Category Archives: Essays

Prisoners of Islamic Jew Hatred

Dereliction of Duty: Riverdale Rabbi Avi Weiss did in effect resign when he made his feckless comments quoted by the N.Y. Daily News   Prisoners of Islamic Jew Hatred   “These were people who were eager to bring death to … Continue reading

Educating Charles Krauthammer on Hamas’ Ten Year “Truce” Offer

Suggested reading for Mr. Krauthammer and other serious journalists of his ilk   Dear Mr. Krauthammer,   I read with interest your opinion piece on Hamas’ ten year “truce” offer, “The Hamas ‘Peace’ Gambit,” published today, Friday, May 8, 2009. … Continue reading

Un-Fortuyn-ate Sons

“Well, isn’t that special,” alert.     “Geert Wilders incites hatred against Muslims, and Pim did not do that: he had sex with Moroccan boys in dark rooms.”     Three years ago (February, 2006) while attending a Memorial Conference … Continue reading

How “European Islam” Will Complete the Global Muslim Caliphate

A “You Complete Me Alert” –Bat Ye’or’s New Book Soon Available in Italian (See this Apropos Video Clip: The Dark Knight-The Joker “You Complete Me” )   Commenting to Paul Giniewski during an interview published in the journal Midstream from … Continue reading

Sultans of Swat—Muhammad’s Angels*…and More Timeless Wisdom from Lal and Burckhardt

“The future’s so bright we gotta wear shades”        (*all credit for image and blog title to Dr. Michael Schub) Pakistan’s much ballyhooed moderate Muslim President Zadari, as recently as December 8. 2008, in the wake of the … Continue reading

Jihad Piracy Redux—The Somali Pirates Ain’t Captain Hook

This Man is a Muslim Jihadist   Not like Him   Like Him     Three years ago I published a review essay on jihad piracy which focused on the then newly released, “Victory in Tripoli,”  a masterful analysis of the Barbary … Continue reading

Celebrating Mo’s Birthday in Algeria—What to Leave In, What to Leave Out

As per this classic Islamic miniature, and Yusuf al-Qaradawi’s modern sermon, “The Prophet Muhammad as a Jihad Model”     March 16th, Algerian Minister Abdelaziz Belkhadem, representing president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, inaugurated the tenth national week of the Holy Koran in … Continue reading

From The Armenian Golgotha to The Holocaust—Foreshadowing Attitudes of the German Military?

Grigoris Balakian, 1876-1934: “The German officers would often speak of us as Christian Jews and as blood sucking usurers of the Turkish people.” This past week I was privileged to receive an advance copy of the soon to be released … Continue reading

Jamie Glazov on Why The Left Actively Promotes, or Apologizes for, Totalitarian Islam

Support for Castro and Ahmadinejad: The Genocidal Harvest of Leftist Self-Loathing   In a recent blog, I described how a courageous modern “traditional liberal” politician, Geert Wilders, aptly warns of the dangers posed by the ancient, but living totalitarianism of … Continue reading

Hurgronje on Reforming Islam

“…most Muslims are absolutely ignorant of the details of the doctrine of jihad.  But so long as not one single Muslim teacher of consideration dreams of regarding these laws of the middle ages as abrogated, while a great proportion of … Continue reading