Category Archives: Essays

And Yale University Press Has Run Out of Courage The craven capitulation of Yale University Press—which has excised the banal cartoons of the Muslim prophet Muhammad from Klausen’s forthcoming (and likely apologetic, if not downright warped) book on the Danish … Continue reading →

  Blogging will be light for the remainder of this global cooling summer as I attend to some of my FAVORIT, and other professional needs.   Over the summer, I will also be reading renowned Australian Professor Ian Plimer’s “Heaven and Earth: … Continue reading →

A dogmatist, “quite exceptionally impenetrable by facts.”   Michael Totten. is the classic uninformed roving Middle East reporter who consistently (and tediously) displays his profound historical and doctrinal ignorance of Islam as a badge of honor, or more aptly hubris. … Continue reading →

  Alfred E. Obama-Chavez-Nasrallah Alan Caruba and Andrew McCarthy make it eminently clear why our Manchild President (for whom Islam IS Third Worldism) is both fencepost dumb, and just plain dangerous.   Caruba’s enumeration of Obama’s burgeoning litany of idiotic decisions … Continue reading →

Guest Blog By Hillel Stavis Samuel Huntington?  Montgomery Watt?  Charles Emmanuel Dufourcq? Andrew Bostom? Are you looking for the most perspicacious source on historical Islam?  Forget about them.  Turn to Max and Dave Fleischer, the cartoonists from the 1930’s and … Continue reading →

In 1919 Sadiqeh Dolatabadi (d. 1962), pictured above, published the first women’s periodical in Isfahan called Zaban-e Zanan (The Women’s Voice) which (unsurprisingly!) faced opposition from the Mullahs in Isfahan. After ending the publication of Zaban-e Zanan in Isfahan, she … Continue reading →

Rachmaninoff’s beautiful Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini (especially the famous interlude which starts at around 3:30 in this rendition by Pletnev) has punctuated a decade long effort in my life which came to an abrupt end yesterday—a bittersweet moment, … Continue reading →

“Visionary” for The Soylent Green Revolution and His “Inspiration”   Diana West has a superb blog on Mousavi’s current “vision”—the animating “spirit” of The Soylent Green Revolution now unfolding in Iran, epitomized by the cries of “Allahu Akbar” (just in … Continue reading →

Are Iranian nukes still a concern for enthusiasts of Mousavi’s Soylent Green Revolution? If so, what better time to act?? Enthusiasts for Mousavi’s Soylent Green  Revolution might just wish to momentarily banish their delusions, and concentrate their minds by reading … Continue reading →

A Dog’s Life…and the Shiite Iranian Culture of Hate Commenting on the factional protests in Iran, anthropologist Roxanne Varzi, who is touted in a NY Times report today (6/22/09)as having analyzed the methods by which Iran’s Islamic government spreads its … Continue reading →