TPM: "Conservative radio host Bryan Fischer on Wednesday doubled down on his "Muslims have no first amendment rights" comments from last month, this time arguing that the United States should "restrict immigration from Islamic countries." ........................."

In many ways, the hearing led by Senate Democrats on Tuesday was the dramatic antithesis of one House Republicans held earlier this month on homegrown Islamic radicalism.

Last night for a few brief shining television moments (captured here), Wafa Sultan, courageous author of the indispensable jeremiad "A G-d Who Hates," strove gamely to educate Bill O'Reilly -- often seemingly impenetrable by facts regarding Sharia -- about how Islamic Law, patte …

Rarely has a day gone by in the past few years where I haven't been told by someone that the Constitution of the United States of America is absolute, or that true freedom is defined in some fashion as the government not regulating our lives or our choices in any way, shape, or  …

Last week, legislators in Tennessee introduced a radical bill that would make "material support" for Islamic law punishable by 15 years in prison. The proposal marks a dramatic new step in the conservative campaign against Muslim-Americans.

Paul Barrow points out that "the real focus" of DHS "is not on prevention but on management of disasters" which "have created immense political backlash." But the real backlash will come when we attempt to use the new software & there's noone to show us how!

How can anyone justify threatening rape victims with a Bad-Conduct Discharge if they dare to speak out about their assaults? I'm just dying to hear the argument, if you've got one!

Fascinating debate about the MSM's power or lack thereof over the outcome of the revolution on the streets of Cairo....

Perhaps we should listen to more of what the "real socialists" have to say.... What do you think?

A rather unbiased piece (though tipped off in the end) by a "real socialist" (not your animus Obamacreation that you keep dreaming up around every left-leaning corner in DC today) about the facts on the ground & what you should know about the Egyptian revolution: that it's "a mas …

A genius piece of journalism on "the other Arizona" explores the state that time forgot, the liberal intelligentsia oft overlooked by the MSM: it starts with a story of how a (most likely Muslim) African scout led the first (Spanish) settlers to the gates of the Salt River & ends …

'The Hamas government in the Gaza Strip plans to raze another 180 Palestinian houses, on top of the 20 it recently demolished in the southern town of Rafah, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights charged on Thursday.

"Just moments after the new year began, a bomb outside a church in Alexandria killed 21 Coptic Christians. A week later, a Pakistani governor was murdered for standing by a Christian convict. The two cases dramatically illustrate the worsening plight of Christians in the Orient.

"The massacre of 21 Copts at a New Year's Eve mass has been called 'a watershed moment'.

Friends of Israel have long fumed over what they felt was the human rights community's disproportionate and unfair criticism of the Jewish state: Major rights organizations typically portray Israel as among the cruelest of nations, while this planet's actual dictatorships and …

"If you thought the Harry Potter series was an innocent children's fantasy story, you're wrong, an Iranian movie producer says: In reality, the Harry Potter books and movies are part of a "Zionist plot" to "spread their poison."

Sam Harris is a well known "Atheist spokesman" and usually bashes religion in general. (Here's another seed with an excellent discussion about his views on Atheism vs faith: Atheist Sam Harris: Why We Should Ditch Religion).

"In January, the Western world will welcome a new nation, South Sudan. The Islamic world will not. The coming independence of South Sudan, which holds most of the oil in the country now called Sudan, marks a loss of territory and of wealth for the Islamic world.

Italy's La Repubblica has a report on the phenomenon of widespread slavery in Mauritania.

"Pakistani authorities have arrested a doctor on suspicion of violating the country's contentious blasphemy laws after he threw away the business card of a man who shared the name of the Prophet.

"Growing up in Richmond, B.C., I, like more than a few Canadian children, dreamed of becoming secretary-general of the United Nations. The ideal of engaged global citizenship enraptured me, a political refugee from Idi Amin's Uganda.

"A University of Colorado student who started wearing hijab after converting to Islam is fighting the Boulder County Jail's insistence that she remove her headscarf for a booking photo, saying that to do so would violate her religious beliefs.

The Western Wall belongs to Muslims and is an integral part of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Haram al-Sharif [the Noble Sanctuary], according to an official paper published on Monday by the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Information in Ramallah.

