Category Archives: Essays

Wafa Sultan: “The problem with people in the West is they do not want to understand Islam”

“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=

Pointed Islamic Hypocrisy: Religious Symbols for Thee, But Not For Me?

   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

Minarets and Islamic Supremacism

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

Potemra’s Koran—Glossed in Translation

“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

Islamism or Islam?—Islamist or Islamic?

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

Which Muslims Share Nidal Hasan’s Vision of Islam?

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

Confronting Nidal Malik Hassan’s “Martyrdom”

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

Timeless Insights for General Stanley McChrystal from Historian Edward Augustus Freeman (d. 1892)

Edward A. Freeman, a fierce 19th century opponent of jihad-imposed dhimmitude, and its Western Power abettors   Edward Augustus Freeman (1823-92), was a highly esteemed and influential British historian. Freeman was born at Harborne, in Staffordshire, and educated at Oxford, … Continue reading

Wafa Sultan: Allah’s Apostate Cassandra

A review of Wafa Sultan’s, “A God Who Hates,” St. Martin’s Press, 2009, 256 pp.   On Tuesday, October 13, 2009, an ominous interim decision was reached in the case of 17 year- old Sri Lankan native, and Christian “apostate” … Continue reading

Yale’s Post-Franz Rosenthal Islamic Studies Travesty

“Understanding has given away to apologetics pure and simple.”   From Franz Rosenthal    …to current Yale chaplain, the conspiratorial and idiotic Omer Bajwa     Two obituaries (published in the New York Times, and Yale News) from 2003 for … Continue reading