The Iconoclast

by Hugh Fitzgerald Justin Trudeau has been noticeably unconcerned about Islam. He’s been criticised for his failure to recognize the genocide, by Muslims, of Christians in the Middle East. He was eager to hand over to  Omar Khadr, the Muslim who killed one American soldier, Christopher Speer, ...Read More...

by Theodore Dalrymple Is the bad-temper manifest in so much contemporary commentary merely a letting off of steam, or is it something more sinister, a prelude, or at least incitement, to violence? Last March, in the south of France, a Moslem terrorist killed four people in a supermarket, one ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald As everyone knows by now, Boris Johnson, no longer the British Foreign Secretary, but still a prominent MP and force in the Tory Party as well as, again, a journalist for The Telegraph, recently delivered himself of his views on the burqa/niqab. Here is some of what he wrote: If ...Read More...

by Gary Fouse As would be predicted, the media and the left are full of outage over President Trump's lifting of former CIA Director John Brennan's security clearance. According to the CNN's of the world, it's all because Brennan has spoken out publicly against Trump. The fact is, however, that ...Read More...

From the Telegraph and the BBC.  A Manchester imam being investigated by police for appearing to call for jihad just days before Salman Abedi bought a ticket to attack an Ariana Grande concert has said he was simply  “doing good for the community”. Iman Mustafa Graf told the Telegraph his "jihad" sermon ...Read More...

In East London. From the Guardian and the London Evening Standard A London couple were appearing in court today accused of carrying out the procedure. It is alleged the man, 42, and woman, 36 ... mutilated the girl at their east London home. The girl is understood to have been rushed to hospital ...Read More...

by the News & Observer Editorial Board: Andrew Brunson, a 50-year-old evangelical Christian pastor from Black Mountain, served the people of western Turkey for more than 20 years. For that, the Turkish government threw Brunson in prison. Turkey has accused Brunson of participating in a failed ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald Dutch councilor, commits suicide after stating she was gang-raped by gang of Muslims Islam Critic, City councilor & member of Geert Wilders Freedom Party PVV, Willie Dille, took her own life after posting this video on Facebook saying she was gang-raped by Muslims to silence ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald We hear endlessly about the economic misery of the “Palestinians” in Gaza, and the West Bank, or about the wretched condition of those who continue to live in the “refugee” camps of Lebanon, Jordan, Syria. We learn of their high unemployment rates, but not about why, most reluctantly, ...Read More...

V.S. Naipaul, 1932–2018 by Theodore Dalrymple V. S. Naipaul, who has died in his eighty-sixth year, was undoubtedly one of the greatest writers in English of the past 60 years. He wrote nothing that is not worth rereading or will not be read (assuming anything is still read) in another 60 ...Read More...

They believed in universal human goodness, and discovered too late the reality of evil in the human heart. Michael Sinkowicz writes in The Pluralist "Evil is a make-believe concept we've invented to deal with the complexities of fellow humans." An idealistic young American couple was killed ...Read More...

Luton Town played West Bromwich Albion (in Birmingham) the other night. This is from Birmingham newspaper the Express and Star.  Luton Town's chief executive has urged the Hatters fans to stop singing chants in favour of Tommy Robinson after their defeat at The Hawthorns. Luton’s fans were in ...Read More...

by Gary Fouse The firing of Peter Strzok by the FBI serves to remind the public that the Robert Mueller investigation has very little legitimacy left. Consider: Strzok was closely involved in both the Hillary Clinton email investigation and the Trump collusion investigation. Not only that, ...Read More...

by Nidra Poller The Benalla scandal French president Emmanuel Macron and his supporters breathed a sigh of relief as the “Benalla scandal” that had dominated the news stream since mid-July took a dip into the August doldrums. Mass media switched to summertime mode —heatwaves, sandy beaches, ...Read More...

As reported yesterday by Dan Conifer for our reliably-Islamophile ABC. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-14/fraser-anning-maiden-speech-immigration-solution/10120270 "Senator Fraser Anning Gives Controversial Maiden Speech Calling for Muslim Immigration Ban". And it's about time this was talked ...Read More...

From the Yorkshire Evening Post. Detectives in Kirklees have charged 31 people with numerous offences including rape and trafficking with intent to engage in sexual exploitation. The offences are said to have been committed in the Huddersfield area (between 2005 and 2012) against five women when ...Read More...

From the Telegraph and the Daily Mail. A terror suspect is believed to have travelled through the night from Birmingham to stake out Westminster for more than an hour and a half before mowing down cyclists outside the Houses of Parliament, it emerged on Tuesday night.   A Sudanese immigrant known ...Read More...

From the Telegraph and the Independent A terror suspect arrested after a car crashed into a barrier at the Houses of Parliament at high speed is not believed to be known to the security services, police have said. A 29-year-old British man, who was born abroad according to ministers, is being questioned ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald At Memri.org, an astonishing act of truth-telling was recently posted. It’s by a Muslim Arab writer, Ali ‘Abd Al-Karim Al-Sa’di,  who describes his own people, accusing them of being, among other things, “racist, greedy, with expansionist aspirations, and hating the other” ...Read More...

Michael Rectenwald's book launch was successful-- a full house and not enough books to satisfy demand!  Full speech can be seen here. After the event, we were lucky to have dinner and then get some fantastic pictures. Don't forget to buy your book here. All photos by Mike Keenan. ...Read More...

by Marc Epstein “New York, New York, a wonderful town The Bronx is up and the Battery's down The people ride in a hole in the ground New York, New York, It's a wonderful town! “ (Music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green)   In 1995 I returned to NYC after ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald The recent news that the Kurdish government in northern Iraq has imposed a variety of special taxes and fees on those who live in the town of Ankawa should raise an eyebrow or two. Business owners in Ankawa — but nowhere else within the Kurdish-run area — will now have to ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald Muslim Travel Ban? There Has Never Been an America Without Islam or Muslims That’s the headline for an article by Dawud Walid, Executive Director of CAIR in Michigan, here. I am an American Muslim, and like thousands of American-Muslim families, my family has been in ...Read More...

by Michael Curtis Considering the nature of the muster of political figures now on the scene aspiring to be president of the United States, one may conclude they're either too gray or too grassy green. The pickings are poor and the crop is lean.  How many have appropriate qualifications for the ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald Thilo Sarrazin is a former German central banker, soft-spoken and thoughtful, who has for years been observing the effect on German society of the millions of Muslim migrants it has welcomed into its midst. Though he is now inevitably connected in the Western media with the ...Read More...