Category Archives: Essays

Stalwart Pamela Hall was caught on a remarkable video defending the New York City subway ads of the American Freedom Defense Initiative from the unhinged anti-free speech jihad of “liberal Muslim” Mona Eltahawy. Ms. Eltahawy objected to the ad depicted … Continue reading →

During his speech to the UN General Assembly yesterday (Tuesday, 9/25/12) Mr. Obama proclaimed, The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam. He rapidly cloaked this bold statement regarding Islam, alone, with a pretense of … Continue reading →

The cartoon depicted below was one of the Danish Jyllands-Posten caricatures which precipitated the 2005-2006 cartoon rage. Islam’s—and Muhammad’s—vision of Heaven has been aptly characterized by Ibn Warraq as a cosmic brothel. The Islamic Paradise for men is inhabited by … Continue reading →

Daniel Pipes, invoking Western rationalism and commonsense has made the following wise suggestion: Perhaps daily publication of the most famous Danish Muhammad cartoon [see below],  by one hopes, a steadily burgeoning number of Western bloggers and media outlets, might defuse … Continue reading →

My forthcoming book Sharia Versus Freedom, elaborates in great detail the grave threat, Sharia, Islam’s totalitarian “universal law” poses to our bedrock Western liberties—especially freedom of conscience and speech. Charlie Hebdo, the satirical French tabloid, has just published (9/19/12) a … Continue reading →

I was interviewed on America’s Morning News today, and re-stated in brief some of the arguments made in my two previous blogs, here, and here. One particular focus was John McCain’s morally and intellectually cretinous hypocrisy. The lead-in disingenuous platitudes … Continue reading →

Cover of the February 1979 issue of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood publication al-Dawa, which captures the organization’s conspiratorial hatred of even sympathetic Brotherhood historian Richard P. Mitchell, and secularism in the Muslim world, as epitomized by Turkish autocrat Kemal Ataturk … Continue reading →

September 12, 2012 Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, or “Ikhwan” published an Arabic statement (translated the next day in English here) expressing its views unabashedly on the so-called “blasphemous” Muhammad film and Cairo US embassy attack.  The statement melds Holocaust negationism with … Continue reading →

In the wake of the murderous assault on the US consulate in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Tuesday night, which killed US ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, and three other embassy officials, comes this frank eyewitness account (hat tip, … Continue reading →

The late southern Sudanese leader John Garang, in 1999, posed the following dual-part existential question for our era: Is the call for jihad against a particular people a religious right of those calling for it, or is it a human … Continue reading →