The Iconoclast
Fitzgerald: Why I Call It Mesa Nostra [re-posting]
Here. I didn’t put in anything in that original piece about Carl Ernst, or Omid Safi of the Islamic Studies Center at Duke. At that time I was focussed on […]
Fitzgerald: A Brief Taxonomy Of MESA Nostra [re-posting]
“The vast majority of people in the Arab world sympathize with al Qaeda only because it champions their issues and speaks their language and it’s seemingly effective against their enemies.” […]
An Introduction To The Thought (And Feelings, And Heated Prose) Of Omid Safi
From Temple, to Chapel Hill, and now that appetizing thing, full professor and Director of the Islamic Studies Center at Duke University, Omid Safi churns out prose that has something […]
Raoul Wallenberg
Today is the 70th anniversary of the “disappearance” of Raoul Wallenberg when Soviet troops arrested him in Budapest (see forthcoming February issue of NER).
Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One
The French, it has been observed, take pride in France, in Chamfort’s “perfected civilisastion,” take pride in their physical and cultural patrimoine. This patrimony, and this pride steady them, give […]
A Few Dozen Secular Arabs and Berbers Sign A Petition On The Need To Ignore Or Change Islamic Texts
Here. It’s good that they publicly recognize that what went on in Paris, or in the Islamic State, or all over the place when Muslims behave violently toward non-Muslims and […]
A Letter To Francois Hollande From An Arab In Ramallah
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Monette Vacquin: How My Grandparents Became French
That title is not a literal translation of the French, but conveys the meaning, though not the implied contrast with how the Muslim immigrants to France today integrate, or refuse […]
Jean-Marie Le Pen, The Man Who Did The Most To Make Mass Migration Into France Possible,Tel Qu’En Lui-Même
Jean-Marie Le Pen is an out-and-out fascist. For years he was the face and emblem of the Front National. And because this awful man, who famously declared that the genocide […]
Christiane Taubira, French Minister Of Justice, In Whom No One Has Confidence
The latest results of a poll, here. Christiane Taubira was appointed to be the Garde des Sceaux (Keeper of the Seals, that is Minister of Justice) by Hollande in a […]
Adieu Voltaire
“I do not agree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” Some wag suggested that Voltaire was murdered the […]
UK PM Cameron versus President Obama on Radical Islamic Terror Threat
Contrast UK PM Cameron and President Obama on Radical Islamic Extremist Threat In Joint Press Conference Watch UK PM David Cameron and President Obama respond to question by BBC […]
Islamic Violence Must Be Ended
On Sunday, January 11, 2015 , Paris became the capital of the world as the setting of a unique historical demonstration: more than 40 international political leaders marched in the […]
Missing bomb plot teen arrested in Vienna
From the Austrian edition of
Hundreds protesters rally against Islam in Czech capital
Martin Konvicka, a leader of the group . . . said (the) group has no formal ties with PEGIDA, which organises bigger anti-Islam marches in Germany. There were some heated […]
Muslim Teacher Recorded Claiming The Charlie-Hebdo Killings A Conspiracy Against Muslims
She said there was no evidence any police had been killed, that it was strange that one particular person was not at the editorial meeting, that there was a plot, […]
