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Religion, Education and The State

Michael J Hurd — Fri, 03 May 2013 03:31:25 +0000

Northwest Rankin High School in Flowood, Mississippi is under fire for allegedly forcing its students to attend and listen to Christian lectures during three assemblies held in April alone. Worse yet, students were barred from leaving and teachers blocked the exits to prevent any of them from doing so. A lawsuit has been filed on [...]

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The Metaphysical Temper Tantrum of Islamic Terrorism

Michael J Hurd — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 16:18:45 +0000

Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., says it is time for the U.S. to stop being politically correct and focus its search on radical Islamists in Muslim communities. King tells Politico.com that while most Muslims are not terrorists, the international base for terrorism against the United States happens to be radical Islam. “There have been 16 terror [...]

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The Clueless Left and Islam

Edward Cline — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 02:42:54 +0000

Daniel Greenfield penned a perceptive and welcome critique, “What the Left Does not Understand About Islam” (February 15th), of the cluelessness of the Left vis-à-vis Islam. The Left, he writes, is naïve about its rival ideology, and ideologically will always remain naïve. The Left, he writes, has never been able to think outside of the [...]

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An Arab Spring: Corrupted by Islamic Theocracy

Edward Cline — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 15:53:27 +0000

In his penetrating essay on the futility of Islam’s efforts to “reform” itself through revolution, “régime change,” or purification, “Springtime for Islam” (February 5th), Daniel Greenfield noted: There is a peculiar tragedy to a religion which cannot escape its own destructive nature, each time it reaches for some form of redemption, its hands come up [...]

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Happy Randsday! Give Yourself A Present This Randsday!

Harry Binswanger — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 01:00:52 +0000

To celebrate Randsday, you do something not done on any other holiday: you give yourself a present. Randsday is for getting that longed-for luxury you ordinarily would not buy for yourself.

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The Sanity of “Islamophobia”

Edward Cline — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 03:13:43 +0000

November was “Islamophobia Awareness” Month. Pat Condell, the indomitable critic of all things mystical and murky, especially of that paragon of tolerance and peaceful coexistence, has recommended that the West designate December as “Hatred and Violence in the Koran” month. In a Gatestone article on the ubiquity of blasphemy laws in Europe, Soeren Kern, in [...]

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The Madness of Qutb’s “Milestones”

Edward Cline — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 15:34:50 +0000

Reading Seyyid Qutb’s Milestones to pen a serious, informative, and critical review was an intellectual and literary chore I expected to be a cinch. Having finished reading this short, 160-page encomium for Islam, it is not so much a cinch as an exercise in nausea. Imagine assigning oneself the task of comparing a set of [...]

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The New Islamic Vigilantes of Speech

Edward Cline — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 08:04:28 +0000

If Muslims must shut down their minds or avert their eyes or blank out existence, then everyone must pull the plug on their vision and their knowledge. To do otherwise would be blasphemy, or discrimination, or victimization of Muslims. Respect Islam and Muslims, and you won’t be hurt or killed or censored. Or your mind and mouth merely gagged or your pen stilled. Or have your face scarred with acid. Or your throat slit.

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A Four Year Nightmare

Edward Cline — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:21:25 +0000

It is difficult to imagine just how low the United States has sunk when one is confronted with the prospect of a Secretary of State employing, with her full knowledge, someone whose ideology calls for the replacement of the Constitution with a barbaric code of law, the suspension of individual rights, and the submission of [...]

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Obama’s Pro-Islamic Rewriting of American History

Michael J Hurd — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 16:25:48 +0000

Barack Obama said the following at a recent White House dinner: Of all the freedoms we cherish as Americans, of all the rights that we hold sacred, foremost among them is freedom of religion, the right to worship as we choose. It’s enshrined in the First Amendment of our Constitution — the law of the [...]

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Andrew McCarthy and “Patriotic” Muslims

Edward Cline — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 14:56:41 +0000

Earlier this month author and former Federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy gave a terrific, informative, and comprehensive address at The Center for Security Policy at the National Press Club. It was principally an answer and a rebuttal to the criticisms of a group of five House representatives who called for a multi-agency investigation into the backgrounds [...]

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The Leftist-Islamic Alliance Against Freedom of Speech

Edward Cline — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 16:28:11 +0000

Robert Spencer, a tireless defender of freedom and the freedom of speech against Islam, was attacked recently in the New York Daily News and charged with having “inspired” Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik to go on his killing spree in July 2011. The writer, Nathan Lean, in his July 9th column, “Expose the Islamophobia industry,” [...]

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Free Speech No Excuse For Muslim Ideology of Violence

Michael J Hurd — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 03:01:45 +0000

Even in today’s crazy world, there’s still some justice to be found in the United States. A convert to Islam who helped promote death threats against the producers of the animated television show “South Park” after it featured a character representing the prophet Mohammad will serve eleven-and-a-half years in prison, a federal judge ordered Friday. [...]

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Watch What You Say: A Guide for Dhimmis

Edward Cline — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 13:25:12 +0000

Feeling a need to humor myself, and casting about for a way to cock a snook at the Department of Homeland Security and The Transportation Security Administration (in German, Die Abteilung der Heimatland-Sicherheit, and Die Transport-Sicherheitsverwaltung, one click of the heels and raised right arm, palm down, required for pronunciation, if you can manage it) [...]

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Mysticism is Alive in America

Michael J Hurd — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 17:43:58 +0000

According to a 2009 Harris Poll, when Americans are asked to “Please indicate for each one if you believe in it, or not,” the following results were revealing: 82% believe in God 76% believe in miracles 71% believe in survival of the soul after death 75% believe in Heaven Gallup and other polls have also [...]

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Sharia Law and The “Right” to Violate Rights

Michael J Hurd — Fri, 25 May 2012 02:52:07 +0000

Kansas Governor Sam Brownback signed a bill aimed at keeping state courts and agencies from using Islamic or other non-U.S. laws when making decisions, his office said on Friday. The bill doesn’t specifically mention Shariah law, which broadly refers to codes within the Islamic legal system. Instead, it says courts, administrative agencies or state tribunals [...]

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The Rise of the Religious Left

Michael J Hurd — Tue, 08 May 2012 17:18:07 +0000

Such religious Democrats are really the most consistent people on the political landscape today. To be in favor of religion, and in favor of the massive welfare/entitlement state originally brought about by liberal Democrats, they are endeavoring to practice their religion with integrity.

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Review: Did Muhammad Exist? An Inquiry into Islam’s Obscure Origins

Edward Cline — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 08:27:13 +0000

Reading Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel, The Hound of the Baskervilles, one cannot help but marvel at the thoroughness of Sherlock Holmes’s use of reason to piece together disparate clues and evidence and conclude that the least plausible explanation was the most obvious, true one. The legendary, spectral hound that haunted the Dartmoor bogs for two [...]

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Appetite for Cruelty

Edward Cline — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:21:14 +0000

Daniel Greenfield, during an interview on Jamie Glasov’s radio show on March 28th, was discussing Hitler and Stalin when he noted that they had an “appetite for cruelty.” That got me thinking about the nature and purpose of cruelty. Hitler and Stalin (and Mao of China) murdered millions by order or by policies they knew [...]

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Atheism: The Untouchable Subject

Michael J Hurd — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 18:49:53 +0000

There are two types of atheists. The first is psychological, the other philosophical. The psychological atheist is simply angry. The anger might be a reaction to family members who are religious, the policies or actions of various organized religions, or just generalized anger at “God.” Though, strictly speaking, the psychological atheist does not believe in [...]

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