A Saudi New Year's Resolution
As a new year dawns it's time for Saudis to learn discipline, says the editor-in-chief of the Jeddah-based Arab News. He doesn't just mean cutting back on beer runs to Bahrain: "a part of the kind of...
View ArticleChristopher Columbus, Multicultural
Not too many years ago, I witnessed a small band of angry protesters stalking down a Manhattan street chanting, "Columbus! Did Not! Discover! America!" I remember how quickly Columbus became a symbol...
View ArticleThe Conservative Vanguard of the Feminist Movement
Feminist Katha Pollitt of The Nation blog boldly heralded last month “A Campaign to Stop Stoning” to protest the ongoing practice of stoning in the Islamic Republic of Iran, and in particular the...
View ArticleA Prayer for Freedom
Italy’s leading Muslim writer has become a Catholic. As Pope Benedict XVI baptized Magdi Allam during an Easter service at the Vatican, the glare of international publicity annoyed at least one Muslim,...
View Article2009: A year to defend free speech
Wednesday, January 21, was a black day for freedom, and the beginning of an all-out assault on free speech in the Netherlands. The Amsterdam Court of Appeals ordered the prosecution of Geert Wilders...
View ArticleA Rational Fear of Islamism
In recent months, several reports have appeared to a generally uncritical reception in the press, which purport to expose alleged conspiracies organized by “Islamophobes” against American citizens who...
View ArticleA Response to Matt Duss: Defamation by Any Other Name . . .
Indicative of Matt Duss’s dishonesty in his response to the article I co-wrote with David Horowitz about the manipulative neologism “Islamophobia” is his initial labeling of us as “anti-Muslim...
View ArticleThe Truth about Islam
Last Friday, a Bosnian Muslim named Mevlid Jasarevic walked up to the U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo with a rifle and opened fire, terrorizing the city center until he was wounded by a police sharpshooter....
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