Category Archives: Essays

The reverse orientation of the map above—the southern Mediterranean littoral of North Africa on top of the northern littoral of Southern Europe—corresponds to the Islamic supremacist world view of medieval Arab Muslim cartographers. This map symbolically (i.e., submissively) adorns the … Continue reading →

Anne Barnard: Reporting, or playing Wonderland croquet with herself? After reading a studious account of Imam Feisal Rauf’s Malaysian activities by my journalist colleague Alyssa Lappen, and listening to an interview of the courageous investigative reporter Steven Emerson, who has … Continue reading →

The original Visigothic Church of St. Vincent, then Mosque of Cordoba, now Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption Yesterday (Thursday 8/19/10) during the 1 PM hour CNN’s “Newsroom,” this exchange took place between CNN reporter Ali Velshi and Time … Continue reading →

The most informed and understandably passionate critics of Sharia-supremacist Imam Feisal Rauf’s proposed Ground Zero mosque are men and women such as FDNY Rescue’s Tim Brown, and 9 /11 Families for a Safe and Strong America, Debra Burlingame. Motivated by … Continue reading →

This blog is available at Big Peace, where some of my blogs will also be posted. A promo for tonight’s (Tuesday, August 17, 2010) Bill O’Reilly Show mentioned there would be an “Is It Legal?” discussion of the Taliban’s recent … Continue reading →

Professor Uriel Heyd (d. 1968) described Turkey’s tenuous secularization and aggressive re-Islamization fully 42 years before todays “learned analysts” have finally come to the same pathetically belated realization… … Since the recent Mavi Marmara flotilla affair—facilitated, and perhaps even orchestrated … Continue reading →

Ibn Warraq Defends the Western Values Barrack Obama Defiles With His Obeisance to Totalitarian Islam Obama’s Ramadan obeisance to the avatars of totalitarian Islam (i.e., the various Muslim Brotherhood fronts well represented in the White House, as Frank Gaffney aptly … Continue reading →

Imam Feisal Rauf, and (below him)  Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America cleric Katem Al-Hajj: Mama Mia “which” Sharia? Or is there a dinar’s worth of difference (a dinar being equivalent, apropos to the two clerics, to ten asses)?? Feisal … Continue reading →

Ian Johnson is the author of the recent—and very timely—book, “A Mosque in Munich,” about a cadre of ex-Soviet Muslims who created a jihadist beachhead in Germany. Following the closure of Hamburg’s “Al Quds” mosque which spawned Muhammad Atta, only … Continue reading →

Past as Prologue, 55 years ago?—Elegant statue of Muhammad “quietly” removed from the roof of the Appellate Division Courthouse on Madison Square, New York City in 1955, when seven feckless appellate judges, “encouraged” by the US State Department, needlessly submitted to … Continue reading →