The Iconoclast
Moslem Saint or Sufi?
by Geoffrey Clarfield and John Robert Colombo (July 2015) Introductory note: What you are about to read is a melange: a reworking of a review that John Robert Colombo prepared of […]
Books Do Furnish A Mind, Part IV
by Ibn Warraq (July 2015) Do I boast of my omnivorousness of reading, even apart from the romances? Certainly no! never, except in joke. It’s against my theories and […]
From Scotland to Timor
by Theodore Dalrymple (July 2015) Once you have reached a certain age and experienced the majority of all that you will ever experience, almost everything reminds you of something else. It […]
Pope Francis and the Green Encyclical
by Conrad Black (July 2015) Pope Francis’s encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si’? (“Praise Be to You”), continues this pope’s tactical tour de force of disarming the Roman Catholic Church’s […]
Showing the World What It Means to Follow Jesus
by Rebecca Bynum (July 2015) In the Kingdom of Heaven there is neither Jew nor Gentile, black nor white, male nor female, slave nor master, rich nor poor, but all […]
Hazards of Hazlitt
by Theodore Dalrymple (July 2015) In a crowded train a few days ago I was reading Hazlitt preparatory to writing an essay comparing his Shakespeare criticism with that of Dr Johnson […]
An Afterword for The Cunning of History
by Richard Rubenstein (July 2015) Introductory note: In 1975, Harper & Row published the first edition of my book,
Women Beheaded by ISIS for Sorcery
Richard Spencer writes in Syria for sorcery, an extension of the punishment which is normally reserved for men. The women and their husbands were all accused of witchcraft, one couple […]
The White Widow
The White Widow sounds like a fictional character out of a J.R.R. Tolkien fantasy. Except in this case the White Widow is a deadly real person. Samantha Lewthwaite is the […]
EXCLUSIVE – Sunbed killer’s link to Britain: Tunisia massacre gunman was inspired by fanatic who ran global terror cell in London
Links between the Tunisia beach massacre and Islamist extremism in Britain can be revealed today. The fanatic who inspired gunman Seifeddine Rezgui ran a global terror network from London, a
Ivan Rioufol: At War With Radical Islam
“Radical Islam” sounds awfully close to Islam. Perhaps Rioufol means “at war with Muslims who take Islam to heart,” while those Muslims who do not take it to heart need […]
But Nobody Will Be Killed Over It
The decision by the Milwaukee Art Museum to acquire and prominently display a controversial portrait of Pope Benedict XVI fashioned from 17,000 colored condoms has created outrage among Catholics and […]
Suicide Bombing of Leprosy Hospital in Nigeria
Agence France Presse the bomber was stymied at the security checkpoint out front manned by vigilantes who have taken up arms in the fight against the ISIS-affiliated terrorist group the […]
Woman Sentenced to Death in "Personal Terror Attack" on American Woman in UAE
DUBAI—A court in the United Arab Emirates sentenced an Emirati woman to death on Monday for killing an American teacher in a rare terror attack on a Westerner in the […]
The Brotherhood Strikes Back
Egypt public prosecutor
The Lesson From Pope Francis and Queen Elizabeth II
During the last year, Pope Francis has spoken out on a number of controversial political issues, including poverty, the environment, immigration, the fate of Christian communities in Arab countries, and […]
