July 21, 2007

The Sufi 'moderate' Al-Ghazali

All Islamic scholars recognize 12th Century Sufi master, supposedly "liberal" Al-Ghazali (d.1111), to have been an orthodox Muslim. Even the late hagiographer, professor William Montgomery Watt (1909-2006), wrote that Al-Ghazali, "the ...

May 7, 2007

Moderate and Radical Muslims: the Confused PBS View

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) doesn't want Americans to learn of radical Islam's war against moderate Muslims, such as Danish Member of Parliament Naser Khader, who are trying to reform and transport to the 21st century a faith born (and for ...

April 16, 2007

The fount of modern terror

Lately, as the U.S. government leans dangerously toward talking with the Muslim Brotherhood, the umbrella terrorist organization has grabbed much front page ink at mainstream publications (like Newsweek), and of course, at internet news sites like AT...

March 16, 2007

Australia's Meathead Mufti

Far from bowing to rising clamor for his deportation, the controversial Mufti Sheikh Taj Aldin al-Hilali is taking on the political establishment. Al-Hilali outraged Australians last fall by describing women as "uncovered meat," and in January compou...

October 23, 2006

Islam's Useful Idiots

The international press cried foul on October 19 after the U.S. denied a visa to a senior Muslim Brotherhood leader. Newsweek, Reuters, ABC News, The National Interest and other media complained that the 'moderate' Muslim Association of Bri...

September 23, 2006

Iraq's Role in Terrorism

Even as the U.S. faces Iran, it's too soon to abandon Iraq Review of Death to America: The Unreported Battle of Iraq by Ryan Mauro, (PublishAmerica, Sept. 12, 2005), 313 pp., $24.95. Just after the fifth anniversary of Sept. 11----and two months fr...

March 11, 2006

The Other War

In The Other War: Israelis, Palestinians and the Struggle for Media Supremacy, veteran journalist Stephanie Gutmann provides careful documentation of the myriad ways in which the mainstream media coverage of the Middle East has been grossly compromis...

April 5, 2005

Triple-pronged Jihad -- Military, Economic and Cultural

[In a wide ranging interview with Islamic scholar Bat Ye'or comes a frank discussion of Eurabia: what it is, and what it means for Americans.� Interview by Alyssa A. Lappen] In her new book, Eurabia: The Euro--Arab Axis, Bat Ye'or takes a sweeping ...

March 4, 2005

Poetry, terror and political narcissism

Poetry is a window on the human soul. But the politics of American poetry, in recent years have veered into more and more radical territory, as an increasing number of poets openly declare their allegiance with 'Palestine,' and implicitly, with terro...