Category Archives: Essays

Mufti Habibur Rahman of Darul-Ifta, the “Fatwa Department” of Dar-ul-Uloom Deoband Indian Islam is often touted as a paragon of liberal, enlightened Islamic modernism. Pace this trope, Indian journalist par excellence Arun Shourie observed in his brilliant 1995 analysis, The … Continue reading →

The Face(book) of “Liberal” Palestinian Sharia “Secularism” We are repeatedly told—despite all evidence to the contrary—including its draft Sharia-based Constitution—that the Judea-Samaria Palestinian Authority under President Mahmoud Abbas is a “moderate” even, “secular” counterpart to the Hamas Islamic fundamentalist regime … Continue reading →

Analyst Reuel Gerecht’s confused, uninformed pieties versus Professor J.J. G. Jansen’s scholarly lucidity Analyst Reuel Mark Gerecht, in a recent New Republic essay, condemned those who “demonized” Sharia—Islamic Law—despite conceding that the application of what he refers to deferentially as … Continue reading →

The Inquisition to stamp out Islamo-Realism has an Austrian front. Please support its main victim right now, Elisabeth Sabbaditsch-Wolf, here: http://english.savefreespeech.org/ Notwithstanding the thus far unsuccessful effort by an openly biased Dutch judiciary to convict Parliamentarian Geert Wilders on scurrilous … Continue reading →

Geert Corstens, President of the Netherlands Supreme Court, maintains in Orwellian fashion that Dutch Parliamentarian leader Geert Wilders is “undermining” Dutch jurisprudence. [Hat tip Fjordman] As reported here, Critical statements on jurisprudence such as Wilders has made during the proceedings … Continue reading →

Swiss People’s Party leader Oskar Freysinger is best known for orchestrating the successful Swiss minaret ban. Ned May assiduously followed the recent Belgian travails of Mr. Freysinger who was eventually able to deliver a truly remarkable speech in the Flemish … Continue reading →

Lewis Lionized and Wilders Demonized for Expressing Identical Views on the Totalitarian Nature of Islam Our uninformed chattering classes across the political spectrum need to know that their eminence grise on Islamic civilization, Professor Bernard Lewis, and outspoken Dutch Parliamentarian … Continue reading →

Britain’s Sharia Council Avatars of Islamic Misogyny (Maulana Abu Sayeed being seated second, going from right to left) As reported in the UK Independent (10/14/10), president of the Islamic Sharia Council in Britain, Sheikh Maulana Abu Sayeed, has reiterated alarming … Continue reading →

Murad I (d. 1389), Ottoman conqueror of Sofia in 1385 A.D. The first of two recent reports by the invaluable Ned May at Gates of Vienna highlights the resurgent jihadism in the former Ottoman Muslim colony of Bulgaria. Given the … Continue reading →

(From The Annals of Rhetorical Questions) Incitement to Murder for Religion of Peaceniks Lars Vilks, Lars Hedegaard, and Rabbi Jon Hausman were interviewed yesterday (Monday, 10/5/2010) by Helen Glover of WHJJ 920 AM, Providence, about the sorry state of free … Continue reading →