Category Archives: Essays

    Hitler, Muhammad, and their respective flocks. Cliff May deserves credit for his National Review Online column of Thursday (1/24/08) which dares to associate—however indirectly, and in the end, I am afraid, inadequately—those he terms, using layers of prophylactic rhetorical … Continue reading →

Palestinian Arab child holding Qur’an and rifle. Today (1/24/08)  at FrontPage Magazine.com, my essay “Validating Major Coughlin,” has been posted. The essay elaborates on this earlier blog.  

  Original Ronzoni pasta factory, Astoria Queens Carol Ianonne at Phi Beta Cons (1/23/08) has a clear and concise assessment of Steven Coughlin’s indispensable and irrefragable thesis “To Our Great Detriment’: Ignoring What Extremists Say about Jihad”. For further elaboration on … Continue reading →

The very courageous and forthright Dr. Tawfik Hamid has written a must read analysis in the Jerusalem Post, entitled “The development of a jihadist’s mind.” Although Dr. Hamid—a former member of the jihadist organization, al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya (Jamaah Islamiyah)— faces overwhelming … Continue reading →

Indonesian toddler following her ritual FGM Dr. Mark Durie is the author, most recently of Revelation? Do We Worship the Same God?—Jesus, Holy, Spirit, God in Christianity and Islam, 2006. His cogent analysis, “Isa, the Muslim Jesus,” is available online, … Continue reading →

Update on this blog.  One reader’s comment (which I have deleted because of basic, gross medical/surgical inaccuracies I will not share, or in any way validate) emphasized the “ritualistic” aspects of the more limited type (type 1) of FGM (Female … Continue reading →

“It’s not too late to bomb Auschwitz” was published in Hebrew translation in Makor Rishon on January 18th. It is my great privilege to reproduce it here, in English, with the author’s permission. Paris, January 16,  2008 Nidra Poller President … Continue reading →

This revealing (and terrifying) article from the London Telegraph (1/19/08) demonstrates the steadily growing employment of Islamic (Shari’a) Law in Britain’s semi-autonomous Muslim enclaves. But more importantly, it becomes clear that the “more limited” goal  of applying Sharia only to … Continue reading →

An August 1993 report in the British Medical Journal (abstracted here) on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) stated plainly, in its summary conclusions:  Female genital mutilation, also misleadingly known as female circumcision, is usually performed on girls ranging in from 1 … Continue reading →

A Scene from Our Liberated Iraqi Ally