Category Archives: Essays

This Tuesday, 11/13/12, I will be participating in the Center for Security Policy event “Benghazi:US Foreign Policy and the Influence of Shariah Doctrine,” at the Kirby Center of Hillsdale College, Washington, DC. The event can be viewed via a live … Continue reading →

Last night (Friday 11/9/12), following up on this “book sans author cameo appearance,” I was interviewed live by Lou Dobbs of Fox Business Channel for a segment entitled, “A Look at Sharia Law” (billed thusly, Sharia Versus Freedom author Andrew … Continue reading →

This Al-Banna (Gamal) Appears Accurate (and Honest): “Most Muslims today are Salafis” UCLA Law Professor Eugene Volokh e-mailed me to raise legitimate concerns about the “representativeness” of the n=600 US Muslim sample assessed by Wenzel Strategies, during October 22 to … Continue reading →

After violent Muslim reactions to the amateurish “Innocence of Muslims” video, which simply depicted a few of the less salutary aspects of Muhammad’s biography, international and domestic Islamic agendas have openly converged with vehement calls for universal application of Islamic … Continue reading →

Diana West has posted the third installment (see also parts 1 and 2) of her uniquely incisive analysis of the late US Libyan Ambassador Stevens’ “interactions” with the jihadists of eastern Libya, their hub being Derna. Elsewhere, I have described … Continue reading →

Alyssa Lappen at Pajamas Media and Eileen Toplansky at The American Thinker have provided thoughtful reviews of Sharia Versus Freedom this weekend. Key extracts are provided below, but they are worth reading in full. From Lappen’s review: Andrew Bostom’s latest … Continue reading →

Last evening’s (10/25/12) Lou Dobb’s Tonight  featured a very frank and illuminating analysis of the morally reprehensible Benghazi fiasco by former Ambassador John Bolton, and my colleague, Andrew C. McCarthy. At the end of the candid discussion, my book, Sharia … Continue reading →

Followers of Ansar al-Sharia and other militias protest on September 21, 2012 in Benghazi The Obama administration’s wall of mendacity surrounding the murderous 9/11/12 jihadist attack on our Benghazi, Libya diplomatic compound has collapsed under an avalanche of released State … Continue reading →

This morning (10/23/12), during an interview with John McCaslin and Dana Mills of America’s Morning News I pointed out that the final Presidential debate, ostensibly devoted to “Foreign policy,” (predictably) did not address jihadism in an intellectually honest manner—comparable, for … Continue reading →

Van Dyck—a US diplomat who explained jihad and Sharia, without apologetics Monday 10/22/12, the final Presidential debate of the 2012 campaign, held at Lynn University, in Boca Raton, Florida, will be devoted exclusively to foreign policy. While Osama bin Laden … Continue reading →