Category Archives: Essays

Western Freedom, James Freeman Clarke, and the Bin Laden Burial

James Freeman Clarke (1810-1888) was an American theologian, philosopher, author, and abolitionist. He also became one of the first American scholars to study and write about Eastern religions, including, notably, Islam. The extracts, below from Freeman Clarke’s “Ten Great Religions,” … Continue reading

Educating Nina Shea—What Classical and Modern Koranic Commentaries Teach About Koran 1:7

Nina Shea protests too much, and has studied too little. The Hilali-Khan “Saudi” translation of Koran 1:7—which Shea suggests somehow “distorts” the understanding of this verse—includes a detailed justification—ignored by Shea—of its references to the Jews as those who have … Continue reading

Did Naval Burial Ceremony for Bin Laden Curse Jews and Christians, and Confer Pardon and Paradise on the Muslim Mass Murderer?

Anneke Green has a disturbing analysis in the Washington Times which indicates the very likely specifics of the burial ceremony aboard the USS Carl Vinson—repeatedly noted by witless counter-terrorism czar John Brennan to be in strict “conformance to Islamic requirements”—for … Continue reading

America’s Morning News Interview About Bin Laden’s Burial and Death Photos

Today on America’s Morning News Radio Show with John McCaslin I discussed how the absurdly self-abasing burial, and the failure to release proof of death photos of Bin Laden, which the American public fully deserves, are conjoined by a unifying … Continue reading

Al-Banna, The Muslim Brotherhood, and Spring Time for Sharia in Araby

Al-Banna: How he did it with the Fez on… LTC Joe Myers has a useful Op-Ed in the Washington Times underscoring the more insidious (cultural) jihadist threat posed by the Muslim Brotherhood, relative to Al Qaeda. In follow-up to Myer’s … Continue reading

Interview on Bin Laden’s Burial and Lara Logan’s Rape

I was interviewed by Frank Gaffney on Secure Freedom Radio, Tuesday May 3, 2011, discussing the Bin Laden “ritual burial,” and the Islamic Jew-hatred associated with CBS reporter Lara Logan’s rape.

Hedegaard Show Trial in Denmark: “The real losers today are freedom of speech and Muslim women.”

I learned of the horrific “honor” murder of a 20-year-old Muslim young woman in Michigan by her pious Muslim stepfather, within a short time after receiving news of the profoundly disturbing turn of events in the Lars Hedegaard show trial … Continue reading

The Muslim Brotherhood on “Sheikh” Bin Laden’s Killing: A Re-Affirmation of Shared Goals

An English translation of the official Arabic pronouncement by the Muslim Brotherhood on Osama Bin Laden’s assassination was posted at Pajamas Media by Sami al-Abasi. The statement is a striking re-affirmation of the Brotherhood’s deep seated sympathy with the transcendant … Continue reading

Bin Laden’s Burial and Our Dhimmitude

Surprised the USS Carl-Vinson didn’t just turn itself into Bin Laden’s floating funeral pyre… A “senior defense (is that term “defense” even appropriate?) department official” describes the Muslim religious rites administered for Osama bin Laden (isn’t that grotesquely hypocritical if … Continue reading

(Updated) Dearborn, Michigan: America’s First Sharia-Compliant Muslim Enclave?

The hub of Islamic supremacism in the US—Dearborn’s Islamic Center of America…. …To which no US citizen should submit Yesterday, (4/29/11) a Muslim mob of 50, disturbingly reminiscent of their co-religionists across a vast swath of official Islamdom,  breached the … Continue reading