The Iconoclast

by Hugh Fitzgerald The Cairo correspondent for the German publicly-funded radio station, Deutschlandfunk, one Cornelia Wegerhoff, in her broadcast on August 8 equated the human rights records of Israel and Egypt. This is what she said, clearly and unambiguously: “Human rights are equally disregarded ...Read More...

From the Times and the Daily Mail An anti-fraud investigator claims he was sacked by a council because he is white and the subjects of his inquiries were Asian.Mark Edmunds, 54, is suing for £529,000 in a race and sex discrimination case against the scandal-hit London borough of Tower Hamlets. He ...Read More...

The Jeffrey Epstein charges and all aspects of this case are terribly serious, and the case ramifies far beyond the deceased. by Conrad Black The death of Jeffrey Epstein is a tragedy at every level. Any suicide is a tragedy other than for people facing intolerable but just punishment for ...Read More...

by Michael Curtis There’s a change in the fashion, there’ll be some changes made today, it’s time to seek something new. Secularism, indifference to or rejection of religion is increasing in the modern age, though religion continues to be important, partly because of the continuing confrontation ...Read More...

From the BBC and local newspaper the Express and Star A man has been charged with religiously aggravated criminal damage after a series of attacks on five Birmingham mosques earlier this year. The Express and Star reported the damage in March thus Five mosques have had their windows smashed ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald Mert Ney, the convert to Islam in Australia who recently went on a stabbing spree, shouted, as jihadis invariably do, “Allahu akbar.” And just as invariably, in the Western world these two words were translated in two different ways, both of them incorrect. Robert Spencer dealt ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald From Newsweek, which in its headline to the story includes the phrase “Trump’s Muslim ban”: Ivanka Trump was ridiculed this weekend after wishing “Eid Mubarak” to Muslims celebrating the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha. The greeting, translated as “Blessed Feast” is ...Read More...

by Theodore Dalrymple Wolves have returned to the neighbourhood in which I have my house in France. It borders the département in which the so called Beast of Gévaudun, presumably a wolf, a pair or a pack of wolves, terrified the population in the middle years of the eighteenth century, killing ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald Ayatollah Khomeini famously proclaimed: “Allah did not create man so that he could have fun. The aim of creation was for mankind to be put to the test through hardship and prayer. An Islamic regime must be serious in every field. There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humor ...Read More...

From the Telegraph A GCSE student was disqualified over “obscene racial comments” after an “over-zealous” examiner mistook her vegetarianism for Islamophobia, it has emerged. Abigail Ward, a 16-year-old pupil at Gildredge House school in Eastbourne, east Sussex, was penalised for making remarks ...Read More...

Unless he runs the most persuasive election campaign in Canada’s history, Trudeau and his partisans should be thoroughly punished by the voters for a combination of incompetence and deficient ethics by Conrad Black Prime Minister Justin Trudeau waits to speak about Ethics Commissioner Mario ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald “Triple Talaq” allows a Muslim husband to divorce his wife by repeating the word “Talaq” (divorce) three times in any form, including email or text message. In India, that will no longer be allowed. Although the Indian Supreme Court declared triple-talaq divorces unconstitutional ...Read More...

by Gary Fouse The Israel government has decided not to allow UC Congresswomen Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) to enter the country Friday as part of a US Congressional delegation. The decision is being criticized, mostly by Democrats and the left. I feel it is the right decision. I ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald The writer V. S. Naipaul died a year ago, on August 11, 2018, at the age of 85. A novelist, travel writer, essayist, and historian, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001. His most important works, for me, have been the  two books he devoted to studies of Islam and Muslim ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald Appearing on a “hip-hop” radio show in New York, Ebro In the Morning, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez agreed with the interviewer, Ebro Darden, in his claim that there were “white supremacist Jews” who aligned with “racism.” According to Fox News, Darden remarked, ...Read More...