Prophet and religious leader in Arabia (c. 570–632)
Andrew McCarthy of National Review Online offers a major media outlet a journalism lesson. This is from the Newspaper of Record today, reporting on Trump administration pressure for a cease-fire…
Mark Steyn recalls an important 10-year milestone in the fight for freedom of speech. Exactly a decade ago – January 7th 2015 – two Muslim fanatics burst into the offices…
The Criminalization of Speech, Continued
I’m reading the Tyranny of Silence by Flemming Rose – finally. I highly recommend it. An editor for the Danish newspaper, Jyllands Posten, Rose challenged forty cartoonists to draw a…
Many major media outlets decided not to show the controversial cartoons that provoked a terrorist attack on the Paris office of Charlie Hebdo magazine. The absence of those images from…
Larry O’Connor questions in a column for the Federalist website why members of a secularized American media insist on referring to Muhammad as “the Prophet.” In all the coverage of…
Those who wonder about the evolution of extreme Islam would do well to read Michael Novak‘s latest article at National Review Online, which celebrates the 16th-century Battle of Lepanto. For…
The internets were atwitter yesterday about President Obama’s amazing statement that “the future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam,” but you’d never know it from…
Byron York — who will take part in the John Locke Foundation’s election preview panel Wednesday — challenges the standard media take on Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s response to…
Why does democracy often struggle for survival in the Middle East? Fareed Zakaria explores that question in his latest TIME column. Zakaria turns to Harvard economics professor Eric Chaney for…
Practitioners of the “religion of peace” want to kill the teddy bear teacher: According to some agencies, some of the protesters chanted: “Shame, shame on the UK”, “No tolerance –…
Excerpt from an AP article: “Thousands of Sudanese, many armed with clubs and knives, rallied Friday in a central square and demanded the execution of a British teacher convicted of…