Category Archives: Essays

Regarding the “crime” of blaspheming Islam’s prophet, thus spake the Islamic Yoda of our generation, circa April, 2006: “The jurists on the whole tend to take a rather mild view of this offense.” *** Professor Carl Brockelmann (1868-1956), the renowned … Continue reading →

Update:  I  have received complaints that my earlier blog about the Monday NYPD support rally of some three dozen Muslims “misrepresented” the appearance of Imam Qayyoom. The gist of these overheated e-mail complaints is that the good Imam was an … Continue reading →

Stakelbeck on Terror Show: Islam’s War on the Jews Watch this week’s episode of the Stakelbeck on Terror show below. CBN News examines the roots of the Islamic world’s animosity toward the Jewish people. Watch as author Andrew Bostom discusses … Continue reading →

The “anti-terror” imam who wants Muhammad’s birthday to be a national holiday in America. Yesterday, Monday, March 5, 2012 a small, but  much ballyhooed rally and press conference touted as the first event of its kind held by Muslims in … Continue reading →

In 1876, U.S. consul to Turkey Horace Maynard (above) understood—and articulated—the irreconcilability between Islam’s Sharia despotism, and Christian aspirations for “..an earlier and superior title to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” *** Horace Maynard (1814-1882) was a trained … Continue reading →

(Or, How to Pray with a Muslim Prime Minister) The West is desperately in need of the wisdom and courage of diplomats such as Layard (above), and his colleagues. There is almost nothing I can add to my colleague Diana … Continue reading →

Judge Mark Martin—now infamous for presiding over the “Zombie Muhammad” case—was incorrectly identified by me as a self-professed Muslim, based upon a faulty audio recording of the court proceedings (see blogs here and here by Andrew C. McCarthy for the … Continue reading →

Are the bitter fruits of Senator John McCain’s “diligent diplomacy” a humiliating prisoner “exchange”—innocent US NGO workers, for hardened jihadists, including the notorious “Blind Sheikh” Umar ‘Abd-al-Rahman, who orchestrated the murderous 1993 World Trade Center bombing? My colleague at Translating … Continue reading →

Nonie Darwish (b. 1949) was raised a Muslim in Cairo, and educated at the American University there. She subsequently emigrated to the United States, and apostasized from Islam, before helping to create Former Muslims United. Darwish is the author of … Continue reading →

Retired detective and writer John Work has woven a potboiling, film noire parable of a yarn that may do more to educate Americans about the global jihad than anyone’s dry tome(s)…or simulacra thereof. John’s gripping and fast-paced detective-written, detective story … Continue reading →