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May 2009

May 04, 2009

Egypt’s pig farmers

As one of our commenters said, Egypt's pig farmers are all Christians, swine being unclean...

May 01, 2009

The wars of the peace candidate

Barack Obama ran as the peace candidate. But now that he is president, we are...

April 2009

April 28, 2009

The Taliban taking over Pakistan?

From an editorial in the "Washington Post" entitled Sound the Alarm: THE TALIBAN raised fears...

April 21, 2009

The Treaty of Tripoli

According to historian Susan Jacoby, when President Obama told a group of Muslims that "we...

April 07, 2009

Replacing the New Testament reading with the Quran

Rev. Kevin Thew Forrester, who has been elected bishop of Northern Michigan by the Episcopal...

April 03, 2009

UN says you can’t defame religion (especially Islam)

Mollie Hemingway at GetReligion reports on how the agency responsible for promoting human rights at...

April 03, 2009

Muslim-Christian priest defrocked

Updating what we have posted about earlier, the female priest of the Episcopal Church who...

March 2009

March 31, 2009

Obama’s War

President Obama has announced his plans to escalate the war in Afghanistan. President Obama introduced...

February 2009

February 10, 2009

Arson jihad

As Australia reels from devastating brush fires--with the death toll going over 180--an Australian paper...

January 2009

January 05, 2009

Son of Hamas leader converted to Christianity

In another unlikely-seeming example of God bringing someone to faith, Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son...

December 2008

December 29, 2008

War in Gaza

Israel attacks the Gaza Strip , as Palestinians proclaim another intifada, one they vow will...

December 16, 2008

The West can’t defeat Jihadists with secularism

According to Elizabeth Scalia of the Anchoress blog, argues that Winning This War Requires Language...

November 2008

November 28, 2008

Terrorists are back

At least two Americans--from here in Virginia--are among the 145 people killed in India by...

November 25, 2008

Mikaeel Jackson, Muslim convert

Michael Jackson 'converts to Islam and changes name to Mikaeel' : The former Jackson 5...

October 2008

October 13, 2008

Mark Steyn found innocent

In a case we have blogged about in the past, a Canadian human rights tribunal...

October 06, 2008

History restarts, as American brand fails

I enjoy reading scholars defending their theories after they have been proven wrong. In 1989,...

October 03, 2008

Iran pushes death penalty for converts

The legislature of Iran is considering a bill that would the death penalty on Muslims...

August 2008

August 22, 2008

Read what can earn you capital punishment in Egypt

Last year, the Egyptian scholar Saad Eddin Ibrahim published a column in the Washington Post...

August 18, 2008

Fasco-Islamism

Keith Pavlischek at the First Things blog notes that the affinities between Islam and Fascism...

August 12, 2008

Literary courage vs. literary cowardice

Diana West writes a telling contrast between the courage of the late Alexander Solzhenitsyn and...

July 2008

July 23, 2008

Islamic education

Anne Applebaum writes about the textbooks that Saudi Arabia uses and sends free to Islamic...

July 01, 2008

Canada is still a free country

The columnist Mark Steyn, who was hauled before a Canadian human rights commission for criticizing...

June 2008

June 30, 2008

How Islam will convert the West

Shi'ite Muslims believe in the practice of "temporary marriage" (mut`ah), in which a man can...

June 26, 2008

The military lawyers at Gitmo

One of the reason the detainees at Guantanamo are not getting convicted and punished en...

June 11, 2008

After Israel, Spain

In Islam, a country that once was Muslim must always be Muslim. Spain used to...

June 06, 2008

Columnist’s trial for insulting Islam

We have blogged on how the Canadian conservative columnist Mark Steyn has been hauled before...

May 2008

May 28, 2008

The Founders’ War on Terrorism

Here is a fascinating account of our nation's first conflict with radical Islam: When the...

April 2008

April 29, 2008

Rev. Wright takes the spotlight

Rev. Jeremiah Wright is taking advantage of his notoriety, speaking at an NAACP event, being...

April 22, 2008

Mideastern Standard Time

Some Muslim scientists and scholars are calling for Greenwich Mean Time as the longitude by...

April 16, 2008

Right-wing Europeans

Europe's right-wing scene--including its FAR right-wing scene--is undergoing some interesting changes and some new popularity....