Islam and Innocence
by Raymond Ibrahim Jihad Watch Just recently, a high ranking Pakistani cleric, one Munib ur-Rehmen,asserted that “Islam does not allow anybody to take lives of innocent people by any means.”
Jumping Ship
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media This is becoming a very strange campaign. On CNN recently both David Gergen and Ed Rollins echoed the current mantra that the “old” noble McCain is gone — and a “new” nastier one has emerged, largely because of his attacks on Ayers, perhaps his planned future ads on Wright, […]
The Hammer: Saving the West at Tours in 732
by Raymond Ibrahim Jihad Watch Precisely 100 years of Islamic conquests after Muhammad’s death (632), the Muslims, starting from Arabia, found themselves in Gaul, modern day France, confronting a hitherto little known people — the Christian Franks.
Hope and Despair
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Pre-debate Anxieties The problem with bringing up Ayers and Wright and the other assorted nuts of Obama’s weird Scipionic Circle — I think the most reprehensible of the discarded associates was the rather murderous Kenyan, Raila Odinga — is that it may now be too little too late.
Not Over Yet
Reasons for hope on the first Tuesday in November. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Of course, this is a Democratic year. The public is tired of George Bush and eight years of an incumbent administration.
What Is Wisdom?
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online There is a report today (I think first offered in the Huffington Post) that David Brooks, the gifted New York Times columnist, has described Sarah Palin as a “fatal cancer” and part of a larger pernicious conservative trend:
Osama bin Laden: Man of Love?
by Raymond Ibrahim MESH (Middle East Strategy at Harvard) In many ways, Michael Scheuer is the paradigmatic case of an otherwise knowledgeable and experienced Western adult who takes al Qaeda’s word at face value.
Iraq, Round Three
by Victor Davis Hanson Policy Review A review of Moment of Truth in Iraq: How a New ‘Greatest Generation’ of American Soldiers is Turning Defeat and Disaster into Victory and Hope by Michael Yon and Tell Me How This Ends: General David Petraeus and the Search For a Way Out of Iraq by Linda Robinson.
America’s Nervous Breakdown–and The World’s
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Ancient thinkers from Thucydides to Cicero insisted that money was the real source of military power and national influence. We’ve been reminded of that classical wisdom these last three weeks.
What Al Qaeda Wants: A Debate with Michael Scheuer
by Raymond Ibrahim Jihad Watch I recently wrote something of a lengthy exposition regarding ex CIA analyst Michael Scheuer’s continuous characterizations of Osama bin Laden as at once Robin Hood, Saint Francis of Assisi, and Thomas Jefferson — that is, a man fighting oppression and tyranny, that and nothing more.
No We Can’t
The Democratic left wing has been determined to lose America’s wars. by Bruce S. Thornton City Journal Review of Party of Defeat: How Democrats and Radicals Undermined America’s War on Terror Before and After 9-11, by David Horowitz and Ben Johnson (Spence, 224 pp.)
VDH UltraAngry Reader: Germany is Better, VDH!
Private Papers Dear Julian, I reply to your letter in bold print after each paragraph. VDH
Today in History
Constantinople saves Western Civilization from Islam by Raymond Ibrahim Jihad Watch Since certain Muslim media are fond of rehashing old history, reminding Muslims of the “atrocities” committed by the hated Crusader — past and present — it seems only logical that we here in the West also remember the past.
Islam Without Apologetics
Andrew Bostom documents the long history of Muslim anti-Semitism. by Bruce S. Thornton City Journal A review of The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History, by Andrew G. Bostom (Prometheus Books, 766 pp.)
Obama’s Race Card
by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers The liberal media are in full Captain Renault mode, “shocked, shocked” to find race injected into the presidential campaign by a “Swift-boating” John McCain. How shameless can you get?
VDH UltraAngry Reader
Private Papers Victor, The ostensible cassi belli for attacking Iraq were to destroy Saddam’s WMD (nonexistent), stop his nuclear bomb development program (nonexistent), and eliminate his ties to al Qaeda (nonexistent). We can’t “win” the Iraqi war because its illusory objectives were never possible of attainment.
Al-Jazeera and History: The Fall of Acre
by Raymond Ibrahim Jihad Watch Amidst the images of suffering and slain Palestinians, Iraqis, and Afghanis, the internationally (in)famous Arabic news station al-Jazeera today had an interesting five-minute segment that it played over several times: the fall of the Muslim city of Acre (Arabic: ‘Akka’) to the Crusaders, which after a nearly two-year siege, occurred […]
Excusing Taqiyya?
by Raymond Ibrahim Jihad Watch Instead of trying to be “bold” and tackling a “controversial” topic, innate apologists would do better to simply remain silent.
Land Dispute or Jihad?
The Coptic monastery raid revisited by Raymond Ibrahim Jihad Watch Even though Dhimmi Watch admirably noted the recent attack on the Abu Fana Coptic monastery in Egypt, after just watching a graphic video detailing the affair on the Arabic satellite program Hiwar al-Haq — which makes clear that the raid (ghazwa) was far from being motivated by a “land dispute,” as […]
Religion and the Age
George Weigel gives Christian answers to the West’s most pressing questions. by Bruce S. Thornton City Journal A review of Against the Grain: Christianity and Democracy, War and Peace, by George Weigel (Crossroad, 2008, 352 pp.)