… the fix appears to be in. I refer to the trial of bold, valiant Geert Wilders, leader of a rising and hopeful political movement in the Netherlands, and whose free speech rights to warn his countrymen and the wider
From the Washington Post obituary: Sgt. 1st Class Lance Herman Vogeler, who grew up in Maryland, was described Monday as a leader of men, a religious man and a member of an elite Army unit. He was also a husband
In January 2009. Adm. Mike Mullen — he who failed to present and then sabotaged a non-COIN Afghan war plan for the POTUS, says Woodward — wrote that our problem in Afghanistan (after then-seven years of American sacifice to ward
Bob Woodward’s latest publishing event, “Obama’s Wars,” includes maybe the most significant scoop of his career: Directing not only Obama’s wars, but also America’s, is a veritable military junta. I exaggerate — some. Frankly, I don’t know how else to
Serious Business: A face you can trust and a book you can buy — Bob Woodward is back again with another tell-all book, indulging in that singular you-are-there chronicle that includes gestures, emotion, point-of-view, as well as a narrative bolstered
Your tax dollars at work: “In a mock Afghan village on the Quantico Marine base,” the Washington Post reports, “Sloan Mann, a military contractor, guided several Marines into a sweltering concrete room. They came to meet a fake mullah, played
From left to right: Afghan women in burqas “voting,” and British men in tea towels burning a Koran. Take a wild guess who’s striking the bigger blow for liberty — the women voting under the sharia-supreme Afghan constitution, or the
Another Sept. 11 is behind us, leaving something new and disturbing, a dark spawn to examine with plenty of careful soul-searching. That legacy begins with the reflexive, lockstep process by which an American citizen, Terry Jones, was simultaneously depicted and
Fox News, so far alone among big media (does MSNBC count?), has picked up on the absolutely outrageous and signally important Molly Norris story. Good. But notice there is NO ILLUSTRATION for viewers to look at to assess what sparked
A truly dire — if casually reported — message from an outpost of the Civilization formerly known as Western. From the Seattle Weekly: On the Advice of the FBI, Cartoonist Molly Norris Disappears From View Her work won’t be in
From the New York Daily News: The protester who burned pages from the Koran outside a planned mosque near Ground Zero has been fired from NJTransit, sources and authorities said Tuesday. Derek Fenton’s 11-year career at the agency came to
Here, via Gates of Vienna, and with subtitles by Vlad Tepes, is video of Filip Dewinter speaking against the GZ mosque on September 11, 2010 in Brussels. As usual, the socialist mayor of Brussels, Freddy Thielemans, prohibited the anti-GZ mosque
When reading stories about that formerly obscure Florida preacher behind the Quran burning controversy, bear in mind that the only law he would have broken in doing so would have been Islamic law. With this in mind, it should become
CNS.com’s Patrick Goodenough reported on activity at the OIC hive, where busy bees are attempting to use the Florida Koran incident (whether it comes off or not) as an impetus for advancing OIC plans to censor the Islam debate —
Back in 2005, Danish prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen set the gold standard on defending free speech when, on being approached by perpetually aggrieved Islamic ambassadors hoping for official redress against Jyllands Posten (Cartoon Rage was just kicking in), he
As noted in Andrew Bostom’s essay debunking the just-can’t-shake-it myth of Islamic “tolerance” in Muslim Spain, by the middle of the 8th century, the cathedral in Cordoba dedicated to Saint Vincent had been “converted” to a Muslim mosque. However, as
Abeer Mohammed is a senior local editor based in Baghdad for Institute of War and Peace Reporting. Here’s an excerpt from a post at the IWPR site about the story behind his sensational report (posted below) on how teachers in
After 9/11, Rauf co-founded the Cordoba Initiative with former Aspen, Colo., Mayor John S. Bennett, which explains why Cordoba’s tax filings list an Aspen address. During his four terms as mayor, Bennett was introduced to Alwaleed bin Talal (see Part
From a report by Paul Sperry at Worldnetdaily.com: The Saudi prince whose post-9/11 relief check was rejected by former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has found a more willing recipient in the city for his millions: the head of the
“We are Americans, each with an equal right to worship and pray where we choose,” New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said this week. “There is nowhere in the five boroughs of New York City that is off limits to
It’s never been clear what really happened on that foggy morning of April 10 when a Polish airplane crashed on a Russian runway, killing all 96 people aboard including Polish President Lech Kaczynski, cabinet ministers, military service chiefs, intelligence officials,
The title of the excerpted AP report below is “War doesn’t rest for Islam holy month.” But maybe the title should have been “Islam doesn’t rest for war” — as in doesn’t let the war stop its dawa (proselytizing), only
Stonings at Ground Zero — that’ll be the day, right? The concept has no manifestation beyond the cold sweat of a dark-hours nightmare. Still, there’s something worth gleaning from the not-so-free association process that inspired it. It clicked when I
We’ve been hearing more talk, buzz and chatter about Shariah lately than I imagined was possible. Unfortunately, much of it is still uninformed and reliant only on the emotional buoyancy of 9/11, as though the battleground of Lower Manhattan is
From the Washington Post: As the last U.S. combat troops prepare to leave Iraq this month, the State Department is struggling to implement an expanded mission that it has belatedly realized it might not be able to afford. Money isn’t
From Spiegel Online: A local Berlin politician … is under fire for inviting Dutch populist Geert Wilders to a meeting on Islam on October 2. Rene Stadtkewitz, who is known for his anti-Islamic views, has refused to cancel the invitation,
Things are moving faster than it first appeared, the rails greased by an unctuous British PM Cameron. Indeed, Turkish PM Erdogan is already declaring a “golden age” of Turkey-UK relations. You’ve heard of the Full Monty? Behold the Full Dhimmi.
Considering “the war over the war” among Republicans sparked by Michael Steele, the Hudson Institute’s Ann Marlowe argues we’re due for a belated “reckoning” on controversial if prevailing counterinsurgency policy.Writing at the Daily Beast, Marlowe, who recently completed her sixth