Category Archives: Essays

(It’s The Little) Saint Najis?  The death of Iran’s Grand Ayatollah Hussein Ali Montazeri at age 87 on December 20, 2009 has been accompanied by decidedly hagiographic post-mortems.  But perhaps the most curious of these assessments, by Michael Rubin, includes … Continue reading →

William Happer on contemporary Climate Scientologists: “Disagreeing with them is like going to Saudi Arabia and criticizing Muhammad.” Eric Hoffer: “[A]bsolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.”  The so-called “Climate Gate” e-mail scandal simply confirms fraudulent activity masquerading as … Continue reading →

Jules Monnerot’s, 1949 “Sociologie du Communisme,” was translated into English and published as “Sociology and Psychology of Communism,” by The Beacon Press, Boston,  in 1953. Monnerot elaborated at length upon a brief, but remarkably prescient observation by Bertrand Russell, published … Continue reading →

“The problem with people in the West is they do not want to understand Islam”  “Islam by itself is radical” Important  interview yesterday (12/3/09) in Providence by Helen Glover at WHJJ, 920 AM with Wafa Sultan. http://www.920whjj.com/cc-common/mediaplayer/player.html?redir=yes&mps=helenglover.php&mid=http://a1135.g.akamai.net/f/1135/18227/1h/cchannel.download.akamai.com/18227/podcast/PROVIDENCE-RI/WHJJ-AM/helen%2012-3-09%209am%20good.mp3?CPROG=PCAST?CCOMRRMID&CPROG=RICHMEDIA&MARKET=PROVIDENCE-RI&NG_FORMAT=newstalk&NG_ID=whjj920am&OR_NEWSFORMAT=&OWNER=&SERVER_NAME=www.920whjj.com&SITE_ID=1160&STATION_ID=WHJJ-AM&TRACK=

   How Christian “Symbols,” i.e., Churches, Are Treated in Muslim Pakistan Dr. Nazir S Bhatti, President of the Pakistan Christian Congress—representing this beleaguered minority community, whose plight is pathognomonic of the brutal dhimmitude imposed upon Christian communities throughout the Muslim … Continue reading →

The venerable Brill Encyclopedia of Islam (EOI) entry on minarets makes plain that minarets are a political statement of Islamic supremacism. Interestingly, given current Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan’s provocative statement while mayor of Istanbul (the full statement was quoted in … Continue reading →

“New” Koran Translation? Meet the New Gloss ———Same As the Old Gloss! Mike Potemra brings to our attention a new Penguin translation of the Koran by Tarif Khalidi, and cites verses 2:177/178 as  examples of both “very clear contemporary English,” … Continue reading →

Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan (with his colleague, Iranian President Ahmadinejad): “There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that’s it”  During the autumn of 1843, in the heart of Istanbul, Turkey, Sir Henry Layard, the British archeologist, writer, … Continue reading →

The Washington Post has published an online gallery of the 50-slide erstwhile “medical grand rounds” given on June 27, 2007 by avowed jihadist psychiatrist Nidal Hasan. Although Hasan merely reiterates salient aspects of classical jihad theory (i.e., see slides 35, … Continue reading →

From this AP story about the devout Muslim, execution-style murderer of US soldiers and civilian personnel at Fort Hood, Nidal Malik Hassan, surviving erstwhile “martyr”: At least six months ago, Hasan came to the attention of law enforcement officials because … Continue reading →