ISLAM

The left and islam: A love story

At some future date, when what Andrew C. McCarthy calls “the freedom culture” is again secure (we hope), the jihad-opposition will see itself divided into two camps in histories written about our current time: those who ineffectually supported efforts to stop “terrorism” and other supposedly generic outbreaks of violence in such lands as Iraq and Afghanistan; and those, far fewer in number (at least in that difficult decade following 9/11), who recognized terrorism as but one aspect of the civilizational assault emanating from expansionist Islam.

By Diana West , June 09, 2010

Europe gets it on fighting Islamization

When the Netherlands’ Party for Freedom leader Geert Wilders recently addressed voters in Almere, a Dutch city of 200,000 where his party handily won elections this week, he told them what to expect as his once-tiny, anti-Islamization party started flexing its new political muscle. Aside from lower taxes and other political staples, his plans for this city not far from Amsterdam include a ban on Muslim headscarves.

By Diana West, Washington Times , March 10, 2010

Fort Hood leaves Americans unprotected

“Do you believe in ‘radical Islam’?” the famous Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders once asked me. The occasion was a banquet last summer at the Reagan Library outside of Los Angeles where later that evening Wilders would receive a Hero of Conscience award from the American Freedom Alliance. I would have the honor of introducing him. “What did you say?” I could barely hear him over the speaker at the podium elaborating on the perils of, yes, “radical Islam.”

By Diana West, Washington Times , January 27, 2010

Anti-Islamic Dutch lawmaker speaks at U.S. college

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Amid tight security and a large turnout of protesters, Dutch right-wing lawmaker Geert Wilders told an assembly of Temple University students that Europe and America must fight an ongoing “stealth jihad” that threatens democracy and free speech.

October 20, 2009

Elections in Iran make nuclear talks harder

President Barack Obama went easy on Iran in his big June 4 speech in Cairo so as not to become an issue in last weekend’s elections. Some good it did. The ruling powers in Iran — rigidly hostile to the United States and determined to develop nuclear weapons — rigged the vote to restore radical Islamist President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to power.

By Morton Kondracke, Roll Call , June 23, 2009

Mr. President, visit Pvt. Long’s family

The last thing “President Hussein” did not do before flying Magic Carpet One to “the Kingdom” was .... OK. Hang on a sec. I’m just trying to get into the Islamo-spirit of being a citizen of what the 44th president called, and I quote: “one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.” Yes, Barack Obama was talking about the United States, which, with somewhere between 2 million and 3 million Muslims tops (not all of whom are citizens) doesn’t exactly sound like Mecca for Islam, literally or figuratively.

By Diana West, Washington Times , June 10, 2009

Obama cites Quran in speech

President Barack Obama showed respect for Islam by quoting from the Quran in his speech Thursday but did so in a way meant to resonate with Christians and Jews as well.

June 05, 2009

Obama visits Saudi king before speech

Opening a mission to write a new chapter on Islam and the West, President Barack Obama consulted Wednesday with the Saudi king “in the place where Islam began,” prelude to a high-stakes speech in Egypt meant to ease long-held Muslim grievances against the United States.

By By Jennifer Loven, The Associated Press , June 04, 2009

Pope meets Muslim scholars, urges better ties

Christians and Muslims must overcome their misunderstandings, Pope Benedict XVI told Muslim clergy and scholars Thursday as he pressed for greater freedom of worship for non-Muslims in the Islamic world.

November 07, 2008

We are losing Europe to Islam

With Wall Street convulsing, and the White House race intensifying, the question “Who lost Europe?” is on no one’s lips, let alone minds. Indeed, the question begs another: “Is Europe lost?”

By Diana West , September 24, 2008

Roars about Russia, bare whispers about Islam

Amazing how quickly the punditocracy switches maps, time zones and histories, simultaneously mastering new combinations of consonants and vowels, to report and react to a “surprise” conflict in Georgia. It’s almost hard to recall that, just a few days ago, the most urgent questions confounding most of the media had to do with just how narcissistic John Edwards really is, or what the ramifications of Barack Obama’s plans to announce his vice presidential pick via text message might finally be.

By Diana West , August 20, 2008

Free speech jilted by a romance novel

Reading about the late Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, we are reminded of his epic force of will — despite the threat to life and limb posed by the Soviet police state — to bear witness, to document, to record everything he could about totalitarianism in the USSR.

By Diana West , August 13, 2008

Britain is letting Sharia sneak in

Strange, the apparent lack of public alarm in Britain over an extensive new poll showing that significant minorities of Muslim students at some of Britain’s better colleges and universities embrace the most threatening aspects of Islam. These include the conviction that killing in the name of religion can be justified (32 percent), belief that men and women shouldn’t mix freely (40 percent), support for Sharia (Islamic law) in Britain (40 percent), and support for a global caliphate (33 percent) based in Sharia, among other repressive tenets.

By Diana West , August 06, 2008

A Swiss ‘extremist’ against Islamic law

“Explain the minaret ban,” I asked. I was sitting in the side room of a house, overlooking a flat plot somewhat larger than the trampoline outside. Beyond that trampoline, still visible in the evening light, rose the Swiss Alps. Across the table, Oskar Freysinger sat poised to address my query over some cups of espresso, speaking as a local leader of the Swiss People’s Party. Or perhaps I should say — a local leader of the “extremist,” “bigoted” and “xenophobic” Swiss People’s Party. That’s how this largest political party in tiny Switzerland is routinely discussed, or, rather, dismissed by elites, glitterati and other social deadweights.

By Diana West , July 23, 2008

School for scoundrels

Despite a report by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom that the Islamic Saudi Academy in Alexandria, Va., has continued to use textbooks that teach hatred of everyone not of their specific brand of faith, the U.S. State Department has yet to act to close down the school. Officials of the academy, which has about 1,000 students in pre-kindergarten through grade 12, promised to excise passages in the textbooks that disparage Jews and Christians, but according to an examination by The Washington Post for the 2006-2007 school year, though “much of the controversial material had been removed, at least one book still contained passages that extolled jihad and martyrdom, called for victory over one’s enemies and said the killing of adulterers and apostates was ‘justified.’”

By Cal Thomas , July 18, 2008