Author Archives: Andrew Bostom

Saving Major Coughlin [Updated]

Click on the image to appreciate it! Update: The American Thinker has run this story today (1/15/08) as a feature article, lightly edited. Bill Gertz in his weekly “Inside the Ring” column (1/11/08) reported that “Pentagon and military leaders, along … Continue reading

Britain: “The process of ‘cleansing’ Muslim-majority areas of non-Muslims has already begun.”

From this story in The London Telegraph, 1/13/08:   David Davis, the shadow home secretary, said that the poll results showed a widespread feeling that the Government had failed. “This demonstrates that the Government’s actions, both to control immigration and … Continue reading

Judenrein Jordan’s Largest Political Party “Rejects Unequivocally” Bush’s Re-Affirmation of Israel as a Jewish State

From this story, (hat tip Jihad Watch) we learn that The Islamic Action Front—Jabhat al-‘Amal al-Islami, Arabic: جبهة العمل الإسلامي —founded in 1992, as the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan, and the largest and most influential political … Continue reading

“Revival” of Koranic Research? [Revised]

From this article in today’s (1/12/08) Wall Street Journal, “The Lost Archive”, regarding a unique photo archive of ancient manuscript iterations of the Koran, which may provide critical evidence of the evolution of the Koranic text:  Ms. Neuwirth, a professor … Continue reading

Stephen Coughlin’s Treatise on Jihad Available Online

“To Our Great Detriment” Ignoring What Extremists Say About Jihad by Stephen C. Coughlin, Esq.   Published on July 2nd, 2007 From the Summary Introduction:   In comments made at the National Defense University on 1 December 2005, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of … Continue reading

Coughlin Agonistes—Hope Springs Eternal?

Bill Gertz in his weekly “Inside the Ring” column today (1/11/08) is reporting that “Pentagon and military leaders, along with lots of working-level officials, are quietly rallying” in support of Major Stephen Coughlin (USAR), whose plight I have discussed here. … Continue reading

David Frum’s Axilla of Ignorance*

*(“Axilla of Ignorance,” coined by Ruth King) Inexplicably David Frum of the American Enterprise Institute—hardly an authority on Islamic doctrine, or history—has nevertheless lashed out—albeit inaccurately, and within the constraints of his own crude understanding—at two contemporary scholars, Bat Ye’or … Continue reading

Update on the Release of “The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism”

The amazon.com information for my forthcoming compendium on Islamic Antisemitism will be updated to reflect a more accurate—and delayed—release date.   The new date, which may be conservative, i.e., the book may be available sooner, will be April 17, 2008. … Continue reading

Eaton Agonistes, Redux?

  Bill Gertz, Washington Times national security columnist, reports (1/4/08) that the Pentagon has fired Stephen Coughlin, its most knowledgeable specialist on Islamic Law, and jihad terrorism. As Gertz observed aptly, the Pentagon thus ended the career of its most … Continue reading

Wrath of Con?

Yesterday (12/31//07) FrontPage Magazine.com published Matthias Kuntzel’s discomfiture over my review-essay on his recently published short book “Jihad and Jew Hatred,” together with a reply I wrote to Kuntzel’s statement. A correspondent who is a culture critic, accomplished author-essayist, and … Continue reading