Before being adopted by some on the loony left to refer half-heartedly to Bush-won red states, the phrase was used to refer to the fight against communism -- aka the red menace. There were people in the West who would rather die than accept a tyrannical nihilist rule. In today's Chicago Sun-Times, columnist Mark Steyn […]
It just comes from an unexpeced source. A man convicted of sexually assaulting an Indonesian housekeeper and keeping her virtually as a slave was sentenced Thursday to 27 years to life in prison. Homaidan Al-Turki, 37, denied the charges and blamed anti-Muslim prejudice for the case against him. He said prosecutors persuaded the housekeeper to […]
Hopefully, by the time you got up this Sunday morning, Fox News reporter Steve Centanni and cameraman Olaf Wiig will be free. In the meantime, they've converted to Islam. Earlier in the day a video was released by the kidnappers showing the two prisoners in good health. During the recording, the journalists claim that they […]
The Brits have broken up a plot to blow up U.K. to U.S.-bound airliners in mid-air. No word on the identities of the suspects -- but I'm going out on a limb with a prediction that they're not evangelical Christians.
Last week the Canadians arrested 17 men who are allegedly part of a variety of terror plots. The suspects reportedly planned to storm parliament, behead the prime minister and detonate a fertilizer bomb three times the size of the one that destroyed the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Sadly, the state of Canadian journalism […]
The U.S. Commission has come out with its annual report on International Religious Freedom. [PDF format] It should come as no surprise that "our friends the Saudis" come out rather poorly. I'm understating it. Although the government has publicly taken the position—reiterated again in early 2006—that it permits non-Muslims to worship in private, the guidelines […]
The name isn't familiar. Neither is her face to the overwhelming majority of Americans. Atwar Bahjat was one of Iraq's new breed of television journalists. In a country experiencing a free press for the first time in decades, newspapers have been experiencing a boom that American newspapers can only dream of and government run television […]
"United 93" hits the theaters this weekend, and it's gotten largely positive reviews. The movie review compilation site RottenTomatoes.com notes the movie, with a 93 percent positive rating, is the best-reviewed drama so far this year. Of course, there's that 7 percent who don't like the film. Among them is the Union-Tribune's own David Elliott. […]
A Michigan State mechanical engineering professor is in hot water for "speaking truth to power." I.S. Wichman had the gall to criticize the university's Muslim Students Association as they protested the blasphemous Danish Muhammed cartoons. Dear Moslem Association: As a professor of Mechanical Engineering here at MSU I intened [sic] to protest your protest. I […]
I must confess that I'm generally not a big fan of the raunchy Comedy Central cartoon series "South Park." However, you've got to give series creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker credit for being equal opportunity offenders. On Wednesday night, the latest "South Park" episode was to feature a satirical take on the Muhammed cartoon […]