Author Archives: Andrew Bostom

In the wake of the murderous assault on the US consulate in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Tuesday night, which killed US ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, and three other embassy officials, comes this frank eyewitness account (hat tip, … Continue reading →

The late southern Sudanese leader John Garang, in 1999, posed the following dual-part existential question for our era: Is the call for jihad against a particular people a religious right of those calling for it, or is it a human … Continue reading →

Mo’ than enough of his immoral equivalences Last night (9/2/12) I was sent (unsolicited) the video link to a conference held 3-months ago at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), entitled, “Rescuing Human Rights.” During his talk, one of … Continue reading →

Notwithstanding calls from a stubborn and distressingly ignorant gaggle of making the world safe for sharia US democratist “policymakers” for US “intervention” to establish “safe zones” in  “liberated areas” (their words) of Syria,  the internecine Muslim on Muslim fighting in … Continue reading →

Bachi bazi repulsiveness amongst our Afghan allies On May 12, 2011 a US Army “Red Team” issued an unclassified report which purported to explain the burgeoning rash of murderous attacks (which have since escalated even further, still) by Afghan National … Continue reading →

Rejecting this liberty-crushing “societal vision”: *** Reports (at “Live” wire , repeated at Salon) are quoting Kansas Republican Secretary of State Kris Kobach to the effect that the GOP platform has adopted an amendment which addresses Sharia encroachment. Kobach stated, … Continue reading →

Rick Moran blogged earlier about a report by Raymond Ibrahim regarding the possible crucifixion of opponents of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood (MB) President Mohammed Morsi. According to Ibrahim’s translation of the primary Arabic sources, critics of Morsi were beset by MB-supporting … Continue reading →

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood president Mohammed Morsi elevated Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, to defense minister, with the apparent encouragement of (rather witless) counterterrorism czar John Brennan, and other Obama administration officials. Consistent with Team Obama’s … Continue reading →

An update of this post. Andrew McCarthy just finished a magisterial presentation, which C-SPAN 3 posted immediately afterward

He did it with the Fez on He will undo it without a Fez Andrew C. McCarthy is an accomplished former federal prosecutor who convicted the infamous jihadist “Blind Sheikh” Omar Abdel Rahman for his role in orchestrating the 1993 … Continue reading →