The Iconoclast

From the Jerusalem Post and the Daily Mail PARIS - A French court on Monday handed down sentences of at least 25 years in jail to two women with ties to Islamist militants. The women had made a failed attempt to set off a crude car bomb outside of Paris's Notre-Dame cathedral three years ago, the ...Read More...

Petr Svab writes in the Epoch Times: Dr. Michael Rectenwald, a former professor at New York University and author of “The Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom", in New York City on Oct. 4, 2019. (Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times) Giant tech companies, particularly ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald From the Netherlands, these second thoughts on Muslim migrants passed with little notice, but are even more important today than when they were first enunciated: A former Shell CEO, who volunteers in giving education to migrants in the Netherlands, gave some shocking examples ...Read More...

by Michael Curtis The new predicament in the Middle East is of two friends drifting apart, and pretending it isn’t the ending. Bad news is more sudden than good news which is gradual. The seemingly simple phone call on October 6, 2019 between President Donald Trump and Turkish President Recep ...Read More...

From the Daily Mail More than 17,000 people have demanded the BBC take down a documentary about young Iraqi girls being sold for sex - calling it 'disrespectful' to law-abiding Shia Muslims. The corporation broadcast 'Undercover With The Clerics - Iraq's Secret Sex Trade' on October 3 - an investigation ...Read More...

He presents new philosophical arguments, supported by modern neuroscience, in defense of the soul. Posted in Mind Matters News: Oxford philosopher of science and religion Richard Swinburne has published a book, Are We Bodies or Souls? (2019), summarizing and developing his views on the nature ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald This “British” Muslim’s unedifying tale, full of self-pity, mendacity, and unbelievable gall, is here, as reported last week: A jihadi ‘matchmaker’ who allegedly recruited Shamima Begum into Islamic State has issued an apology and begged to return to Britain to face justice. Tooba ...Read More...

From the Jersey Evening Post A copycat terrorist who tried to “kill as many people as possible” when he ploughed into cyclists and police officers outside the Houses of Parliament has been jailed for life. Salih Khater, 30, drove his Ford Fiesta into a pedestrian and riders who had stopped at ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald This was a very small story. It was about a very small group of people. Two, to be exact, the last two Sikhs in Helmand Province in Afghanistan. But this story tells us a lot about Muslim behavior. LASHKAR GAH, HELMAND, AFGHANISTAN – Like many other Afghans, Satnam Singh ...Read More...

From France 24 French police on Monday detained five people linked to a radicalised employee at the Paris police headquarters who killed four colleagues in a knife attack earlier this month, sources said. Police staged raids at three locations in the northern suburbs of Paris, judicial sources ...Read More...

Some day he’ll come along, the man I love, and he’ll be a musical genius, the man I love. by Michael Curtis They don’t appear too often, musical geniuses, and when they do, they sometimes die too young. Of these immortals Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died at 35, and George Gershwin, originally ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald Alternative for Germany (AfD) has distinguished itself for its resistance to mass Muslim migration. Known for its tough stance on Islamic immigration, AfD has been calling for an end to the country’s open-door policy since its inception in 2015. One incident illustrative of ...Read More...

This is the government’s record: pandering, posturing, bungling, faddishness and extravagance, and four more years of it is promised by Conrad Black The signal facts of this federal election campaign are that the government is not running on its record, and cannot, and it is not promising ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald The noted French writer, essayist, and broadcast journalist Eric Zemmour, the most famous public intellectual in France, was invited in late September to a meeting in Paris organized by supporters of Marion Marechal, the daughter of Marine Le Pen, and herself a former deputy ...Read More...

by Gary Fouse Marie Yovanovitch is the latest figure to pop up in the Democrats' never-ending quest to remove President Trump from office. Ms Yovanovitch is a career US State Department Foreign Service officer who has served as our ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, and most recently, Ukraine. ...Read More...