Author Archives: Andrew Bostom

Interview on Presidential “Foreign Policy Debate” with America’s Morning News

This morning (10/23/12), during an interview with John McCaslin and Dana Mills of America’s Morning News I pointed out that the final Presidential debate, ostensibly devoted to “Foreign policy,” (predictably) did not address jihadism in an intellectually honest manner—comparable, for … Continue reading

Islam, US Foreign Policy, and the Presidential Debate—Public Versus “Elite” Perceptions

Van Dyck—a US diplomat who explained jihad and Sharia, without apologetics Monday 10/22/12, the final Presidential debate of the 2012 campaign, held at Lynn University, in Boca Raton, Florida, will be devoted exclusively to foreign policy. While Osama bin Laden … Continue reading

“Sharia and Freedom”—Andrew McCarthy’s Foreword to “Sharia Versus Freedom”

Andrew McCarthy graciously wrote an elegant Foreword to Sharia Versus Freedom: The Legacy of Islamic Totalitarianism. Today National Review Online kindly reproduced an adaptation of McCarthy’s Foreward, entitled “Sharia and Freedom.” Key extracts are provided, below:   **** … To … Continue reading

Interview–Sharia versus Freedom: The Legacy of Islamic Totalitarianism

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (formerly Organization of the Islamic Conference; OIC), living embodiment of Islam’s Sharia-based Caliphate dreams, and a modern “Islamintern,” reminiscent of the 20th century Soviet Comintern. Posted at Frontpage Magazine.com Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Andrew … Continue reading

Pre-9/11/12 Benghazi Attack Pentagon Report: Al Qaeda Jihadists Significant Threat to Libya

The nonpareil national security investigative reporter Bill Gertz brings to our attention an internal 54 pp. Pentagon report obtained by the Washington Free Beacon., “AL-QAEDA IN LIBYA: A PROFILE—A Report Prepared by the Federal Research Division, Library of Congress under … Continue reading

Free Speech, Muhammad’s Character—And Ours

Mohammed (on horseback) before members of the submitting Banu Nadir, one of the Medinan Jewish tribes he aggressively  vanquished and expropriated, in a series of proto-jihad campaigns which helped establish the nascent Islamic state. From the Jami’al-Tawarikh, dated 1314-5. In … Continue reading

Obama Quote Displayed in Cairo Airport: “We must educate our children to become like young Egyptian people.”

A colleague sent me the image below from Egypt’s Cairo Airport, which had been discussed in an e-mail posted September 22, 2012, at Godfather Politics: “My husband and I just came back from the Middle East. As we arrived in … Continue reading

Ret. Marine John Bernard on Islam and Counter-insurgency Strategy in Afghanistan

Ret. Marine 1st Sgt. John Bernard, right, with his wife, Sharon and late son, Marine Lance Cpl. Joshua Bernard, at Joshua’s graduation from Marine boot camp, on Parris Island, S.C., in March 2007. USMC Ret. John Bernard participated in a press conference September … Continue reading

“Islamophobia” is a Sacralized Islamic Objective

The Muslim Brotherhood’s unabashed emblem of terror, meant to instill “Islamophobia” Fjordman reminds us today how the great contemporary Dutch scholar of Islam  Hans Jansen, has observed that the Koran, for example 8:60, the verse alluded to in the Muslim … Continue reading

Geller Agonistes—Truth in Advertising About the Jihad Against Israel

Even the NY Times seemed revolted by the glorification of the August 9, 2001 Jerusalem Sbarro Restaurant homicide bombing carnage—an act of jihad terrorism committed by Hamas—“re-created” the next month with ghoulish joy, in a Palestinian Muslim exhibit whose entrance … Continue reading