One thing is certain: next June 16th and 17th Egypt will go back to polls to elect its first president of the post-revolution era. The candidates who will be on the ballot are the Islamist Mohammed Morsi, official candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood, and the secular Ahmed Shafiq who was the real surprise election, former
Mao’s Cultural Revolution was one of the darkest chapters of the 20th Century: communist zealots, known as “the Red Guards,” attached revolutionary messages to Buddhist statues; seventeen professors from the Shanghai Music Conservatory committed suicide; intellectuals were harassed in public trials during which they had to confess their “sins,” kneeling on makeshift rostrums; thousands of
Rushdie is perhaps the most celebrated person with an Islamic bounty on his head. He has been for decades. The man was condemned to death by Ayatollah Khomeini, without the least due process, for supposedly insulting Islam's sanctities in his book The Satanic Verses. Rushdie has been living a dreadful life for decades, mostly in
The year 1880 saw the publication of a book that ranks as the single most important study of Islam ever. Written in German by a young Jewish Hungarian scholar, Ignaz Goldziher, and bearing the nondescript title Muslim Studies (Muhammedanische Studien), it argued that the hadith, the vast body of sayings and actions attributed to the
I had the great honor and pleasure of interviewing Dutch Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders yesterday. Wilders is in the United States to mark the long-awaited publication of his book, Marked for Death: Islam's War on the West and Me, with a packed round of radio, TV and print interviews. So far, these include
A number of books published in recent years have demolished the myth of an allegedly tolerant Islamic culture that preserved the Greco-Roman heritage. Ibn Warraq’s book Why the West Is Best is among the better and more accessible titles in this field. As I concluded in one of my earlier essays, the only part of
"The following are what the holy Quran teaches, but the President Obama know not: Qur'an:9:88 "The Messenger and those who believe with him, strive hard and fight with their wealth and lives in Allah's Cause." Qur'an:9:5 "Fight and kill the disbelievers wherever you find them, take them captive, harass them, lie in wait and
As the United States considers the Islamic jihadi threats confronting it from all sides, it might do well to focus on its southern neighbor, Mexico, which has been targeted by Islamists and jihadists, who, through a number of tactics—from engaging in da'wa, converting Mexicans to Islam, to smuggling and the drug cartel, to simple extortion,
Tel Aviv University students just commemorated the “Nakba”, the "catastrophe", as the Arabs call the date of the creation of the State of Israel in 1948. Meanwhile, Israel’s officials are considering the destruction of Migron and Beit El’s Ulpana. But if we apply the ideas of “morality” and “justice” proclaimed by those who
Today is “Nakba Day,” the day in which the organization of Jews for a Second Holocaust join their Islamofascist friends in mourning Israel’s creation and existence. Being a fella with a good sense of commercial potential, I wanted to suggest that we all print up Nakba Day greeting cards and send them to tenured
