Category Archives: Essays

My friend Hillel Stavis captured the distressing stupidity and immoral equivalence of reporter Deborah Scroggins in this 2 minute video recorded yesterday, 1-31-2012, at Porter Square Books, Cambridge, MA. Hillel is the questioner at a “reading” held to promote Scroggins’ … Continue reading →

My colleagues Phyllis Chesler and Diana West have just written two important, complementary assessments which eviscerate journalist Deborah Scroggins’ recently published, Wanted Women: Faith, Lies and the War on Terror: The Lives of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Aafia Siddiqui. Chesler … Continue reading →

In conjunction with my talk on Islamic Antisemitism at The Luxe Hotel in Los Angeles at 7:00 P.M. on Tuesday, January 24, 2012, I gave the following interview to Mark Tapson of Frontpage Magazine.com: Mark Tapson: Dr. Bostom, what inspired … Continue reading →

  This Tuesday, January 24, 2012, 7:00 P.M., I will be giving a presentation at the Luxe Hotel, in Los Angeles, sponsored by the Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, and entitled,  “Understanding the Islam in Muslim Jew-Hatred” Below is how … Continue reading →

Krauthammer: Sam [Huntington] He Is Not Last night (12/26/11) Charles Krauthammer was interviewed by Mark Steyn (guest hosting for Sean Hannity on Fox News) about the ongoing murderous jihad depredations against Christians in Islamdom. The interview began by highlighting the … Continue reading →

Michael Gerson: Preening purveyor of dangerously uninformed intellectual and moral cretinism on Sharia Former President George W. Bush’s aide Michael Gerson posted a distressingly ignorant column on 12/13/11 which attacked both former speaker and Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, and … Continue reading →

Yusuf al-Qaradawi (1926—) is a modern Muslim scholar and preacher best known for his popular Al Jazeera program “ash-Sharia wal-Hayat” (Sharia and Life), and his website Islam Online (now On Islam). He has also published some fifty books, including The … Continue reading →

Time for the annual singing of Ashoura, Lura, Lural to accompany the public images of rabid “spiritual” self-mutilation across the Holy Shiite lands. (Click below for the always moving rendition by Ayatollah Seyyid Ibn Pharteen) Ashura-Lura-Lura1_vbr And for those unfamiliar … Continue reading →

Friday February 18, 2011 marked the triumphal return to Cairo of Muslim Brotherhood “Spiritual Guide” Yusuf al-Qaradawi. After years of exile, his public re-emergence in Egypt was sanctioned by the nation’s provisional military rulers. 1 Qaradawi’s own words were accompanied … Continue reading →

Early and volatile, the Republican Presidential nomination race—at least for now—appears to be settling into a contest between consistent frontrunner Mitt Romney, and the latest surging, “non-Romney alternative”, former House Speaker, Newt Gingrich. Unfortunately the CNN/Heritage Foundation/American Enterprise televised debate … Continue reading →