The Iconoclast
France to ban Muslim abaya dress in state schools
PARIS (Reuters) – France will ban children from wearing the abaya, the loose-fitting, full-length robes worn by some Muslim women, in state-run schools, its education minister said on Sunday ahead […]
Taliban says security forces will stop Afghan women from visiting popular national park
From France 24 The Taliban will use security forces to stop women from visiting one of Afghanistan’s most popular national parks, according to information shared by a spokesman for the […]
The Sacred Spheres of Paradise
A quick recap of what we have read thus far: At the center of all creation lies the Isle of Paradise. It is stationary and does not exist in […]
Saint of What?
by Theodore Dalrymple Opening my copy of the French newspaper Le Figaro recently, there was a long article titled “With Gustave Thibon in the Ardèche: the Saint and the Peasant.” I was […]
Flag-burning is legal, Koran-burning is not? This doesn’t make any sense.
by Lev Tsitrin “Denmark Moves to Ban Quran Burnings After Muslim Outrage” the New York Times informs us. “Those found guilty of mistreating an object with major religious significance could be […]
Calling Foul on Big-Time College Sports
by Bruce Gilley Over the last ten years, limits on what college athletes are paid for their services have been slowly dismantled by a series of legislative and judicial actions […]
OUCH! What a Bloody Mess!
by Reg Green Another summer of productions of Merchant of Venice in parks around the country has done nothing to resolve the disagreement between 1) those who admire Portia’s ingenuity as a lawyer […]
“Land of the Free and Home of the Brave”??
by Armando Simón “The irony today is that Americans keep bragging about their land of the free, yet cannot tell a joke, paint their face, whistle at a pretty girl, […]
Brazilian Soccer Star Neymar Widely Condemned By Muslim Clerics for Arriving In Saudi Arabia Wearing Cross
From MEMRI On August 18, 2023, Brazilian soccer star Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior arrived in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, following the signing of a lucrative two-year contract with Al-Hilal Saudi […]
Taxpayers’ funding to controversial mosque halted amid investigation
I was bending over backwards to be fair to the Birmingham Green Lane Mosque earlier this week, or at least to Imam Shaykh Zakaullah Saleem who was giving the lecture. […]
America’s top law schools are openly abandoning the Constitution
Andrea Widburg writes in the American Thinker: America was founded as a nation that had the rule of law. The Constitution is the fount of those laws. It, in turn, […]
Ron DeSantis and the Question of Mexico
by Gary Fouse I won’t bother trying to give my non-expert opinion on who did well or badly in last night’s Republican debate in Milwaukee. I do want to comment, […]
A grave dilemma for post-Prigozhin Wagnerites
by Lev Tsitrin I wonder what goes through the heads of the Wagnerites now that their boss, Yevgeny Prigozhin, who two months ago ordered Wagner’s march on Moscow to protest […]
Amazon’s Tucker-Disappearing Act
by Bruce Bawer In the context of the wholesale media corruption of recent years—from the bogus Steele dossier to the suppression of reporting about Hunter Biden’s laptop—it might seem like […]
Reporting restriction on the Barrow-in-Furness grooming gang trial
Regular readers will have noticed that I have been following the newspaper reports about the three Miah brothers, on trial in Preston at the Crown Court for historic sexual abuse […]
Birmingham University student ‘plotted to supply IS with bomb delivery drone’
A University of Birmingham PhD student plotted to supply Islamic State (IS) terrorists with a drone capable of delivering a bomb or chemical weapon, a court has been told. Mohamad […]
