Category Archives: Essays

This essay is also posted at Pajamas Media: Conservative Free Speech Diehards—or Blowhards?   This past Friday, 1/7/11, I received a plaintive appeal on behalf of my colleague, Danish journalist and historian Lars Hedegaard, President of the Danish Free Press Society … Continue reading →

Subject of a Saudi dragnet for Zionist vultures? Tuesday (1/4/11) the Saudi Arabian newspaper Al-Weeam, claimed a vulture, “R65” tagged with the words, “Tel Aviv University,” was detained as a Mossad spy. Donning a leg bracelet and transmitter, apparently placed … Continue reading →

A previous blog of mine featured Allen West’s candid remarks about the living legacy of jihad during a forum in early 2010. Below are extracts from an interview West gave with Frank Gaffney, subsequently, after his election to Congress, this … Continue reading →

Frattini (above) and Littman: Courageous European Islamo-Realists Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini, evidencing  a moral clarity about the Islamic Middle  East nearly absent in our sorry age, has stated that European Union funds, “…should be reduced if not eliminated entirely”—the … Continue reading →

(Robert Conquest in 2006) The full essay, below, is posted at Pajamas Media Robert Conquest, the pre-eminent scholar of Soviet Communist totalitarianism, in his elucidation of Western vulnerability to totalitarian ideologies, wrote that democracy itself is, “far less a matter … Continue reading →

When it comes to criticism of Islam, and its votaries, Europe’s doctrinaire Left has engendered a ruling political class whose legally sanctioned excesses now go beyond what Orwell wrote about the (mere) vilification of critics of the Soviet system. Regarding … Continue reading →

In stark contrast to our President Manchild Who Hates the Promised Land, Netherlands PPV Leader Geert Wilders offered the following uncompromised, historically accurate support of the State of Israel, today (December 5, 2010): The world looks at the plight of … Continue reading →

“Children, what, according to the Koran, are the Jews’ main characteristics and qualities?” Fabricating (Koran 3:75; 5:64); listening to lies (5:41); disobeying Allah (5:13); disputing and quarreling (2:247); hiding the truth and supporting deception (3:78); rebelling against the prophets and … Continue reading →

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 →