The Iconoclast

Here. Aren’t you thinking about how different was the reaction of the “international community” to the constrained, carefully-targetted bombing by the Israelis in the Gaza campaign, when many times an […]

Here. The American government deplores the Shi’a name — “We Are Here, O Hussain!” — as “unhelpful.” But how is it “unhelpful”? Such a name makes clear that it is […]

Boeing CHAMP non nuclear EMP cruise missile We noticed that the Boeing CHAMP non-nuclear EMP missile is back in the news after first surfacing following US Air Force (USAF) Research […]

From the Harvard Gazette: “Students greeted each other under the flag at University Hall (photo 1) before jubilantly (photo 2) entering the Memorial Church for the Baccalaureate Service. Plummer Professor […]

Here. This latter-day Padishah, Recep Fatih, wanted his very own Dolmabahce or, more exactly, his very own Topkapi. So he built himself a palace, with 1,150 rooms, all in the […]

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“His man’s when is no otherman’s quandour.” Please discuss.

The West — the West that is to be hated, but all of its many benefits, including the security, the freedom from violence, that the advanced non-Muslim provides, as well […]

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Ruth Wisse writes in Crossing the Line 2: The New Face of Anti-Semitism on Campus faithfully captures scenes of the violence that often attends this new academic experience. Nor are students […]

President Barack Obama and Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg in Oval Office This past Memorial Day Weekend Jews  observed  the Festival of  Shavuot (spring harvest festival) celebrating the giving of the law […]

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It’s been all downhill since the French left in 1962. Algeria never attained to the secularism of Tunisia. It had no Bourguiba, but only a Boumedienne, and instead of his […]

The Sunnis, who are the majority of the Muslims in the world, believed that they should voluntarily choose Mohammed’s successor. They chose Abu Bakr, the father of Aisha, the ninth […]

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