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SteynOnline 23 February 2011
By Mark Steyn

At the New York Conservative Party conference in Albany the other week, I was asked about the party's role in state politics. I replied that in a multiparty system it's very important to have some sort of force to the right of the right-of-center party - to arrest the tendency of

the "mainstream" right to drift across the spectrum and wind up taking the rest of us to the same destination as the lefties want to go but at a slightly slower speed. A useful illustration of that role can be seen in Europe's current debate. Asked on TV about David Cameron's recent attack

Wall Street Journal  22 February 2011
By GEERT WILDERS

Defending the right to say that Islam is primarily a totalitarian ideology aiming for world domination

"The lights are going out all over Europe," British Foreign Secretary Edward Grey famously remarked on the eve of World War I. I am reminded of those words whenever I read about Europeans being dragged into court for so-called hate-speech crimes.

Recently, Danish journalist Lars Hedegaard, president of the International Free Press Society, had to stand trial in Copenhagen because he had criticized Islam. Mr. Hedegaard was acquitted, but only on the technicality that he had not known that his words, expressed in a private conversation, were being taped.

ProphetofDoom.net 21 February 2011
By Craig Winn
Also available as PDF and MP3 Audio.

The Qur'an starts off no better than Muhammad himself. The prophet's first revelation is a fiasco. But so as not to prejudice the historic beginnings of Islam, I shall let the first Muslims do it for me.

Liberties Alliance 21 February 2011

In his article entitled ‘The case of the part-time pedophile’ in reference to the ‘Prophet’ Mohammed’s relationship with his child bride Aisha, Steyn makes his views about this conviction very clear. Steyn rightly refers to these kinds of trials as heresy trials.

Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff was found guilty of "denigrating religious teachings of a legally recognized religion”. This conviction appears to rest on the idea that Mohammed was not a paedophile because he was still married to Aisha, who he supposedly married when she was six and consummated the marriage when she was nine, when she was 18. Mr Steyn states:

Wall Street Journal  18 February 2011
By Ayaan Hirsi Ali 

For a sense of the kind of Egypt the Muslim Brotherhood wants, start with its motto

'Allah is our objective; the Prophet is our leader; the Quran is our law; Jihad is our way; dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope." So goes the motto of the Muslim Brotherhood.

What's extraordinary about this maxim is the succinct way that it captures the political dimension of Islam. Even more extraordinary is the capacity of these five pillars of faith to attract true believers. But the most remarkable thing of all is the way the Brotherhood's motto seduces Western liberals.

Dianawest.net 18 February 2011
By Diana West

Caroline Glick wrote a column this month to explain what she calls "Israeli indifference to democratic currents in Arab societies" -- an apparent paradox, it seems, to American naifs who believe that a functioning ballot box is all a society needs to join the fraternity of enlightened nations where individual rights are protected in the enshrinement of freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and the blessed like.

Coos Bay World 17 February 2011
By Diana West

Guess who said the following?

'The earliest defenders of Islam would defend their more numerous and better-equipped oppressors because the early Muslims loved death -- dying for the sake of almighty Allah -- more than the oppressors of Muslims loved life. This must be the case when we are fighting life's other battles."

prophetofdoom.net 16 February 2011

Chairman Muhammad settled into his public housing project and immediately began to act like the fool he had become. Ishaq:235 "In the year of the Prophet's arrival, Abu Umamah died from a rattling in the throat.

The Messenger said, 'His death is an evil thing for the Jews and the Arab Hypocrites for they are sure to say, "If Muhammad were really a prophet his companion would not have died." But truly, I have no power with Allah either for myself or for my companions.'" Truer words were never spoken.

Gates of Vienna 15 February 2011

VERDICT: GUILTY ON ONE COUNT, NOT GUILTY ON THE OTHER. LIVE BLOGGING HAS CONCLUDED.

Today was the third and final day of the "hate speech” trial against Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff. Below is the brief live-blog for the occasion.

To recapitulate: the charges against Elisabeth were "incitement to hatred” and "denigration of religious beliefs of a legally recognized religion” for giving informational seminars on Islam.

EuropeNews 9 February 2011
Book essay by Henrik R Clausen

Because They Hate is a very personal book. It is basically autobiographic, describing the life of Brigitte Gabriel, a Lebanese Christian who grew up in docile countryside settings, with nothing in her childhood to suggest an exiting and dangerous life, taking her first to Israel and ultimately to the US.

The book takes a largely chronological approach to explaining what went on in southern Lebanon, primarily in those fateful years in the late 1970's. From 1975 onwards a strange kind of war took place, a war inadequately described as a "Civil war" in the West, but what was in reality an Islamic insurgency supported and sponsored by the Soviet Union.

This is something we in the West have been rather complacent about: Sure, there was a civil war going on. Sure, people were getting killed. But most certainly both parties to the war are equally to blame, and the Christians have weapons, too, Why should we in the West bother, not to mention get involved directly, or even take part?