against Western—and especially American—commercialism and moral decadence.” Over 40 years later, Sophia Institute Press’ republishing of his work, which contains insightful comments on leftist evils such as the cult […]
Bin Laden wanted to replicate 9/11 jihad attacks, didn’t expect magnitude of US response to them
There were gross miscalculations on both sides. Osama bin Laden thought antiwar sentiment would be much stronger than it turned out to be, and that the U.S. government’s response to 9/11 would be much weaker. The U.S., meanwhile, along with the rest of the West, steadfastly refused to face the ideological wellsprings of the attacks, […]
UK: Muslims enraged as teacher uses picture of Osama to depict Muhammad, school suspends teacher and apologizes
The “unreserved and sincere apology” is actually a plea: please don’t bomb the place, please don’t cut off anyone’s head, as French teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded after he showed his class a picture of Muhammad. This is how Sharia adherence spreads: through fear. “Dunstable school sorry after using picture of Osama Bin Laden to […]
Islam: Wave of the Future?
“Islamism is the sole growing, developing, and truly popular populist ideology in the Middle East,” wrote House Taskforce on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare Director Yossef Bodansky in 1999. His book, Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America, documented the enduring appeal in Muslim-majority societies of Islam as a political system as opposed […]
Islam’s Religion of Power
“Religiously motivated to the extreme, Islamists usually rally around charismatic religious leaders for guidance and motivation,” wrote Yossef Bodansky in his 1999 book, Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America. Contrary to common claims that Islam means peace, this House Taskforce on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare director emphasized the role that political […]
Scholars’ Ink, Martyrs’ Blood in Afghanistan
Rice University sociology professor Craig Considine, a self-proclaimed “Islamic apologist,” likes to quote the dubious hadith that the “ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.” In his argumentation, this canonical narrative about Islam’s prophet Muhammad evinces Islam’s pacific nature, yet Muslim scholars often inspire the shedding of martyrs’ […]