The Iconoclast

The great Al Jazeera columnist and University of California polymath Mark LeVine (and Visiting Professor at the University of Lund) receives the tribute due him here:

Here.

Mark LeVine, a Beavis-and-Butthead kind of professor of Middle Eastern studies, who thinks music is not only sanctioned in Islam but is a sign of its sudden ability to transform […]

A story that will cheer you up. Here.

More than a decade ago, the word came down from on high that journalists should stop referring referring to black people in the United States as “black” and start calling […]

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Here. Muslims walk anywhere they want all over the world. No matter what Muslim atrocity has just taken place, anywhere in the West, and no matter how often Muslims complain […]

Washington, and American think tanks elsewhere, and American universities too, are full of bruce-riedels. They are called, because that is what they call themselves,  “terrorism experts.” They’ve made out, over […]

It is appropriate and gratifying that the Islamic terrorists who, armed with military Kalashnikov weapons in a well-planned attack, murdered 12 people, the chief editor and his staff, in the office […]

From the French edition of

So sayeth Dr. Fareed Zakaria commenting on “the twelve people murdered in Paris this week.” His conclusion is that that they were misguided souls and that Islamic regimes and organizations […]

An Iraqi hope. If Islam encouraged rational and logical thought, if Islam did not punish skeptical questioning, if the texts of Islam, and the example of Muhammad, spoke endlessly about […]

Here. And there are other  articles at this site (LibertyGB), that express an intelligent anguish, and you might want to read more than a few of them.

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The shots in the Paris street that were seen and heard around the world killed Ahmed Merabet, a Muslim policeman going to the defense of Charlie Hebdo: a reminder that […]

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