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Tawfik Hamid: Islam Should Prove It’s a Religion of Peace
The film “Fitna” by Dutch parliament member Geert Wilders has created an uproar around the world because it links violence committed by Islamists to Islam. Many commentators and politicians — including the British government, which denied him entry to the country last month — reflexively accused Mr. Wilders of inciting hatred. The question, however, is [...]
Continue reading...Christopher Hitchens: A U.N. resolution seeks to criminalize opinions that differ with the Islamic faith.
Published Wednesday, March 4, 2009 at 1:39 pm
Though it is written tongue-in-cheek in the language of human rights and of opposition to discrimination, the nonbinding U.N. Resolution 62/154, on “Combating defamation of religions,” actually seeks to extend protection not to humans but to opinions and to ideas, granting only the latter immunity from being “offended.” The preamble is jam-packed with hypocrisies that [...]
Continue reading...Mark Steyn: Jews get killed, but Muslims feel vulnerable
Published Tuesday, December 9, 2008 at 9:29 pm
Shortly after the London Tube bombings in 2005, a reader of Tim Blair, the Sydney Daily Telegraph’s columnar wag, sent him a note-perfect parody of a typical newspaper headline: “British Muslims Fear Repercussions Over Tomorrow’s Train Bombing.” Indeed. And so it goes. This time round — Bombay — it was the Associated Press that filed [...]
Continue reading...Times Online: Hardline takeover of British mosques
Published Saturday, September 8, 2007 at 9:25 am
Almost half of Britain’s mosques are under the control of a hardline Islamic sect whose leading preacher loathes Western values and has called on Muslims to “shed blood†for Allah, an investigation by The Times has found. Riyadh ul Haq, who supports armed jihad and preaches contempt for Jews, Christians and Hindus, is in line [...]
Continue reading...Reuel Marc Gerecht: What would the Democrats do?
Published Sunday, August 12, 2007 at 5:27 pm
Among certain Arab elites, there is considerable interest in how a Democratic administration would differ from the eight years of George W. Bush. It’s a good question. Most Democrats, at least those running for president or sitting in Congress, have spent more time attacking Bush than explaining what Democrats would do if they were making [...]
Continue reading...Ayaan Hirsi Ali: My View of Islam
Published Thursday, August 2, 2007 at 10:06 pm
On the issues of holy war (jihad), apostasy and the treatment of women, the Koran and Sunna are clear. It is the obligation of every Muslim to spread Islam to unbelievers first through dawa, or proselytizing, then through jihad, if the unbelievers refuse to convert. It is the obligation of the unbelievers to accept Islam. [...]
Continue reading...Dennis Prager: Why “Islamophobia” Is a Brilliant Term
Published Tuesday, July 31, 2007 at 7:10 am
What do anti-Semitism, racism and Islamophobia have in common? In fact, nothing. But according to Islamist groups, Western media and the United Nations, they have everything in common. Anti-Semites hate all Jews, racists hate all members of another race, and Islamophobes hates all Muslims. Whoever coined the term “Islamophobia” was quite shrewd. Notice the intellectual [...]
Continue reading...Christopher Hitchens: Why are we so scared of offending Muslims?
Published Monday, July 30, 2007 at 4:39 pm
Before me is a recent report that a student at Pace University in New York City has been arrested for a hate crime in consequence of an alleged dumping of the Quran. Nothing repels me more than the burning or desecration of books, and if, for example, this was a volume from a public or [...]
Continue reading...Ayaan Hirsi Ali: “You grew-up in freedom, and you can spit on freedom because you do not know what it is to not have freedom. I do.”
Published Friday, July 13, 2007 at 8:18 pm
Ayaan Hirsi Ali was a guest on a recent broadcast of On The Map, a CBC news program hosted by the nauseatingly anti-American Avi Lewis. Here we have a study in contrasts: on the one hand we have courage, grace, and gratitude, and on the other we have condescension, naiveté and cognitive dissonance. Oh, and [...]
Continue reading...Phil’s networks
Published Thursday, March 12, 2009 at 10:53 am
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