The Iconoclast
The Once and Future Al-Andalus
by Hugh Fitzgerald “We will recover al-Andalus, Allah willing. Oh dear Andalus! You thought we forgot about you. I swear by Allah we have never forgotten you. No Muslim can […]
300 officers raid mosque and suspected ‘hotspot for radical Islamists’
From the German edition of Deutsche Welle Police in Lower Saxony launched a major raid on Tuesday morning on the organization “German-speaking Islamic Circle”, which officials believe to be a […]
Tennessee sues feds over refugee resettlement
Mark Hensch writes in The Tennessean said. The Tennessean said the suit argues the federal government has violated the amendment, which states it has only the powers given to it […]
Afghan father who called son ‘Jihad’ jailed for threatening to kill French judges
President Trump Needs a Dog
by G. Murphy Donovan Barack Obama era national security acolytes, now serving under Donald Trump, are not doing much to help with or clarify American foreign policy or national security […]
Modernist Architecture is Inherently Totalitarian
by Theodore Dalrymple Modernist architecture is inherently totalitarian: it brooks no other, and indeed delights to overwhelm and humiliate what went before it by size and prepotency, or by garishness […]
Good News From France: “Hate Speech” Charges Dropped Against Georges Bensoussan
by Hugh Fitzgerald Professor Georges Bensoussan of the University of Strasbourg is a celebrated French historian of the Holocaust. He is currently the lead editor at the Shoah Memorial in […]
Freed Jordanian who gunned down seven Israeli girls in 1997 unrepentant toward ‘garbage’ victims
I took the headline from the Washington Post IBDIR, JORDAN – A Jordanian soldier who killed seven Israeli schoolgirls in a 1997 shooting rampage was unrepentant after his release from […]
Met Police ‘failed’ in Tower Hamlets election fraud probe
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Why the Seattle Temple Holocaust denial Graffiti Vandalism Matters
President Trump Should Call for a Summit between US, China and Russia on Islamic Terror
The nuclear powers must cooperate to prevent conflicts from escalating By Rebecca Bynum An image from the Chechen war Last week the Chinese State Commissioner for counterterrorism and security, Cheng […]
German minister links Essen security alert to Islamic State
From ‘security source’ Germany’s interior minister said police had stopped a possible attack at a shopping center in the western city of Essen on Saturday and there were indications of […]
The Sick Man of Europe
by Gary Fouse For a country that has been trying to get into the European Union for years, the current government of Turkey under Recep Tayyip Erdogan is hardly acting like a friend to […]
Trump Advisors Were Smeared, We Can Testify to the Facts
by John Hajjar and Hossein Khorram Global Partners in Diplomacy panel featuring JD Gordon at Case Western Reserve University on July 20, 2016 As unfair partisan attacks have been targeting current […]
Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl as Scholar of the House (Part II)
by Hugh Fitzgerald Devotees of the genre know the pleasure to be derived from reading Hamid Dabashi’s eulogy to Edward Said, with its echoes, for the connoisseur, of Dzhambul’s 1936 […]
Al Capone tactic to put screws on terror suspects
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