In the ongoing jihad against Egypt’s Coptic Christians one Bedouin tradition adopted by Islam keeps jihad in business. After every terrorist act, the victim is bullied into an “arbitration” hearing and the criminal courts are circumvented. No serious investigation is ever made nor any evidence gathered because the local government conducts the meeting of “reconciliation”
Of the four capitals of the ancient Roman Empire (Rome, Carthage, Alexandria, Antioch), only the first still belongs to the West. Islam has canceled out all the rest. That is why in Jihadist published material, Italy is still a target for conversion. In Isis propaganda, the black flag of the Caliphate waves over
The interview with Die Zeit is astonishing: “I feel much freer in Algeria than in France.” This shocking disclosure is from an Algerian writer who collected literary prizes in France, from the Mauriac to the Goncourt for his first novel. On January 31, 2016, Kamel Daoud published an article on the events in Cologne
Pope Francis, who is “building bridges to build peace” around the world, has naturally reached out to embrace Sunni Muslims. Last month, for the first time after years of Vatican silence, Pope Francis summoned to his private library in Rome grand imam Ahmed El-Tayeb of Cairo’s Al-Ahzar Mosque Institute. Absent a press release before this
It is ironic that a Jewish religious leader understands Europe’s disaster more clearly than the Pope. It also seems that Lord Sacks cares more about Europe’s roots than the head of Catholicism. Pope John Paul II helped to topple Communism. Benedict XVI took on the “dictatorship of relativism” and tried to re-evangelize
Trump said “Mexican Heritage,” Hilary said “German Heritage.” It’s a case of he said, she said, but,the media only attacks what he said. On the one hand, Donald Trump accuses a judge of “Mexican Heritage” of being biased against him in a legal case, and we are told by the media that
Egypt’s deep state is a bureaucratic theocracy. This network forms the infrastructure of the official government. It is accountable to the doctrines put forth by the powerful Islamic clerics of Al-Ahzar Institute. The religion of Islam, when merged with the state, can better exert Allah’s powerful hold over the individual. Only then can it fulfill
After writing that piece on Dafna Meir, a death, a murder that devastated us all, all of us with a human heart, I first turned to Psalm 31. Insisting as I did that sweeping retribution must be paid, I felt small. I came up short. Said too much. Didn’t say enough. Did I make
Europe has always ignored the Jews’ fleeing: it happened during the Holocaust, it happened after the war when the State of Israel was established and the survivors tried to reach it and it happened when the Arab-Islamic states pushed them away. It is happening again: 10,000 French Jews just left their country to find
When the subject is Israel, passions flare. In Egypt last week, a hornet’s nest of reactions surrounded Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II’s decision to go to Jerusalem upon the death of the Coptic Church’s second-in-command, Bishop Abraham, who was head of the Jerusalem and Near East Orthodox Diocese in Jerusalem since 1992. Respectful of the
