The pundits, the chattering classes and the Beltway elite are all worried about Afghanistan. They think it’s a hopeless cause, a “quagmire,” and, most damning of all in their minds, “Vietnam all over again.” But the new commanding general of U.S. Central Command, General James N. Mattis, says these worrywarts are all wrong about Afghanistan.

Well, it’s official: Molly Norris, the Seattle artist who responded to the recent South Park Muhammed controversy by proposing an “Everybody Draw Muhammed Day,” has been pronounced the target of a death fatwa by Islamic cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.
We knew this was coming. The world is painfully aware that the murderous rage of Islamists is on [...]

General Mattis’ appointment as CENTCOM commander — or, to be more precise, the reaction to his appointment (amongst reporters and by the Pentagon leadership) — raise troubling doubts about whether America’s political elites understand and are committed to free speech.

A few years ago a prominent American moderate Muslim insisted to me that in Uzbekistan Islam was moderate, peaceful, and pluralistic. Islamic Tolerance Alert from Uzbekistan: “Uzbek authorities force Christians, including Jehovah’s Witnesses, to go underground,” from AsiaNews, June 21 (thanks to C. Cantoni): Tashkent (AsiaNews/F18) – “For more than…

America’s new intelligence strategy to disrupt terrorist cells and training operations.

I will be constantly updating this list. Please email me at jeffrey@horowitzfreedomcenter.org with any other information. Arizona State Boston University – (Students for Justice in Palestine) Brandeis University (Stand Up for Justice) Brooklyn College (The Palestinian Club at Brooklyn College) Brown (Students for Justice in Palestine) Cal St. Long Beach Central Connecticut State University Columbia [...]

Bat Ye’or, whose groundbreaking historical research on dhimmitude opened my eyes, made sense of a great deal I was seeing in Islamic doctrine and history but which was not explained elsewhere, and inspired me to do the work I am doing now, speaks at the Vienna Forum in Austria….

Last month Comedy Central made headlines by censoring an episode of South Park out of fear for violence from radical Islamists. What was once known as a network that was unafraid of offending anyone has now became a network of cowards. As expected, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone stood their ground against the [...]

Writing for the Huffington Post Eboo Patel reports that “a few days back, small groups of college students atNorthwestern, Illinois and Wisconsin — angry that Comedy Central had been intimidated into censoring a South Park episode depicting the Prophet Muhammad – chalked their quads with stick figures and labeled these drawings ‘Prophet Muhammad’.” He continues:
One of the members [...]

Funny, that. No Christians charged at Vilks, or recited the Gloria Patri or anything similar as as all hell broke loose in the lecture hall. “Cartoonist Lars Vilks attacked for showing Prophet Mohammed in gay film,” by Patrik Jonsson for the May 13 (thanks to Awake): Swedish cartoon artist Lars…