The Iconoclast

by Michael Curtis Every responsible journalist seeks no pardon for asking what’s new or how is the world treating you, and refusing to wrap political and social troubles in dreams. If there is a model of integrity in reporting the news and analyzing troubles ahead it is C.P. Scott, longtime editor, ...Read More...

by Philip Blake I was interested in attending the Yad Vashem traveling exhibition that should have taken place in Golders Green recently. Sadly it was cancelled, as the Jewish Chronicle reported.  The Love Your Neighbour Exhibition had been due to take place at the Markaz (Centre for Islamic Enlightening) ...Read More...

From the Bradford Telegraph and Argus. The local paper is reporting this trial every few days - commendable! A TEENAGER was drunk and high on cocaine when she was repeatedly sexually abused at a house in Bradford, a jury heard. She was 16 when she was taken to the address by men who knew her past ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald “College Station’s Islamic Center hosts mosque open house,” by Rebecca Fiedler, The Eagle, November 4, 2018: Graduate student Osama Qureshi worked with five black ink pens on Saturday afternoon, crafting ornate name signatures of Arabic calligraphy for visitors to the ...Read More...

From the Telegraph The Scout Association has suspended a second volunteer and referred four more mosques to the police over extremism concerns following a Telegraph investigation. Hussain Al-Rawni, (left) who runs the 304th Birmingham Scout Group on behalf of the Muslim Association of Britain ...Read More...

by Gary Fouse (hat tip: Daily Caller) Anthony Cormier and Ben Smith on CNN's Reliable Sources This morning, Anthony Cormier, one of the two investigative reporters who broke the Buzzfeed story on President Trump Thursday night, appeared with Buzzfeed's editor-in-chief, Ben Smith on CNN's Reliable ...Read More...

by Geoffrey Clarfield Ethiopians on pilgrimage Had we been there to see it, the young man would have inspected his father’s many camels. He would have made sure their feet were unblemished, that they had had enough fodder, that their packs were properly balanced and that they had drunk deeply ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald The September 8 Iranian missile attack on Kurdish leaders meeting in Koya in northern Iraq was widely described in the press at the time as “a warning to Washington, Riyadh, and Jerusalem.” For it was taken as a demonstration of Iran’s military prowess. The attack included ...Read More...

by Michael Curtis In one of his essays Henry James asserted that goodness is very apt to be weak, that folly is very apt to be defiant, that imbeciles are in great places. His aphorism is fitting when considering contemporary figures on the chessboard of political and social events across the ...Read More...

From the Telegraph and the Mail on Sunday A scout group run from a mosque is being investigated by police after a Telegraph investigation linked it to an Islamic extremist and a man associated with Holocaust denial. The Scout Association raised the alarm after the Telegraph found the Lewisham ...Read More...

Cameron didn’t believe Britain would vote to leave and even after they did, Europe didn’t believe the British were serious. by Conrad Black The front page of the London Daily Mirror undoubtedly had it wrong when it ran a front page on Wednesday with a full-length photo of Prime Minister Theresa ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald President Trump surprised and dismayed many when he announced in late December that he would be pulling out the last remaining American troops — 2,000 Special Forces — from Syria. He said at a the time that ISIS in Syria had been defeated, and that it was time to bring the ...Read More...

From the Express Photograph AFP/Getty via the Daily Mail NORWAY police are investigating a suspected terror attack after a woman was attacked with a knife in a supermarket in Oslo. The authorities are treating the incident which happened on January 17 in the capital as “terror-related”. The woman ...Read More...

Women’s issues -- even those that are impacted by race, class, religion, and ethnicity -- are still woman-specific, but you won't hear about them at this march. I am in mourning for a vibrant and radical feminist movement. But this is not it. by Phyllis Chesler I have been marching for women’s ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald Kristy Sabah, Sabeel Ahmed and Irfan Sheikh discuss a nationwide effort to unite different faiths. (Photo: Paulina Pineda/The Republic) What do Muslims think of Jesus? It’s a question Dr. Sabeel Ahmed said he gets often. To help educate people on the significance of Jesus ...Read More...