Category Archives: Essays

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 →

The Face of Islamic Women’s Rights in Post-Mubarak, Arab Spring “Liberated” Egypt My colleague Al-Mutarjim has translated comments made this week to the London-based al-Sharq al-Awsat (via the Gazan publication Donia al-Watan) by a female candidate for the Egyptian Parliament, … Continue reading →

Hamadi Jebali: Another North African Zabibah-stan Leader-in-Waiting? On the heels of their landslide election victory,  Tunisia’s Muslim Brotherhood offshoot Ennahda Party has just announced that Ennahda’s Secretary General and spokesperson, Hamadi Jebali (who, fittingly, sports a prominent Zabibah on his … Continue reading →