Category Archives: Essays

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 →

“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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

“…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 →

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 →

  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 →

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 →