Category Archives: Essays

Robert Spencer has kindly posted the second installment based upon materials from my (imminently!) forthcoming book, The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism, this time describing the Antisemitic contents of the hadith and sira (earliest pious Muslim biographies of Muhammad.   Underneath the … Continue reading →

Bruce Stevens is a former partner of The Boston Consulting Group, where he advised several clients in the energy industry, among others. He holds an MBA from Harvard and an economics degree from Duke. Bruce Stevens writes:   Dr. Bostom … Continue reading →

  Anthony Glees: “Britain’s universities will have to generate two national cultures: one non-Muslim and largely secular, the other Muslim…We will have two identities, two sets of allegiance and two legal and political systems. This must, by the Government’s own … Continue reading →

This past Tuesday, April 8, the final corrected typeset galleys of “The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism” were sent to the printer. The first printed books should ship out to my publisher on May 16, and be available at amazon.com etc. … Continue reading →

“Is That (Causistry and Selective “Tonal” Discomfiture) All There Is?” Only at the end of his rambling riposte, does Richard Landes concede my main point (posed in a question to him: “…what would have happened, say in late 1922—the Muslim … Continue reading →

Qur’an 2:61—“And humiliation and wretchedness were stamped upon them and they were visited with wrath from Allah. That was because they disbelieved in Allah’s revelations and slew the prophets wrongfully. That was for their disobedience and transgression.” My colleague and … Continue reading →

Has Medievalist Richard Landes chosen his arguments all that wisely? Richard Landes, invoking understandably, his background as a Medievalist, with a special interest in millenarian movements—attempts a thoughtful “reconciliation” of what he attributes to be the positions of Matthias Kuntzel, … Continue reading →

Hat Tip Jihad Watch, regarding this story, “Binghamton, NY: ‘Islamberg’ to hold parade in honor of Muhammad’s birthday,” this Saturday, April 5, 2008, and With Deepest Apologies to Irving Berlin’s “Easter Parade” Lyrics!   In your Sharia bonnet with eye … Continue reading →

“You do not have to be a “self styled expert in Islam”  to see the fallacy in Kuntzel’s thesis any more than you have to be a self-styled expert in astronomy to know that the moon is not made of … Continue reading →

Kurt Westegaard got his original Bomb Muhammad cartoon removed from Fitna, and has drawn a  “tribute” to Geert Wilders (above). Diana West,  citing this NIS story alerts us to the fact that,    Wilders’ Party for Freedom (PVV) has the most … Continue reading →