Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard’s illustration of the Prophet Muhammad with a ticking bomb in his turban was part of a collection that sparked violent protests in Muslim nations around the world in 2005 and ignited the most controversial freedom-of-speech debate…
There’s a lot of buzz today over a new Census report which estimates that whites will cease to hold majority status in the United States by 2042 — 17 years earlier than previously forecast. In 2050, whites will account for only…
That is not a headline you see every day, and this interview is nothing short of amazing, regardless of how you feel about Yousef’s views. Video is here.
Mosab Hassan Yousef — son of popular Hamas leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef (who is currently…
No, this is not a joke:
Saudi Arabia’s religious police have announced a ban on selling cats and dogs as pets, or walking them in public in the Saudi capital, because of men using them as a means of making passes…
Canada’s Maclean’s magazine (involved in another controversial human rights case that I wrote about here and here) has published an extensive article detailing the “remarkably successful” campaign to make “defamation of religions” a violation of international law. (H/t: Volokh Conspiracy)
Led by the…
At the Washington Post, Anne Applebaum discusses last week’s Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom report on Saudi textbooks. The report also provides a glimpse into the multiple choice tests given to Saudi school children based on those textbooks.
A fourth-grade Saudi textbook titled…
Perusing al-Jazeera’s Arabic-language website the other day, I saw an article from mid-June about the presidential contest between John McCain and Barack Obama, specifically over statements they had made about their views on terrorism.
I thought it might be interesting to translate it…
USA Today reports that a Philadelphia man was arrested and charged with several crimes, including “making terroristic threats” and “corrupting the morals of a minor” after he appeared in a YouTube video encouraging viewers to kill cops.
The Daily News says members of a…
Where is Osama bin Laden?
An interview with an anonymous senior military analyst by NBC’s Robert Windrem explodes many of the media myths.
A “Western military analyst” was asked earlier this month about reports that Osama Bin Laden was seen on the…
An incredible story out of Iraq’s Anbar province from the New York Sun: “Iraqi Sheik Offers To Take Fight to Bin Laden”:
The leader of the tribal confederation that has fought to expel Al Qaeda from most of Iraq’s Anbar province is offering his…
It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range of temperate discussion, no limits on thought. No subject must be taboo. No censor must preside at…
