As Josh Trevino has pointed out in an earlier post, miffed Muslims the world over are taking out their frustrations with Danish cartoons on symbols of Christianity at home. What was a controversy between Western liberalism (free speech) and Islamic law (prohibitions on blasphemy and images of the Prophet) – is rapidly turning into a [...]
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The wages of Christian division.
December 29th, 2010 
admin Islam has, throughout the history of its aggression against the West, benefited immensely by, and in many cases cunningly exploited the divisions within the West. Some of the first Byzantine provinces to fall after the Mohammedan Revolution were those, like Egypt and North Africa, whose internal repose had already been shattered by the conflagrations of [...]
The face of the enemy.
December 29th, 2010 admin More amazing than the existence of the cartoon protests themselves — when has barbarism not lurked within and without our civilization? — is the fact that the dead so far have been mostly Muslim. Indeed, outside of the Catholic priest slaughtered in Turkey some days ago, there has been no organized vengeance pogrom against non-Muslims [...]
Truth will out.
December 29th, 2010 admin Dr. Andrew Bostom, whose persistence, energy and courage gave us The Legacy of Jihad, which is, very simply, the best single resource we have on the doctrine, tradition and history of jihad, delivered a talk recently at James Madison University. And a strange thing happened afterward. It was one of those striking little disclosures, whether [...]
What to do (a beginning).
December 29th, 2010 admin The Cartoon Jihad has provoked some valuable discussion, but we are still very far from where we need to be. We are still very far from the kind of discussion that a free republican people, jealous of its liberty, must undertake. We are still very far from satisfactorily discharging our duty of self-government. The Boston [...]
Amish Protests Threaten to Escalate
December 29th, 2010 admin Dear EM colleagues and readers, The satire that follows was written by my husband, Tim. This seemed a good venue for it. Of course, we don’t intend thereby to give the impression that we underestimate the seriousness of the real-life situation. And buried somewhere in here is a serious point. Enjoy. Lancaster, PA — The governor of [...]
