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4/2/2009 | News | Jeff Jacoby
Interview with Geert Wilders on Islam and freedom of speech
Geert Wilders is a member of the Dutch Parliament and head of the Freedom Party. In 2008 he released "Fitna," a controversial film about the Koran and jihadist violence. Wilders was condemned as an anti-Muslim agitator but also hailed as a defender of Western values and free speech. In January, a Dutch court ordered Wilders prosecuted for allegedly inciting hatred against Islam. Last month he was invited to screen "Fitna" at Westminster, but the British government barred him from entering the country. He was recently interviewed by Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby, who prepared these edited excerpts (click on link.
4/2/2009 | News | Clare M. Lopez
Rise of the 'Iran Lobby': Teheran's front groups move on-- and into-- the Obama Administration
A complex network of individuals and organizations with ties to the clerical regime in Tehran is pressing forward in seeming synchrony to influence the new U.S. administration’s policy towards the Islamic Republic of Iran. Spearheaded by a de facto partnership between the National Iranian-American Council (NIAC), the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and other organizations serving as mouthpieces for the mullahs’ party line, the network includes well-known American diplomats, congressional representatives, figures from academia and the think tank world.
3/23/2009 | News | Philip Johnston
Time to speak up about Britain's Islamists
The British Government is reluctant to call the threat Islamist and prefers to refer to it as "international terrorism". It clearly has an international dimension, but most of the 80 or so people convicted and jailed in Britian for terrorist offences in the past three years or so are British or have lived there – as, indeed, were the perpetrators of the July 7 atrocities in 2005.
3/23/2009 | News | Indira A.R. Lakshmanan
Obama Plan Would Link Pakistan Aid to Taliban Fight
U.S. military analysts and officers have advised increasing the size of the Afghan National Army to as many as 250,000 troops from less than 90,000, and the police to as many as 140,000 from fewer than 80,000, said Ken Katzman, senior Afghan specialist at the Congressional Research Service in Washington.
3/13/2009 | News | Nina Shea
Jihad, K–12
What do textbooks used in the Islamic Saudi Academy in northern Virginia teach? Are Muslim students in the United States being encouraged to break American laws? What the Islamic Saudi Academy teaches is important. This Saudi government entity in our midst is now educating some 1,000 students and has said that its mission is to be “the premier educational institution” for the American Muslim community.
2/16/2009 | News |
Muslim Television Channel Founder Charged With Beheading His Wife
Muzzammil Hassan, who founded Bridges TV in November 2004 to counter anti-Islam stereotypes, surrendered to police Thursday after wife, who had filed for divorce, was found beheaded.
2/13/2009 | News | International Free Press Society
An Open Letter to the Government of the UK
Dutch parliamentarian barred from entering the UK. Chilling effect expected on free speech there.
2/13/2009 | News |
Female suicide bomber kills 40 in Iraq
A female suicide bomber attacked a tent filled with women and children resting from a pilgrimage to a Shiite holy city south of Baghdad on Friday, killing 40 people and injuring 60 others, said officials. It was the deadliest attack in Iraq this year and the third straight day of bombings against Shiite pilgrims.
1/26/2009 | News | Chad Groening
European countries crack down on 'hate speech'
An author and critic of Islam says the recent decision by a Dutch court to prosecute a Dutch lawmaker for comparing the Koran to Hitler's Mein Kampf does not bode well for the future of free speech rights in the United States. But now the Amsterdam Appeals Court has ruled that prosecutors will launch a hate-speech case against Wilders. Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch, a project of the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He says this case is part of a larger effort to criminalize any discussion of Islam to which jihadists object.