"In early November, in the dusty city of Sheikhupura in Pakistan's heartland, Asia Bibi, an illiterate Christian woman and mother of five, was sentenced to death by hanging under the country's blasphemy laws. Her crime? She allegedly insulted the Prophet Muhammad."

A Muslim woman was banned from entering a roller-skating rink because her headscarf breached the 'no hoods' rule. Marisol Rodriguez-Colon, 40, was 'mortified' when she turned up to the Ron-A-Roll rink in Vernon, Connecticut only to be refused entry. When she asked why,  …

As the US government retaliates against an American for refusing to allow airport security to grope his genitals, the nation's Homeland Security secretary considers waving the intrusive "pat-downs" for Muslim women who consider them offensive. Hey Janet, how about some con …

"Britain's Islam Channel broke broadcasting regulations by condoning marital rape, encouraging violence against women, and promoting an anti-Israel, pro-Hamas line, the country's broadcast regulator Ofcom ruled Monday.

Asia's case dates back to June 2009 when she was asked to fetch water while out working in the fields. But a group of Muslim women labourers objected, saying that as a non-Muslim, she should not touch the water bowl.

Christians in Iraq have been, and not for the first time, deliberately targeted in a major terrorist attack.

A Saudi Arabian court sentenced a man to five years in prison and 500 lashes for having sexual relations with another man, Jeddah-based Okaz reported.

Turkey's ruling party is trying to create an official form of Alevism that can be subsumed into its Sunni-led Directorate of Religious Affairs while delegitimizing all other forms of the faith, an Alevi labor union leader says.

The Arab and Muslim world are, by nature, chronically violent. In addition to tribal and family feuds, religious and political wars are ever-constant, as are slavers, gun-runners, pirates, tyrants, torturers, and garden-variety thieves and gangsters.

""I tried to prevent (being touched) with my hands but Mrs. Michelle held her hands too far toward me (so) we touched," Information Minister Tifatul Sembiring told tens of thousands of followers on Twitter.

In many ways, State Question 755 will likely have little impact either in Oklahoma or elsewhere -- Muslims quickly point out they never lobbied for shariah law, and many wouldn't support its use anyway.

After issuing the veil ban on Sunday, which bars the full-face niqab veil from both public and private universities, Syria is now heading into waters that have proved difficult for Egypt. Courts there struck down similar bans.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently asked Palestinian peace negotiators to acknowledge Israel as a Jewish state. Some critics have called this move cynical, because Palestinian leaders are unlikely to offer such an acknowledgment.

Iran has imposed new restrictions on 12 university social sciences deemed to be based on Western schools of thought and therefore incompatible with Islamic teachings, state radio reported Sunday.

A court in the United Arab Emirates has convicted a Muslim man for having gone a little too far in beating his wife and 23-year-old daughter because the punishment "left marks."

In 2007, I wrote a blog about the ludicrous comments of Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat, who summarily dismissed the prospect of recognizing Israel as a Jewish state. "No state in the world connects its national identity to its religious identity," he declared.

In Gaza City, girls as young as 13 years old are restricted in their activities under pressure of Hamas and their ultra conservative interpretation of Islam.

The EU has been fed on a constant diet of anti-Israel propaganda from the arabs for the last 35 years. Arafat was a true nephew to his Nazi Uncle, the "Grand Mufti" of Jerusalem, who was dear friends with Hitler.

JAKARTA, Indonesia, October 13 (CDN) — Islamic organizations have mounted a campaign against the planned construction of Mother Teresa Catholic Church in West Java Province, where Christian leaders report 20 other churches have faced Muslim hostility since 2009.

On Tuesday, as his trial resumed in Amsterdam on various charges of offending Muslims, Dutch freedom fighter Geert Wilders won one victory and suffered one defeat.

We in the West usually take movies for granted and accord them little more significance than mere entertainment. But our Islamic enemies, like the Communists and Nazis before them, fully recognize the cultural power of cinema and work hard to control it.

A new Public Policy Survey of New York Republicans shed some light on the paradoxical behavior of the GOP. It turns out that the self titled Party of Family Values would rather build a strip club on Ground Zero than a mosque. 21% of Republicans supported the strip club, and only 4% supported the mosque.

