How ‘Moderate’ and ‘Secular’ Is Fatah?

- Posted in The Palestinian Authority
"We are all capable," the writer George Orwell once warned, "of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts to show that we were right. But, he added, "sooner or later a false belief bumps up against a solid reality" — and   read more ...

The Root of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Classic Islamic View of Jews

- Posted in Islam and Related
Summary ... For a devout Muslim, Muhammad was the ideal Muslim. All Muslims should act as he acted. Therefore, the way in which Muhammad acted towards the Jews is how all Muslims should act towards them. Despite most people wanting to believe otherwise, this is true source of the Arab-Israeli   read more ...

The Myth of Arab Innocence

- Posted in Arab / Islamic Terror
Summary ... Muslims have always declared that they have been tolerant towards Jews. However, history has proven otherwise. Islam has demonstrated systemic, juridical oppression, exploitation, and humiliation of Jews, ranking them at the bottom of the social barrel in the Islamic domain. The myth of   read more ...

De Tocqueville Versus Lewis and Pipes

- Posted in Arab / Islamic Terror
Summary ... Israeli policy-makers and opinion-makers — and those who organize international conferences in Jerusalem involving Islam — should be wary of relying too much on the views of Messrs. Lewis and Pipes. Anyone who has read Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America knows of his   read more ...

Explaining the Arab-Israeli Conflict Through Numbers

- Posted in Arab-Israeli Conflict
Summary ... This is a brief synopsis of the moral arguments in the Arab-Israeli conflict. For the many readers who have requested a brief synopsis of the moral arguments in the Arab-Israeli conflict, I offer the following list of numerical data. Number of times Jerusalem is mentioned in the Old   read more ...

Agenda of Islam - A War Between Civilizations

- Posted in Islam and Related
There Is No Fundamental Islam "Fundamentalism" is a word that came from the heart of the Christian religion. It means faith that goes by the word of the Bible. Fundamental Christianity, or going with the Bible, does not mean going around and killing people. There is no fundamental Islam. There is   read more ...

The Mythical Moderate Muslim

- Posted in Islam and Related
Primitive tribes offer sacrifices hoping to mollify whatever nonexistent beings they believe in. The New York Times columnist Paul Krugman belongs to a very sophisticated tribe that, according to the recently retired Malaysian Prime Minister, rules the world by proxy. One would think Mr. Krugman   read more ...