Category Archives: Essays

Arun Shourie As the duty (to wage Jihad) is an overriding one all means are permissible. “War is stratagem, “ the Prophet says, “War is deceit.” (Sahih Muslim, Volume III, pp. 945, 990-991; Sahih Al-Bukhari, Volume 4, pp. 166-67; Sunan … Continue reading →

My colleague Diana West has another essential, trenchant analysis of the Islamic correctness—founded upon provably false, and ultimately delusional conceptions of Islamic doctrine—that underpins General Stanley McChrystal’s Afghanistan assessment. This very dangerous fool’s errand is epitomized by the General’s effort … Continue reading →

Original illustration of an Egyptian Muslim woman from Lane’s An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians   E.W. Lane wrote an informative firsthand account of life in Egypt (An Account of the Manners and Customs of … Continue reading →

Ma’ariful Qur’an by Maulana Mufti Muhammad Shafi (1898-1976), former Grand Mufti of (pre-Partition) India, and founder of Darul Ulum Karachi, is the best known Koranic commentary in Urdu. In an essay of mine published yesterday at The American Thinker focusing … Continue reading →

Father Michel Hayek (d. 2005): His frank words contextualize the threat to Rifqa Bary   Retired FBI agent John Guandolo recently eviscerated the distressingly incompetent and stupid Florida Department of Law Enforcement pseudo-investigation—fully compliant with the jihadist front CAIR’s “guidance”—of … Continue reading →

In No Hurr(i)y(ya) for Freedom?   A report  by the Afghan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU) includes these observations which echo the depressing conclusions of Western scholars of Islam recorded several decades ago in The Encyclopedia of Islam. Although utterly … Continue reading →

From This….   …To This? “drink lots of tea, eat lots of goat, get to know the people.”    Diana West has a chilling and infuriating blog about how the sheer perversity of our  “drink lots of tea, eat lots … Continue reading →

H.A.R. Gibb on D.S. Margoliouth (d. 1940) “…the criticism of other, and often less qualified, scholars seldom moved him from his convictions.” From “David Samuel Margoliouth, 1858-1940,” an obituary by the great Islamic scholar H. A. R. Gibb, published in … Continue reading →

Rifqa Bary Fled Qaradawi’s “Justice”   The legal team representing Rifqa Bary has issued an “Investigation and Intelligence Memorandum in Support of Petition for Dependency” which discusses the theology and jurisprudence of apostasy espoused by her local mosque—the Noor Islamic … Continue reading →

Coming soon….   Last evening I read a particularly illuminating anecdote from Wafa Sultan’s forthcoming book (due out October 13th), “A God Who Hates,” which provides an irrefragable counterpoint to the taqiya-mongering drivel on Rifqa Bary’s apostasy case recently spewed … Continue reading →