The Iconoclast

An interview with extraordinary freedom fighter Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff. by Mark Tapson As the totalitarian left advances ever more successfully toward amending or abolishing freedom of speech, it is crucial to keep in mind that hand-in-hand with curtailing the speech of those who hold ...Read More...

by Michael Rectenwald In Fall 2016, as Campus Reform reported at the time, the University of Michigan instituted a policy allowing students a carte blanche pronoun preference opportunity.  Students were encouraged by the university administration to choose existing pronouns or to create new ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald When Secretary of State Pompeo announced that the Trump Administration did not view Israeli settlements as violating international law, the American media did its best to convince its audience that this was a radical departure from “40 years” of settled policy. The New York ...Read More...

Another terrorist attack reveals Britain’s delusions about rehabilitation. by Theodore Dalrymple If the most recent terrorist attack in London had been an episode in a novel by a social satirist, it would have been dismissed as too crude or absurd to be plausible. Nothing like it could ever ...Read More...

From the Irish Times Former Defence Forces member Lisa Smith has been denied bail after being charged with membership of Islamic State. The 38-year-old year old Dundalk woman was brought to Dublin District Court Number Four in the Criminal Courts of Justice on Wednesday morning by gardaí from the ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald Hanan Ashrawi, the unpleasant-looking Palestinian propagandist and apparatchik, for decades a member of the PLO’s Executive Committee, who has somehow managed to amass several million dollars on her Palestinian salary, and describes herself modestly as “Fiercely independent. ...Read More...

by Michael Curtis I spend my days in longing, wondering why it’s me you’re wronging. I can’t believe you have such a hatred.  The disease of antisemitism, a historic hatred, seems to have no end, as recent events in London, and in numerous countries including France, Italy, Belgium, and Norway, ...Read More...

This doesn't sound like a model reformed prisoner at all.  London Bridge terrorist Usman Khan was upgraded to a “high risk” category A prisoner after making threats to senior prison staff, The Telegraph can reveal. Prison officials increased the convicted terrorist’s threat level in prison from ...Read More...

On the matter of child sexual exploitation in the Telford and Wrekin area the Independent Inquiry commissioned by the local council has made an appeal for anybody with knowledge or experience of abuse to come forward.  The Chair is asking for witnesses to come forward and speak to the Inquiry about ...Read More...

First day of evidence in this trial. Five Muslim men from Telford, on trial for rape and other sexual offences against a young girl from the age of 12.  A woman who was 'traded between men and raped' as a girl today told a court that 'not one teacher' intervened when she was bullied over the abuse ...Read More...

With his leadership, an alliance built to contain Communism is facing the new threats created by its demise. by Conrad Black As the Democrats toil to make their impeachment effort look like something other than a partisan smear job and legal scam, President Trump is at the NATO leaders’ meeting ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald Lindsey Graham was criticized last week for blocking a Congressional resolution recognizing the Armenian genocide, and deservedly so. Despite the well-financed efforts of successive Turkish governments to convince the world that there never was an Armenian genocide, but only ...Read More...

by Abakar M. Abdallah[i] On November 28, 2019, IBT reported Abdalla Hamdok ,Sudan Prime Minister of the interim government, announcing the abolition of the former Bashir Islamist National Congress Party (NCP): Sudan's new authorities on Thursday ordered that the party of ousted autocrat Omar ...Read More...

A jihadist is not an ordinary prisoner. He is a religious zealot whose mission is to inflict terror into the heart of infidels by murdering civilians, not a poor victim who can be rehabilitated. by Phyllis Chesler As we now all know, British-Pakistani jihadist, Usman Khan, was not rehabilitated ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald Gideon Rachman, a columnist for the Financial Times, is horrified at the “suspicion and hatred” of the Muslim world that, he claims, has not abated since September 11, 2001. Under the title “Islamophobia and the new clash of civilisations,” he delivered himself of some thoughts ...Read More...