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Since the uprising in Libya began in February 2011, the United States and her Western allies have been in a conundrum. The burning question is whether or not to support the so-called “rebels” who have bravely taken up arms against the murderous and monstrous forty-two year regime of Muammar al-Gaddafi. Diplomats, military personnel, and political pundits have denigrated this resistance — and it is a resistance — as “ragtag,” “silly,” “Islamist,” “rabble” — even “al-Qaeda.” However, as the old proverb goes: “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” In the case of Gaddafi’s Libya, it doesn’t appear that the...

Since the Islamic atrocities perpetrated against the United States on September 11th 2001, a huge array of Arabic and Islamic terminology has entered the Anglo-American lexicon. With the current (and still undocumented) resident in the White House proudly affirming his Islamic heritage in Cairo and elsewhere, and the continuing prostration to the Muslims of America, is it only a matter of time before Arabic becomes the official (or secondary) language of America? And for that matter, will Islam become the de facto religion of this once great country?

Illegal African immigrants to Israel rallied in Tel Aviv on Sunday for independence in southern Sudan. More than 300 demonstrators chanted “Separation yes, unity no!” as they danced and waved black, red and green flags at Levinsky Park in the Neve Sha'anan neighborhood. The Sudanese migrants were rallying in sympathy with their brethren in southern Sudan who this week began voting in a week-long referendum on secession.

Prominent Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh is reported to have been sentenced to 11 years in jail in a case considered as part of a broader crackdown on human rights lawyers and activists in Iran. Sotoudeh's husband said she was also banned for 20 years from working as a lawyer and from leaving the country.

The Islamic Republic of Iran—which would be better known as the Islamic Occupation Regime—has for over thirty years championed itself as the “Palestinian” Arabs greatest supporters in the Islamist quest to extirpate the State of Israel from the world. Yet, while the non-Arab, Persian Shi’ite regime demonizes Israel and “Zionists” twenty four hours a day, it aligns itself with the Arab Sunni fundamentalist terror gang called Hamas, while also aligning itself with the Arab Shi’ite terrorist gang - Hizbullah - which has a strangle hold on Lebanon.

So at long last the case of the Times Square Bomber is over and we heard it straight from the camel’s mouth, that Faisal Shahzad wasn’t upset over his mortgage or angry over Obamacare—he was what he had always been, a Muslim terrorist trying to kill infidels in the name of Islam

Since the atrocities committed on 9/11/01 by Middle Eastern Muslim terrorists in the name of Islam, people in the U.S. and West have debated whether Islam is “a religion of peace” or more of an all-encompassing totalitarian ideology cloaked in religious garb.

The University of Mississippi has terminated its mascot, "Colonel Reb." The mascot, an archetypal Southern gentleman with a hat, cane, and a little bow-tie, is of course racist. Affable, bearded and jaunty, with a bright costume that cleverly foiled his dark history on the plantation, Col. Reb, when he was alive, looked rather like that other infamous slave-driver, Col. Sanders, whose inscrutable and permanent smile these days (in markets where he still shows his face) offers only a faint clue as to the fortunes he's made in his long, post-war masquerade as a peddler of fried chicken. "We just want...

The "good times" between Turkey and the West seem to be over. As the Erdogan years in Turkey have attempted to turn Turkey from a once-secular country into a de facto Islamist country, the West and Turkey seem to be on a collision course, or at best, an impasse. The questions now to ask include: What to do about an Erdogan-ruled Turkey that appears intent on reshaping the Middle East in its own Islamist and nationalist image and agenda; the response of America and the West (particularly NATO) if Turkey breaks diplomatic relations with Israel; and what how to adjust...

A national debate is raging in Germany over Muslim immigration. The issue is drawing attention not only to Germany's broken immigration system, which for many decades now has failed to integrate Germany's Muslim population, but also to Germany's demographic time bomb, which is significantly accelerating the pace of Muslim immigration.

It is an undisputed fact that democratic principles are closely linked to the will of the people almost any place where even fledgling democracies exist. Turkish citizens are able to take an active role in deciding issues that face their country. Whether the public wants to maintain the status quo or whether they want change and whether the majority of the people want change through constitutional reform and vote “yes,” the question is, “Did the majority of the electorate know what they were voting for?” Or did they just not like the military, so people wanted change? In a similar...

Iran has agreed to donate $25 million to Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in order to support Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's next election campaign, the British Daily Telegraph reported Tuesday.

.... * Is Islam really peaceful? (Hint: Surah 9 is chronologically one of the last things Muhammad said) * What is Islam’s goal? (Hint: Look up Sahih Muslim Book 041, Number 6981) * Is burning books really the right way to get this message out? * immediately followed by, what is the right way? (and if you answered “just don’t say anything”, you have unfortunately answered incorrectly.)...."

But first; does one actually exist in our country? From all appearances it would not seem that a judge who would rule fairly and constitutionally on the question of eligibility of Barack H. Obama to rule as President and Commander in Chief of our armed services can be found.

The Islamic terror attacks of September 11, 2001 did not come as a bolt out of the blue. For close to thirty years, America's record of dealing with the hydra of Islamic terror was at best abysmal. Two earlier attacks, however, and the lack of American retaliation to these attacks, might very well have paved the way for the atrocity of 9/11. These two attacks were the Iranian takeover of the American embassy in Tehran in 1979 and the bombing massacre of the Marines in Beirut in 1983.

The myth of a golden age of rational Islam plays a critical role in maintaining the somnolence of America's establishment in grasping the implacability of political jihad. Currently (see here, reviewed 9/2/10 at The National Review Online), the Mutazilites, typified by the Abbasid Muslim rulers al-Mamun (r. 813-833) and al-Mutasim (r. 833-842) are being lionized as avatars of the kind of "rationalist freethinking" which might have spared both Muslims and non-Muslims from the consequences of traditionalist Islamic irredentism. These views are a contemporary re-packaging of idealized portrayals initially put forth by Heinrich Steiner in 1865, and reiterated afterward by late...

On September 11, 2001, extremists hijacked four American airliners, crashing them into New York City's World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania. The tragedy resulted in 3,000 Americans dying. Does the above paragraph sound strange, deliberately vague, misleading (i.e., "politically correct") -- like a misrepresentation of what actually happened on that fateful Tuesday morning? If so, then for the last nine years, America -- from presidents and other politicians to Pentagon officials -- has been engaged in an exercise of obfuscation and verbal gymnastics. And, of course, the leftist establishment media (aka the "mainstream media") have willingly...