Quite a few critics of Islam say that it’s not a religion. My answer is that Islam is not a religion like other religions. But in certain respects it is similar to a religion and/or is functioning as a religion … Continue reading →
[NOTE: This is a slightly edited version of a previous post.] Chanukah began last Sunday at sundown. But since it has eight days I still get a chance to wish you a happy one—tonight and for three more days, anyway. … Continue reading →
Plenty. Please read the whole thing. It’s short. Pay particular attention to this: Kiss Our Intelligence Apparatus Goodnight. We need to work with Muslims both foreign and domestic. It’s one thing to label Islamic terrorism and radical Islam a problem. … Continue reading →
Donald Trump dominates the news cycle again. Of all the outrageous statements he’s made in the past, his call for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is … Continue reading →
[UPDATE: If you want to watch/listen to the relevant part of Lynch’s remarks, go here.] Violent threats against Muslims are Loretta Lynch’s biggest fear as a prosecutor: With terrorist attacks in Paris and a shooting spree in California prompting alarm … Continue reading →
The left’s approach is now two-pronged. To the old “never let a mass murder opportunity go to waste in promoting gun control even though it wouldn’t have prevented it” method we can add the new, agreed-on “we act in effective … Continue reading →
The current meme of the left that terrorist attacks “have nothing to do with Islam” is absurd on the face of it, an example of the tried and true Big Lie technique. And yet, as so often happens with Big … Continue reading →
A lot like the good old days: There is a sense of fear in the streets, the Belgians understand that they too are targets of terror. Jews now pray in their homes [as opposed to at synagogues] and some of … Continue reading →
Here’s a fascinating article (to me, anyway) written by a man named Teun Voeten who moved to the Molenbeek section of Brussels back in 2005 and lived there for nine years. In case you haven’t heard, Molenbeek is the area … Continue reading →
David Solway quotes Pope Benedict from 2007 (that’s not the current pope, it’s his predecessor): There is a self-hatred in the West that can be considered only as something pathological. The West attempts in a praiseworthy manner to open itself … Continue reading →
[NOTE: This is a post that originally appeared in 2008. I came across it today while responding to a comment, and I thought it worth repeating.] As a child who loved poetry, I memorized it almost without intending to. Just … Continue reading →
…for a visit, that is. And there he said a curious thing: …[T]his morning at the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility on the outskirts of Philadelphia…the pontiff spoke and met with roughly 75 inmates and their families. Slowly, he moved around the … Continue reading →