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December 2009

December 30, 2009

Underwear bomber planners were Gitmo alums

ABC reports that al Qaeda Leaders Behind Terror Plot Were Released by U.S.: Two of...

December 30, 2009

War in Yemen?

It seems that Al Qaeda's base of operations is now Yemen, not Afghanistan. That country...

December 29, 2009

The Underwear Bomber

We have had the Shoe Bomber. Now we have the Underwear Bomber. The jihadist from...

December 28, 2009

Security breakdown with Detroit bomber

So we now know that the Nigerian who tried to blow up an airliner as...

December 02, 2009

A surge but then a timetable to leave

President Obama has made his decision on the war in Afghanistan: US President Barack Obama...

November 2009

November 19, 2009

How to defend Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

Attorney Dan Miller takes up the question How Hard Will It Be to Convict Khalid...

November 16, 2009

9/11 planners to be tried in New York

The mastermind of the September 11 attacks, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, as well as four of...

November 12, 2009

Maj. Hasan’s jihadism was out in the open

So Maj. Nidal M. Hasan, M.D., who killed 13 human beings at Ft. Hood, carried...

November 06, 2009

Massacre at Fort Hood

A gunman who was an army officer and a medical doctor opened fire at Ft....

November 04, 2009

Crucifixion today

This report reminds us that Saudi Arabia still crucifies people, though it's not quite crucifixion...

November 03, 2009

Muhammad: The Movie

In the "you don't know what you are getting into" department, one of the producers...

October 2009

October 29, 2009

The marine who resigned over Afghanistan

Former Marine captain and Iraq war veteran Michael Hoh took a job in the foreign...

October 23, 2009

Coptic Christians and their tattoos

I never understood tattoos. For Coptic Christians in Egypt, though, a tattoo is an indelible...

October 20, 2009

Parental rights vs. religious freedom

What do you think about the Ohio teenager who became a Christian and later fled...

September 2009

September 29, 2009

A cold war against God?

Boston University professor Andrew J. Bacevich argues in the Washington Post that we should abandon...

September 11, 2009

Another 9/11

We should always honor the victims and the heroes who gave their lives on this...

September 02, 2009

Conservatives as the new peaceniks?

The conservative pundit George Will is calling for American troops to be withdrawn from Afghanistan:...

August 2009

August 26, 2009

Emerging church leader is observing Ramadan

Bryan McLaren, leading figure of the "emerging church" movement, is observing the Muslim month of...

August 18, 2009

Yale Univ. Press censors cartoons of Muhammed

. . .even though the book it is publishing is about the cartoons! The author...

August 12, 2009

Mass trials in Iran

Iran is putting the election protesters on trial 100 at a time. The government admits...

July 2009

July 30, 2009

Which would secularists rather have, Christianity or Islam?

Peter Hitchens is a Christian, but his brother Christopher is a militant atheist, author of...

June 2009

June 30, 2009

Other dictatorships are censoring news from Iran

China, Cuba, Burma, and other authoritarian regimes are censoring news of the Iranian uprisings, lest...

June 29, 2009

Iran uprisings mark the end of jihadism?

Joshua Muravchik believes that the uprisings in Iran will mark the beginning of the end...

June 15, 2009

Failure of wishful thinking in Iran

I had been reading a number of articles--like this one and this one--saying that Iran's...

June 08, 2009

Saudis go to the movies

People in Saudi Arabia's capital went to the movies for the first time in thirty...

June 05, 2009

Jihadists in American prisons

Why we shouldn't send Guantanamo prisoners into American jails. From Michelle Malkin » The jihadi...

June 04, 2009

A tale of two murders

Michelle Malkin contrasts the media and governmental treatment of the anti-abortion murder and that jihadist...

June 03, 2009

The USA, one of the largest Muslim countries in the world

President Obama is courting Muslims during his middle eastern trip, including a major speech today...

May 2009

May 25, 2009

Outbreaks of peace

We and the whole world should be thankful in Sri Lanka that the ultra-bloody separatist...

May 14, 2009

Would-be papal assassin is converting to Christianity

Mehmet Ali Agca, who shot Pope John Paul II, is converting from Islam to Christianity....