The Iconoclast

Wikipedia can be useful, as a first step, in finding out a little something about something in order to figure out if you want to find out about that something something more. Sometimes the content worries. And sometimes the form. I just ran across, in the entry for the Italian scholar Ranuccio Bianchi ...Read More...

  Screen shot of video of  late Islamikaze Amedy Coulibaly Source:  Imtel Center Behind the Charlie Hebdo Massacre, the martyr finale of the Kouachi Brothers   and the deadly anti-Semitic hostage standoff at the Kosher Market in Paris by Amedy Coulibaly   is a factor that the mainstream ...Read More...

Here's the proof and yes, it's all this bad. ...Read More...

January 11, 2015 Nidra Poller The latest estimate is 1.5 million marching in Paris today. We have never seen anything like it. It’s 5:20 PM as I start to write and the Place de la République is still filled with an overflow crowd that will probably never get to follow the route to the official ...Read More...

Business Standard: Al-Qaeda has provided its followers with a new "bomb recipe" with which an explosive device can be made using household goods avoiding metal components intended to evade airport security and blow up a passenger jet. The terror group's branch in Yemen, which directed Wednesday's ...Read More...

A friend in southern France, who spent decades working in Muslim countries, sent me this yesterday:    We joined the little march yesterday in the village. 500 or so people. No officials or people from the Mairie. Rather moving. All organised by le petit peuple, as opposed to the state organised ...Read More...

At MEMRI with subtitles, here. ...Read More...

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Here. The relentless intelligent alarmed-by-Islam researcher on immigration and demography Michele Tribalat notes the hypocrisy of those, Muslim and non-Muslim, who over the years kept making charges of "islamophobia" and now pretend they were always defenders of those who mock or attack Islam because ...Read More...

The man who has named squares and plazas after the worst of terrorist killers of Jews, people who could have given tuition to Colibaly, and who have killed plenty of non-Jews, too, far more than the Kouashi brothers, the man who was for decades the henchman of Yasir Arafat, the earliest and most successful ...Read More...

The Guardian: A German newspaper that reprinted the Muhammad cartoons from the French satirical paper Charlie Hebdo has been the target of an arson attack. “Rocks and then a burning object were thrown through the window,” a police spokesman said. “Two rooms on lower floors were damaged but the ...Read More...

But they got their desired headline, and now can refer to all those "Palestinians" who "stood with France," just like Mahmoud Abbas today, on the grands boulevards:   Des Palestiniens défilent en soutien Par Lefigaro.fr Publié le 11/01/2015 à 13:51     Des ...Read More...

British scholar Tom Holland found himself in a firestorm—and under threat—when he raised doubts about the traditional account of the origins of Islam. ...Read More...

  Hostages fleeing Hyper Cacher Jewish Super market  Jihadi attack in Paris 1-9-15  3PM today, a massive rally will be held  under tight security in Paris in solidarity with the 17  lives lost and  many wounded in the Jihadist attacks at satiric French weekly, Charlie Hebdo and Jewish supermarket ...Read More...

Hon.  Geert Wilders, The Freedom Party (PVV), The Netherlands   Nicolai Sennels, Danish psychologist and NER contributor of Muslims and Westerners: The Psychological Differences .. posted  on 10 News.dk,  this SUN-TV interview with Geert Wilders, Leader of the Freedom  Party (PVV) in the Netherlands ...Read More...

Late-night talk show host Bill Maher responded on Friday to the Paris terror attacks by saying, “When there’s this many bad apples, there’s something wrong with the orchard.”   ...Read More...

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From ABC Australia A bomb strapped to a girl aged about 10 years old exploded in a busy market place in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Saturday, killing at least 19 people and injuring more than 20, security sources say. The powerful explosion rocked the market at about 12:40pm (local time) ...Read More...

Poitiers/ Tours 732.  Resisting the Jihad.     ...Read More...

Here. It was bad taste, you see, for those cartoons ever to have been published, especially at this moment in history-- why, just look around Europe, look around the world --  when Muslims feel so threatened by non-Muslims. And there are even those who, Joe Sacco assures us, want to drive them, those ...Read More...

An NGO's study of what The Lancet publishes about Israel and the Arabs, and whether or not these pieces (and a letter by two antisemitic conspiracy-theorists who are admirers of David Duke) are appropriate for a publication with The Lancet's remit, has just been released, and can be read about here. ...Read More...

The Jihad, or struggle, using whatever instruments prove most effective at the time and place, to remove all obstacles to the spread of Islam,until everywhere Islam dominates, and Muslims rule, everywhere, is a duty incumbent on all Muslims. The Jihad of "pen, tongue" (propaganda), the Jihad of wealth ...Read More...

The first, by one Khaled Diab, attempts to convince us, through a series of ludicrous assertions - readers are invited to find and list them in the comments section below -- about how "Islam is in Europe's DNA" and European civilization owes so very much to the art, literature, philosophy and so on ...Read More...

Dr. Berdichevsky’s book Spanish Vignettes has been chosen by all 12 campuses of the University of California as their sole required text for the summer course on Spanish civilization. ...Read More...

As I was sitting down to write about the atrocity in France, my wife Barbara hove into view, always a delicious sight, and announced that she was writing elsewhere on the same subject and that I could not do it. So I will not, other than to say that France had to admit more than a million Algerian Muslims ...Read More...