Recently, Christianne Amanpour hosted a panel discussion meant to explore the misunderstood delineation between moderate and extremist Islam.

"I am on trial, but on trial with me is the freedom of expression of many Dutch citizens." So said Wilders as his trial reopened in Amsterdam.

Discussed in this essay are the laws and status of those persons in Islamic lands who are not Muslims. This group is mainly composed of Jews and Christians, called dhimmis.

What if, instead of slavery, the United States had murdered all of the African Americans? What if, instead of relocating some Native American tribes, they were completely wiped out? This annihilation is essentially what happened with the Armenians in the early 1900's and the Kurd …

So here's what I think is going on with the current Islamophobia. It's another case of that jealous storm god thundering through men's voices. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam share the same god in the sky.

One of the 2002 Bali bombers, Amrozi bin Nurhasin, on trial in an Indonesian courtroom and headed toward execution, shouted out the message he wanted his crime to convey: "Jews: Remember Khaibar. The army of Muhammad is coming back to defeat you."

Unlike many other actresses of her era, she refuses to apologize for any of her numerous risqué roles, and even defends her sexual freedom in a way that is almost unheard of in this increasingly conservative country.

After a series of jokes about conservative that sounded -- and were received -- more like a stand-up act then a political speech, Coulter told the assembled (and predominantly wealthy) conservative gay crowd why they should oppose same sex marriage, adding, "I should warn you: I' …

Since much of sharia law is contrary to British law and public policy, in theory they would be unlikely to be upheld in a British court.

Both the U.S. and Thailand agree that inserting Americans into the fight could transform Thailand into the terror war's next international front. Neither country wants to attract global networks supplying cash, weapons and young ideologues willing to die.

Somali-born author, feminist and former Dutch Parliament Member Ayaan Hirsi Ali argues that America's "War on Terror" should more accurately be called a "War on Islam."

JERUSALEM // The punishment of death will be meted out to those who sell land to Israelis, a Palestinian court in Jerusalem ruled on Sunday.

September 21, 2010 on SBS Insight (Australia): "The French Senate has voted to ban the burqa in public places. Similar laws are being considered in Belgium, Spain and Italy.

In a SPIEGEL interview, Egyptian-German political scientist Hamed Abdel-Samad talks about his childhood as the son of an imam in Egypt, why he thinks Islam is a danger to society and his theories about the inevitable decline of the Muslim world.

President Obama will use next week's annual gather ing of world leaders at the United Nations to highlight a looming catastrophe in Sudan -- but not to actually prevent it. At least, not the way he's going.

Molly Norris, the writer who called for a world draw Muhammad day, is not a here, not admirable, not fighting a good fight. She did something stupid and for no rational reason in willfully insulting 1.2 billion people. She has even admitted she was wrong.

- A cartoonist has disappeared from public view because she's on an Islamic cleric's hitlist for declaring "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" last spring, according to a newspaper that ran her drawings.

In late May of 2010, Wellesley, Massachusetts public middle school students took a field trip to the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center - a controversial Saudi-funded mega-mosque run by the Muslim American Society of Bostn.

Religiously, Muslims are permitted to lie or use deception if it is used to further the cause of Islam. This is generally referred to as Taqiyya.

Machete-wielding rioters hacked at least 200 people to death yesterday in the latest wave of religious violence in Nigeria.

"It would be another test of a question they wondered when they first set off from New York three weeks earlier: Is America still the accepting nation that embraced our forebears or has it reached a new level of intolerance?

In the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, practically every American understood and agreed with a powerful two-word sentiment that summed up the nation's attitude during those traumatic days: "never forget." Nine years later, it's clear that great swathes of the pop …

On September 10, 2010 a South African high court banned a Muslim activist from organizing a "Bible burning day" at the Library Gardens in Johannesburg on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The event was meant to be a response to the planned Qur'an burning in Florida by Pastor Terry Jones.

An Islamic intellectual organization, The Scholars of Truth, launched a court interdict to prevent Mohammed Vawda from organizing the event. The defense, led by Attorneys Zehir Omar and Yasmin Omar, argued that the protest would be insulting to all religions and would only serve to divide people. Zehir Omar and Yasmin Omar are a married Muslim couple.

