The Iconoclast

(Reuters) - Ten men were detained in raids around Frankfurt on Friday on suspicion of planning an Islamist attack using a vehicle and guns with the goal of killing as many people as possible, prosecutors said. Several of the suspects, aged 20 to 42, were German citizens, a spokeswoman for the prosecutor’s ...Read More...

Democratic leaders have been cynical and slow in addressing Jew-hatred within their party, perhaps because they believe most Jews will remain Democrats regardless of how the party treats them or regards Israel.   by Matthew Hausman Despite indignant denials, the Democratic Party has enabled ...Read More...

Review by James Heiser “At the moment postmodern theory lay dying in the academy, it bore a child, namely, ‘social justice.’ As mothers are the root of all evil in horror films, so postmodern theory would be in waking nightmares.” Thus begins Dr. Michael Rectenwald, professor of Liberal Studies ...Read More...

by Gary Fouse The bus still smolders after Sengalese immigrant attempted to burn schoolchildren alive The past week has not been good from the standpoint of horrific attacks around the world. We began with an Australian man attacking two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand and killing 50 Muslim ...Read More...

Washington DC: The smear attacks waged by Muslim Brotherhood front, the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and Iran Deal backer, Huffington Post, on two young Americans - one serving in the Administration and another building a distinguished media career - demonstrate once again that the Iranian ...Read More...

From the Telegraph The Utrecht tram gunman will face terrorism charges when he appears in court on Friday, Dutch prosecutors have said. A public prosecution service spokesman said on Thursday: "The 37-year-old suspect will appear before a judge on Friday, charged with multiple murders with terrorist ...Read More...

Were we in an acknowledged war, what Brenton Tarrant has done, murdering indiscriminately including small children, would be a war crime. As it is it’s the crime of mass murder and once convicted after a fair trial he must be punished properly according to the law of New Zealand. But while the relatives ...Read More...

by Stephen Schecter Michael Ben-Ari The question is not one asking for an answer. The question is a statement of despair. As Hillel Neuer and Anne Bayefsky labor long and hard to defend Israel from the anti-Semitic slanders that emanate from the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, the Israeli ...Read More...

The boutique candidate will quickly get eaten up by the media. by Conrad Black If, as I wrote last week, Joe Biden may save the Democratic party from a horrible debacle at the polls next year, Beto O’Rourke may be doing the whole process a good turn now. Biden, despite his efforts to masquerade ...Read More...

by Theodore Dalrymple An evening with Mrs. Merkel, Mrs. May, or President Macron would, I suspect, be about as entertaining as dentistry without anaesthetic; but it would be like an evening with Oscar Wilde by comparison with an evening with Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the Opposition in Britain, ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald Bahrainian King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa Bahrain is a small Gulf Arab state that first stood out from its neighbors by appointing a Jewish woman, Houda Nonoo, in 2008 as its Ambassador to the United States. When other Arabs objected to this choice, claiming she could not adequately ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald Abdulfattah El-Sisi some time ago gave an interview to Scott Pelley of CBS’s “60 Minutes.” Shortly after it was taped, Egypt’s ambassador to the United States requested that the interview not be aired. CBS refused the request. All reports suggest that El-Sisi had reconsidered ...Read More...

From Dutch News and Associated Press The suspect wanted for shooting dead three people in Utrecht on Monday morning has been arrested, police said at a news conference on Monday evening. The circumstances of the arrest are still unclear, and officials at the news conference were taken by surprise ...Read More...

He's Turkish born. From the Belfast Telegraph The death toll is now three persons,  Three people have been killed following a shooting on a tram in the Dutch city of Utrecht, the city's mayor says. Nine others were injured in the incident which police say appears to be a terrorist attack. Police ...Read More...

One person has died and several more injured after a man opened fire on a tram in the Netherlands. The shooting happened at 24 October Square in the city of Utrecht. A counter terrorism chief confirmed there had been shootings at multiple locations in the city, and schools, mosques and transport ...Read More...