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On July 14, the French parliament voted to ban the burqa in public places, causing much anguish amongst Muslims, Leftists, and even some conservatives, especially libertarians.  Regardless of the political filter through which they viewed the new law, its detractors all claimed that a free society cannot ban clothes without infringing on its citizens’ human [...]

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There’s still time to stop a mosque from being built at Ground Zero.  People who pay attention to Islam understand that Islam always builds mosques at the site of military victories.  This ad gets it.  The media, some branches of which are refusing to run this ad, and the PC crowd in New York do [...]

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From Charles Krauthammer: President Obama’s National Security Strategy insists on calling the enemy — how else do you define those seeking your destruction? — “a loose network of violent extremists.” But this is utterly meaningless. This is not an anger-management therapy group gone rogue. These are people professing a powerful ideology rooted in a radical [...]

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Stand With Us is an extraordinarily important organization.  I cannot emphasize that enough.  Its goal is to counter the calumnies that an unholy union of Leftists and Islamists spread against Israel, especially on college campuses. The Stand With Us founders realized something that American Jews and other friends of Israel had missed completely:  while most [...]

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No kidding.  Really.  It’s true. Now, having clicked over to the link, I bet you’re not at all surprised.

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Thanks to a reader for bringing this video to my attention.  It explains how Boston’s Islamic Cultural Center has deep jihadist ties — and how Massachusett’s governor Deval Patrick has allied himself with this organization:

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Unless you’ve been visiting some other planet somewhere in the universe, you already know about Comedy Central’s South Park debacle.  That’s the one, of course, that saw Comedy Central, the oh-so-hip-and-edgy (meaning often offensive) television station brutally censoring a South Park episode that implied that Mohamed was walking around wearing a bear suit — when [...]

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I’m working on a post, but thought you all would find this interesting in the meantime: From AJ Strata, something that’s not just interesting, but is also terrifying:  the terrorists are out there and, having gotten the measure of our new president and his administration, they are massing for war. If you needed a reminder [...]

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One of the lesser known, but very dangerous fronts, in the jihad war against the west is the Islamists’ habit of using our own Western laws against us.  Right now, a front in that particular battle is being waged in Canada, where McMaster University is suing Dr. Paul Williams after he wrote about the peculiar [...]

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In a field rich with excellent conservative writers, I always think Mark Steyn is the best.  The joyful days, though, are the days when he outdoes even himself.  In this week’s column about the fluffy multiculturalism that reared its head both before and after Hasan’s deadly terrorist attack at Fort Hood, Steyn outdoes himself.  Here [...]

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I don’t think the media has ever before been so blatant in its desire to divorce an evil act from its ideological origins, but this isn’t the first time we’ve seen that game played out.  More than two years ago, a short lived comedy show on Fox used the occasion of an abortive bombing in [...]

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An eyewitness heard those words — Allahu Akbar — come out of the killer’s mouth.  Private Joe Foster, though, is still ready to do his job, as he did at the time of the shooting, and that despite a bullet strike on his femur. UPDATE:  You must — MUST — check out Mudville Gazette to [...]

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My liberal friend is a headline reader.  That’s why we had a ridiculous conversation in which he wondered about the Fort Hood shooter’s motives.  To the reader who scans, headlines that say “motives a mystery” trump even those articles that add, under the headline, little facts such as Muslim death cries (“Allahu Akbar!”), radical mosques, [...]

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Insane people reflect the obsessions of their times.  In the old days, insane people heard messages from the Devil.  In the post-nuclear age, they were in contact with Martians.  And nowadays, if their Muslim, Islam gives the impetus to their urges.  Indeed, Islam is an all-purpose blank check for bad behavior.  As my cousin, the [...]

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So often, there are what I call “matched sets” of stories in newspapers.  This happens when one article makes a point, and another article perfectly illustrates that point.  Today, Spiegel provided the perfect pairing of the way in which the modern Western (that is, Leftist) world refuses to learn lessons, but insists on repeating the [...]

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It’s no surprise that I’m not the only one thinking about the nature of the war waging around us.  Mark Steyn is thinking about it too, but he’s added the other layer to the problem, which is the West’s willful refusal to acknowledge the enemy.  Thus, after briefly discussing the way the press, imitating the [...]

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(It will give you a sense of just how busy my weekend was that it took me two days to do this one post!) A very popular bumper sticker in Marin since 2003 is one that has the phrase “Endless War” in blue type, with the “less” then crossed out with a red line, and [...]

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I can’t add anything to this that you haven’t already thought of yourselves: A solicitor who specialises in representing terror suspects and tells them not to cooperate with police was paid almost £1 million in legal aid last year. Muddassar Arani’s firm represented Abu Hamza, dirty bomb plotter Dhirin Barot and three of the 21/7 [...]

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I’ve been finding very disturbing the intense hostility that conservatives direct against John McCain. So much so that I wrote a very long rant on the subject, which American Thinker was kind enough to publish and which I reprint below: Perhaps because I’m a neocon, and not a dyed-in-the-wool, native-born conservative, I look at John [...]

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At this particular moment — 4:47 p.m., PST — the counter in my sidebar from The Religion of Peace records that terrorists acting in Islam’s name have committed precisely 11111 acts of terror since 9/11.  That’s quite a number, both in terms of that string of ones, and in terms of what all those ones [...]

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WARNING: British bloggers — do not write about this story. In England, a convoluted case played out in which the government froze funds in British banks that were to be sent to Al Qaeda, the funds’ owners challenged that action, and the court held against the government. As a result of this successful court action, [...]

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Andrew C. McCarthy, author of the newly published Willful Blindness: Memoir of the Jihad, sat down for an interview at NRO, and voiced some unpleasant truths about our suicidal sensibilities: Lopez: What’s the most devastating lesson from 15 years ago we still haven’t learned? McCarthy: That the primary cause of Islamic terrorism is Muslim doctrine, [...]

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One of the things about conspiracy theorists is that they live in a hazy world of innuendo and speculation.  There’s never any hard evidence to support their theory, just a lot of disparate facts that can be spun together into a tangled and usually nonsensical tapestry.  As often as not, the beauty of the theories [...]

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I will never again complain about having to throw away my unfinished drink before going through airport security: A gang of alleged British Muslim fanatics plotted to cause “carnage on an almost unprecedented scale” with simultaneous suicide bombings on up to 18 transatlantic airliners, a court has heard. Bombs made from hydrogen peroxide liquid explosives, [...]

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