The Ground Zero Mosque

With a wink, Yasser Arafat referred to the “Quraysh Model” in a speech he gave in Arabic to a Palestinian audience shortly after he signed Clinton’s vaunted Oslo Peace Accords and shortly before he issued yet another bloody intifada. He was referring to a ten-year treaty that Mohammad had signed with the Quraysh tribe who [...]

By | 2017-02-28T07:31:17-08:00 August 20th, 2010|Disarming America, Islam and the West|Comments Off on The Ground Zero Mosque

Islamist Infiltration

UPDATE: August 2, 2010 This article has been posted online at Townhall Magazine. It was first published in the May 2010 print issue. I welcome your comments here also. Original article in Townhall Magazine (pdf) In A.D. 622, Muhammad was forced to flee to Medina from his birthplace in Mecca, where the ruling tribe, the [...]

By | 2017-02-28T07:31:18-08:00 May 1st, 2010|Islam and the West, Resurgent Islam, Townhall Magazine|Comments Off on Islamist Infiltration

We’re All Infidels Now

Original Article in Townhall Magazine (pdf) In the spring of 1945, when a liberated survivor of a World War II Nazi death camp was asked what he had learned from his ordeal, he replied, “When someone says he wants to kill you, believe him.” During the holocaust, in what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has [...]

By | 2017-02-28T07:31:18-08:00 November 1st, 2009|Islam Women, Nuclear Iran, Townhall Magazine|Comments Off on We’re All Infidels Now

Iran: Enemy No 1

Original article in Townhall Magazine (pdf) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his masters, the ruling mullahs of Iran, continue to threaten the United States and the rest of the West, as well as their own people. Who are they, and how can they be stopped? During the decade of the 150s B.C., Cato the Elder [...]

By | 2017-02-28T07:31:18-08:00 October 1st, 2008|Islam and the West, Townhall Magazine|Comments Off on Iran: Enemy No 1

Book Review: American Heroes in the Fight Against Radical Islam by Oliver North

Ollie North Vividly Portrays the American Heroes By 204 B.C., the Carthaginian general, Hannibal, had been wreaking havoc on the Italian peninsula for 14 years at a cost to Rome and its Italian allies of approximately 100,000 lives. In that year, a young charismatic general from one of Rome’s most aristocratic families, Cornelius Scipio, convinced [...]

By | 2017-02-28T07:31:19-08:00 July 31st, 2008|Book Reviews, Human Events, Islam and the West|Comments Off on Book Review: American Heroes in the Fight Against Radical Islam by Oliver North

An ‘Infidel’ Reveals Islam’s Internal Fight

Edward Gibbon, perhaps the preeminent historian of the second millennium, in his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, wrote that Mohammed had “no more than 17 wives: 11 enumerated and who occupied at Medina their separate apartments round the house of the apostle, and enjoyed in their turns the favor of his conjugal society.” [...]

By | 2017-02-28T07:31:19-08:00 June 4th, 2007|Human Events, Islam Women|Comments Off on An ‘Infidel’ Reveals Islam’s Internal Fight

Iranian Discontent May Well Bring Regime Change

News coming from Iran these days runs the gamut from the specter of the terrorist/rogue state poised to acquire nuclear weapons to the hopeful defection and disappearance of one of its top military men, Gen. Ashgari. [See Defector Could Be Key to Regime Change in Iran, by Lt. Gen. Tom McInerney] The [...]

By | 2017-02-28T07:31:19-08:00 April 23rd, 2007|Human Events, Islam Women|Comments Off on Iranian Discontent May Well Bring Regime Change

NATO Winning Battle Against Terrorist Taliban in Afghanistan

About the Afghani Northern Alliance fighters and Western Military Although it is not fashionable to give President Bush any credit for successfully prosecuting the War on militant Islam, the Afghan theater is proving to be a solid model for the future where four positives for the West have emerged. One, in 2001, the coalition of [...]

By | 2017-02-28T07:31:19-08:00 January 12th, 2007|Human Events, Islam and the West|Comments Off on NATO Winning Battle Against Terrorist Taliban in Afghanistan

The Iraq Surrender Report Post Mortem

Can anyone imagine Ronald Reagan appointing a blue-ribbon panel, partly comprised of his political enemies, and ordering it to produce a report that would tell him how to deal with the Soviet Union?

Perhaps the most odious aspect of Iraq Study Group report was that it linked the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with our decision to remove Saddam [...]

By | 2017-02-28T07:31:20-08:00 December 29th, 2006|Human Events, Islam History|Comments Off on The Iraq Surrender Report Post Mortem

Introducing ‘Good News From The Front’

An adequate working description of my new column might well be: Militant Islam vs. the West—The Good News. But now that both Iraq and Lebanon seem to be slouching toward civil war, now that schools open to Afghan girls are being attacked with savage impunity, now that Carl Levin, that sultan of surrender will be [...]

By | 2017-02-28T07:31:20-08:00 December 14th, 2006|Human Events, Islam History|Comments Off on Introducing ‘Good News From The Front’