Category Archives: Essays

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 →

The brave and perspicacious Robert (“Darth”) Spencer has two superb “exegeses” of Geert Wilder’s film Fitna which you should read in their entirety, at Pajamas Media, and Human Events. Fitna itself can also be viewed (again and again) at Google … Continue reading →

Indian journalist Kanchan Gupta (hat tip, N.S. Rajaram) admits his naivete, and makes a confessional (in a column from today’s (3/30/08) Daily Pioneer) that our “intelligentsia” in journalism (and beyond), purportedly “covering” Islam, should read, and ponder:  There was a … Continue reading →

Perhaps we’ll soon be able to tell the amir of the Saudi oil ticks to use a $53.99 aluminum rolling walker from Target? I’ll pay for it! Based upon formal technical reports such as this “Bakken Formation Reserve Estimates,” the … Continue reading →