While discussing a significant event here in the United States with a friend of mine, we discovered that another friend, Robert, has a life story that truly speaks volumes to that event.

A radio interviewer asked me the other day if I thought bigotry was the only reason why someone might oppose the Islamic center in Lower Manhattan. No, I don't.

Tensions between Denmark and the Muslim world could be reignited as the man who approved the controversial Mohammed newspaper cartoons prepares to publish a book

Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, has also been sentenced to 99 lashes for a photo published of her without a headscarf, according to her son.

Four score and ten years ago women won the right to vote in the United States. And thirty years ago, in 1980, I stood with the Israeli delegation in Copenhagen at the United Nations conference on women—the true precursor of the anti-Zionist conference in Durban in 2001.

There is a book that has inspired people to kill others, causing grief, panic, and sorrow for millions upon millions of people. A book that has changed the lives of others, and has ended the lives of others still. I'm sure you know the book I'm talking about, too.

An Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning was subjected to a mock execution by hanging. In preparation for her death, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani wrote her will and embraced her cellmates in Tabriz prison.

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who has developed close ties with his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has offered asylum to Mohammadi Ashtiani, prompting an embarrassing public rejection of his offer by Iran.

President Obama's "story"goes like this: adherents of Islam are comprised of two groups, "radical Muslims" and "moderate Muslims." The "radical Muslims" believe in the use of violence, because they are "against freedom." Fortunately, "radical Muslims" represent a very …

It came as no surprise when I learned this morning that the mosque protests in New York City have assisted terrorists in their recruiting efforts.

I was very disturbed to read this story about this Sri Lanken domestic worker abused by a Saudi couple she worked for. Here is a link to more information about the abuses of foreign domestic workers in the countries of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, UAE, and Kuwait.

The al-Rahman mosque in Orlando, FL, a Muslim Brotherhood owned and operated property, is caught funding terrorism via George Galloway, self-admitted Hamas fundraiser, and Imam Mahdi Bray, public Hamas supporter.

A reader brought to my attention a post that Carol Mann, former LPGA star and special ambassador to the World Golf Hall of Fame, wrote on her public Facebook page last week. Here's the screen grab.

"A Jaffa youth choir made up of Jews and Arabs girls isn't just sharing a message of coexistence with audiences throughout Israel, it is also practicing that message."

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg took a shot at those criticizing the construction of a Muslim community center and mosque near Ground Zero on Tuesday, asking rhetorically...

The principles behind American secular law are similar to Shariah law - that we protect life, liberty and property, that we provide for the common welfare, that we maintain a certain amount of modesty.

An AP writer has a provocative thesis: the availability of porn in Iraq mirrors the level of freedom and security there. Is he right? And what would that look like?

Half the people in the world commit this sin against god: they are born women. It's an astounding thing that any women at all accept Christianity, Judaism, or Islam; these are profoundly misogynistic faiths.

Many of the tropes of classic anti-Semitism have been revived and given new force on the American right.

Daisy Khan is shocked. In a phone conversation with her minutes ago she said she couldn't believe that what had started out as "a community center for everyone in the neighborhood, to scale up and build up people of all religions has become so skewed.

After crunching the numbers and realizing that backing a mosque near Ground Zero, plays to average Americans about as well as flag burning on 4th of July, the Dems have emerged with a new talking point. The Republicans are "politicizing" Ground Zero.

"Hamas accused the Palestinian Authority on Tuesday of "waging war on Islam and Allah" by detaining and firing hundreds of imams and banning the recitation of the Koran over loudspeakers on mosques.

The comedy was an episode in Saudi Arabia's most celebrated satirical series, Tash Ma Tash or No Big Deal, a take-off of social prejudices shown annually during the holy month of Ramadan.

"It's Not Just About Israel" "The whole emphasis on Israel's salience in this matter, and of the related idea of subcontracting a strike to the Israeli Defense Forces, is an evasion, somewhat ethnically tinged, of what is an international responsibility."

"Breaking ranks for President Barack Obama on a controversial election-year issue, the Senate's top Democrat on Monday came out against plans to build a mosque near the site of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.