Nigerian New Year, Christian Slaughter

by Raymond Ibrahim

FrontPage Magazine

The New Year’s resolution for “Sunnis for Da’wa [Islamization] and Jihad” — also known as Boko Haram, or “Western education is forbidden” — is to create a Christian-free Nigeria, beginning, naturally, with the north, where Muslims outnumber Christians. Continue reading “Nigerian New Year, Christian Slaughter”

Christmas Under Islam: Hardly a Season to be Jolly

by Raymond Ibrahim

PJ Media

Earlier I discussed how mosques, some of which breed radicalization and serve as terrorist bases, flourish in America, while churches are increasingly targeted and destroyed in the Muslim world, especially the Middle East, the cradle of Christianity. Continue reading “Christmas Under Islam: Hardly a Season to be Jolly”

Panetta’s Failure of Imagination: The Defense Secretary Gives Israel a ‘Turn of the Screw’

by Bruce S. Thronton

FrontPage Magazine

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s “chiding” of Israel, as the Washington Postput it, was a strange performance, so muddled in its ignorance of fact and logic that one wonders if the Secretary was attempting some rhetorical misdirection to lull our enemies into complacency. Continue reading “Panetta’s Failure of Imagination: The Defense Secretary Gives Israel a ‘Turn of the Screw’”

Despicable Israel Libels on Display in California Universities

by Bruce S. Thornton

FrontPage Magazine

The moral and intellectual corruption of American universities has recently manifested itself in the California State University system, the largest in the country. Continue reading “Despicable Israel Libels on Display in California Universities”

The Ancient World As It Was

by Cody Carlson

The Deseret News

Review of The End of Sparta by Victor Davis Hanson, Bloomsbury Press, 2011 Continue reading “The Ancient World As It Was”

The Shalit Defining Moment

by Victor Davis Hanson

NRO’s The Corner

The Palestinians have just shown the entire world their collective values — and the result is creepy beyond belief. Continue reading “The Shalit Defining Moment”

Destroying Churches, One at a Time: Muslim Brotherhood Wants “No More Churches”

by Raymond Ibrahim

Hudson New York

What clearer sign that Egypt is turning rabidly Islamist than the fact that hardly a week goes by without a church being destroyed, or without protesting Christians being attacked and slaughtered by the military? Continue reading “Destroying Churches, One at a Time: Muslim Brotherhood Wants “No More Churches””

Why Are Christian Girls Converting to Islam In Egypt?

by Raymond Ibrahim

Jihad Watch

Few things in Islam are as liable to provoke passion and violence as the issue of conversion. The health hazards involved in converting out of Islam — apostatizing — are well known. Continue reading “Why Are Christian Girls Converting to Islam In Egypt?”

The War against Real but Forgotten Evil

by Terry Scambray

Private Papers

A review of Moral Combat: Good and Evil in World War II, by Michael Burleigh (Harper Collins, 2011, 562 pp.) Continue reading “The War against Real but Forgotten Evil”

Snapshot of a Sick Society

by Victor Davis Hanson

National Review Online

Quite often a brief news story sums up the collective pathologies of postmodern American society. Here is a recent tragic news item from my local paper, followed by some commentary: Continue reading “Snapshot of a Sick Society”