Category Archives: Essays

The Wall Street Journal and Ayatollah Fadlallah’s “Disarming Twinkle”

Link to pdf of RL Pollock’s full WSJ interview/oped: Pollock_Fadlallah The “Disarming Twinkle” Defense for Jihadism and Raw Islamic Jew-Hatred? Wall Street Journal Editorial Features Editor Robert Pollock’s distressingly uninformed interview of the “spiritual” leader of Hezbollah, Ayatollah Fadlallah ignores, … Continue reading

Geert Wilders and Totalitarian Islam

  Jacob Burckhardt and Robert Conquest: Truth telling titans in the annals of Western historiography During a thoughtful, revealing interview with the Boston Globe’s Jeff Jacoby (published March 8, 2009), Dutch Parliamentarian Geert Wilders clearly unnerved the mainstream conservative journalist … Continue reading

Jamaat-e-Islami on Pakistan Airlines Beard Ban: “…a stark violation of Sunnah and an attempt to please the West.”

But Wait: New Jamaat e Islami-Approved Pakistan Airlines Male Flight Attendant Crew   See this story:   “PIA banned sporting beard to please West: Jamaat-e-Islaami”   Agencies Posted: Feb 21, 2009 at 1508 hrs   Islamabad Religious scholars of the … Continue reading

Freedom of Speech: Wilders, Orwell, and the “Koran Ban”

Geert Wilders: I propose the withdrawal of all hate speech legislation in Europe. I propose a European First Amendment. Freedom of speech is the keystone of our Western civilization, it is the keystone of our democracies and the keystone of … Continue reading

Bat Ye’or: Geert Wilders and the Fight for Europe

Second Maccabees, 7:21—“Yea, She exhorted every one of them in her own language, filled with courageous spirits, and stirring up her womanish thoughts with a manly stomach…”   Bat Ye’or, my inspiration, mentor, and dear friend has written an important … Continue reading

Updated: Geert Wilders, Islamic Law in Britain, and Zaki Badawi, The Late Lionized “Moderate” Muslim Leader

Zaki Badawi, Britain’s “Urbane,” “Moderate” Shari’a Supremacist   In the wake of Britain’s repulsive behavior towards Geert Wilders—barring his entry to speak at a House of Lords showing of his sobering, realistic film, Fitna, and demonizing him in uninformed press … Continue reading

Geert Wilders and the Mendacious Very Little Green Craven One (and His Mindless Minions)

See The Door(s): You’re Lost…Who Are You?     Over in the Lost Land of the Mendacious Very Little Green Craven One, and His Mindless Minions, there is a predictably distorted “discussion” of yesterday’s banning of Dutch Parliamentarian Geert Wilders … Continue reading

Mr. Obama, Speak First at Touro

Touro Synagogue      This morning at The American Thinker, I urge President Obama to acknowledge the contemporary plight of Jews beset by resurgent jihadism, and traditional Islamic Jew hatred—before he makes his widely ballyhooed conciliatory speech in a Muslim … Continue reading

Another Nazi Convert to Islam Who Found a Haven in Egypt: “Dr. Death,” “Uncle Tarek” Hussein Farid, Did Cairo

Dr. Aribert Heim, an SS doctor who worked at the Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen and Mauthausen concentration camps, eluded investigators for decades while living “a quiet life” in Cairo as the Muslim convert Tarek Hussein Farid, where he died in August 1992. … Continue reading

Davos Epiphany? Simple Shimon Reads Hamas Charter to Mas-Kom-Ya Erdogan, Et Al

Turkey’s Inveterate Jew-Hating Prime Minister Mas-kom-ya Erdogan Angry with “One of Those (i.e., Jews, in this case Shimon Peres) Who Have Earned Allah’s Anger (as per Koran 1:7)”   An apparent epiphany for (Simple) Shimon Peres at the Davos World … Continue reading