by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
The Never-ending Day
Like millions of Americans, I did not sleep much on the night of September 11. Continue reading “Post-9/11 -Isms and -Ologies: A Look Back at a Decade”
Tag: Anti-Semitism
What’s Off the Table in 2012?
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
What should we not expect during next summer’s presidential campaign, given what was put off limits in 2008 and later? Continue reading “What’s Off the Table in 2012?”
Ibrahim, Fighting for Free Speech
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by Jamie Glazov
FrontPage Magazine
Frontpage Interview’s guest is Raymond Ibrahim, associate director of the Middle East Forum, author of The Al Qaeda Reader, and editor of FPM’s new section on Muslim Persecution of Christians. Continue reading “Ibrahim, Fighting for Free Speech”
Christian Girls Kidnapped and ‘Sold’
by Raymond Ibrahim
FrontPageMagazine.com
Two teenage Coptic girls, cousins, were recently kidnapped and then “sold” in Minya, Egypt — the same region where a Coptic church was recentlyattacked and desecrated. Continue reading “Christian Girls Kidnapped and ‘Sold’”
Muslim Jihad in Christian Ethiopia: Lessons for the West
by Raymond Ibrahim
FrontPageMagazine.com
Not only does recent jihadist rampage against Ethiopia’s indigenous Christians highlight the travails Christians encounter wherever Islam has a sizable population, but it offers several insights, including some which should concern faraway, secular nations with Muslim minorities. According to Fox News: Continue reading “Muslim Jihad in Christian Ethiopia: Lessons for the West”
Islam’s Christian Scapegoats
by Raymond Ibrahim
FrontPageMagazine.com
After mentioning the sort of atrocities Christians in Pakistan suffer — including being killed by “blasphemy” laws, constantly “abused in public and harassed in the street by groups of Muslim youths,” ostracized and impoverished by the government — a recent Fox News report reminds us that Christian persecution is further exacerbated by anti-Americanism: Continue reading “Islam’s Christian Scapegoats”
Foreign Policy Charity Should Start at Home
Bruce S. Thornton
Advancing a Free Society
The outbreak of protests and rebellion throughout the Middle East have quickly generated an orthodox narrative: When people suffering under brutal autocrats and dictators have finally risen up to satisfy the innate human longing for freedom and democracy, we should support these aspirations on moral grounds. Continue reading “Foreign Policy Charity Should Start at Home”
Running Scared of Islam
by Bruce S. Thornton
Advancing a Free Society
One of Broadway’s big hits this season is the musical The Book of Mormon, a creation of the scatological geniuses behind the cartoon South Park. As one would expect, the show is “blasphemous, scurrilous and more foul-mouthed than David Mamet on a blue streak,” as the New York Times put it, satirizing every dimension of Mormonism from its obligatory missionary work to the planet Kolob God supposedly lived on or near. Continue reading “Running Scared of Islam”
The Secularist Delusion
by Bruce S. Thornton
Advancing a Free Society
The dubious received wisdom rationalizing our current intervention in Libya was crystallized in Senator John Kerry’s recent essay for The Wall Street Journal. For Kerry, the rebels in Libya are the same as those in Egypt, “peacefully demanding freedom and dignity.” Continue reading “The Secularist Delusion”
No ‘Revolution’ for Egypt’s Christians
by Raymond Ibrahim
FrontPageMagazine.com
On March 5, Muslims attacked, plundered, and set ablaze an ancient Coptic church in Sool, a village near Cairo, Egypt. Afterwards, throngs of Muslims gathered around the scorched building and pounded its walls down with sledge hammers — to cries of “Allahu Akbar!” Adding insult to injury, the attackersplayed “soccer” with the relic-remains of the church’s saints and martyrs and transformed the desecrated church into a mosque (a live example of history, which witnessed countless churches seized and transformed into mosques). Continue reading “No ‘Revolution’ for Egypt’s Christians”