The Iconoclast
Blade of jihad: Extremists embrace the knife as tool of terror
Paul Alster writes in youth soccer tournament named for Muhannad Halabi, who wife and two-year-old son of one in a stabbing in Jerusalem in early October. Some terrorists, killed by Israeli security […]
Oh No! You Didn’t?!
Brenda Gazzar writes in the
Jewish Lecturer Shouted Down at University of Minnesota
The campaign to prevent Jewish topics to be discussed in colleges and universities is the first attack on the first amendment. If non Jews do not recognized this, they are […]
An Interlude. For Germany, and for all Europe, in a Time of Deep Darkness. J S Bach , Cantata BWV 140, "Wachet Auf
As performed by the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir.
Four Muslims in Ohio Charged with Aiding Al-Awlaki in Yemen
Nothing to See Here Folks, Move Along
The Merced stabber, Faisel Mohammad,
FBI Caves to Muslim Pressure, Nixes Anti-Radicalization Program
From victory statement saying the website improperly characterized Muslims as a suspect community with targeted focus and stereotypical depictions that could exasperate the problem by leading to bullying, bias and […]
Our Appetite for Psychological Banality
The Reverend Thomas Malthus was an English clergyman at the end of the 18th Century and the beginning of the 19th Century who put forward an idea that was to have […]
ISIS Bombing of Metrojet Flight 9268 poses a Global Airline Security Threat
British Academics Need Healing
The United Kingdom has many attractions, Wimbledon, strawberries and cream, and political parties that talk to each other. What a pity that it also has far too many self-righteousness and […]
The English Show their Sense of Justice
Facebook and the internet are certainly bringing the intrinsic decency and sense of fair play of the British into prominence, as well as their refined use of language. In […]
Dudley Council defeats Dudley Muslim Association’s court challenge over Hall Street mosque land
A nice bit of earlier than expected good news from the
The News We’ve Been Waiting For: Merced Knife Attacker was Faisal Mohammed
I don’t know why they waited several days to release the name, but we have it now. Your suspicians were correct. Attacker “smiled” as he slashed victims at UC Merced […]
The Enemy is ISIS
A specter, that has taken material form, is haunting the world, the specter of Islamic terrorism, embodied by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS or Daesh in […]
Are Killers Ordinary Men?
The nearest large town to where I live when I am in France is called Alès. Having once been a centre of coal-mining, it is not very beautiful, unlike most […]
The Presidential Campaign and America’s Public Emptiness
Once upon a time, Ralph Waldo Emerson called sensibly upon Americans to embrace “plain living and high thinking.” Conspicuously, this earlier call for an enhanced personal and social equilibrium has […]
