Predictably, "Aiman Mazyek of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany said in a statement: ‘Merkel is honoring the cartoonist who in our view trampled on our Prophet and trampled on all Muslims’." Are your prophet and religion really so fragile that one man’s drawing can "trample" them? No,…

Brava! Now, why are voices like this so rare among Muslims in the West? "Get Over the Quran Burning," by Asra Q. Nomani at the Daily Beast, September 8 (thanks to Axel): On the plan to burn Qurans this weekend, I say to Muslims: Let’s get over the symbolic insult…

And it’s about time. "This Is Where We Begin to Say No: On the Ground Zero mosque, Americans reject the opinion elites that empower the Islamists," by the peerless Andrew McCarthy at National Review, September 8: [...] Americans have had our fill. We are willing to live many lies. This…

On a day when dhimmi Christian leaders stood with Hamas-linked ISNA to defame the 70% Americans who oppose the Islamic supremacist mega-mosque at Ground Zero, it was refreshing to see this piece, reminding us that not all Christian believers today are dupes of Islamic supremacists. "Say No to the Ground…

Wishing a happy and sweet new year to all Jewish Jihad Watchers, and to all Jihad Watchers of whatever background who are friends of Israel. Israel is, as we have maintained for years, on the front lines of the global jihad, and stands today more threatened than ever before, while…

If this were a flag-burning, do you think Holder, Clinton, Gibbs and all the rest would be speaking this way? I don’t support the Qur’an burning, as I don’t like the idea of burning books in general, but what Holder, Petraeus, Clinton and the rest seem to have forgotten, if…

Narain Kataria, President of the Indian-American Intellectuals Forum, explains….

A must-see lecture by Moorthy Muthuswamy….

An update on this story, bearing in mind that Pakistan’s track record on convictions leaves much to be desired. It will remain to be seen whether the potential consequences for Pakistan if this attack had fully succeeded will generate enough of a sense of urgency to result in meaningful convictions…

The same questions go Nigeria as for Lebanon and Pakistan: How much do you like having a country? How much do you care about the way of life that was still possible a generation ago, but is now under threat, and about the ideals set forth when your country became…