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The Method to Their Madness by Ari Bussel More and more often we hear of UK- or US-born and bred who turned against their country, often in the name of Islam against the Western Devil. Many of today’s most dangerous terrorists are indeed the products of our own societies. They are not destitute, nor did they witness from early childhood abuse, poverty, rape and incest or cruelty beyond imagination. They did not grow up in repressive societies rather in places that afforded them as much freedom as the imagination can fathom. Some were educated at the best universities the West...

What hath Shariah wrought? by: Brittany Fortier, August 11, 2009 Some movies engage the mind or lift the spirit, but The Stoning Of Soraya M. touches the soul. The film tells the story of an Iranian village’s persecution of a woman named Soraya, who is falsely accused of adultery by her husband. Through the corruption of local village leaders, the husband is able to conspire against his wife by taking advantage of a system that is already rigged against her. When a journalist named Freidoune Sahebjam (Jim Cavesiel, The Passion of the Christ) comes to the village, an opportunity is...

The New York Times called it "torture porn." But audiences at the Los Angeles Film Festival had a different take; they named the controversial film "Best Feature" at the gathering. Dennis Prager writing at Townhall has some thoughts about the film and conservative complaints about Hollywood: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yet, now, released as if by Providence the week after the fraudulent elections in Iran and the suppression and murder of Iranian dissidents, is a film about the nature of the radical Muslims who govern Iran. Titled "The Stoning of Soraya M.," the film depicts events based on the true story of a...