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Guilty: Muslim Family in Canada Convicted in Honor Killings

February 2, 2012  •  PJ Media

On Sunday, January 29, 2012, two years and seven months after the bodies of four Canadian women all from the same family were found murdered, after a ten week trial, and after fifteen hours of deliberations, a jury voted "guilty" to first degree murder for three other members of the Shafia family.

Although I myself initially hailed this as possibly a turning point in Canada in terms of the nation's failed multicultural policy, I now wonder why the life sentence, which in Canada means 25 years without parole, was not 25 years without parole for each life coldly snuffed out.

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Will guilty verdict in Canadian 'honor killing' trial be a turning point for justice?

January 29, 2012  •  Fox News

On January 29, after a ten-week trial and fifteen hours of deliberations, a seven woman, five man jury returned with a verdict of guilty to first degree murder for all three Afghan-Canadians who were charged in the pre-meditated murder of four female members of the polygamous Shafia family.

The convicted are each facing 25 years without parole.

Mohammed Shafia, 58, Tooba Yahya, 42 (his second wife), and Hamed, 21, their son, were found guilty of conspiring to and of having murdered Mohammed's first wife, Rona Mohammed Amir, 50, and Tooba Yahya's three daughters, Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, and Geeti, 13, because they refused to wear hijab, wore Western, sometimes "sexy" clothing, dared to have boyfriends, and, in their father's words, "dishonored" and "betrayed" both "their family and Islam."

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The Marxist Mission to Destroy Ayaan Hirsi Ali

January 26, 2012  •  PJ Media

The feminism I once championed — and still do — was first taken over by Marxists and subsequently "Stalinized." It was then conquered again by Islamists and "Palestinianized." I and a handful of others maintained honorable minority positions on a host of issues. In time, women no longer mattered as much to many feminists — at least, not as much as Edward Said's Arab men of color did. The Arab men were more fashionable victims who had not only been formerly "colonized" but who, to this day, are still being "occupied" by allegedly "apartheid"–intentioned Jews.

While most of my generation of feminists have long ago retired, died, fallen ill, or have continued to rest visibly on their own earliest laurels, I continue to champion universalist values and to resist the death-grip of multicultural relativism.

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Is The NYT's Agenda to Normalize Islam in the West?

January 25, 2012  •  Israel National News

On a single day, the New York Times has been known to publish anywhere from two to six anti-Israel articles, editorials, op-ed pieces, and letters. Today, I see a new danger arising in their pages.

After spending a year proclaiming the triumph of democracy and the miracle of the Arab Spring and, as PM Netanyahu has just noted, refusing to document the existential danger in which Israel finds herself, the Newspaper of Record has now begun the process of normalizing Islam in North America and Europe. Its pro-Muslim "multicultural" agenda is, paradoxically, another form of racism, but I quibble.

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Tale of 2 Women: Pakistani Terrorist & Somali-Dutch MP

January 24, 2012  •  Israel National News

No matter who finally wins the next American election, one of the most pressing issues will be America's relationship to central Asia. This includes a potentially nuclear Iran, an already nuclear Pakistan, and Afghanistan.

Yesterday, the Taliban video-ed their close-range execution of 15 blind-folded Pakistani soldiers. The executioners shouted out "G-d is the greatest" and "This will be the fate of all infidel armies." The Taliban had abducted these Muslim Pakistani soldiers a month ago in retaliation for the death of twelve of their comrades.

Yes, this is the same Taliban with which America is now willing to negotiate. They are, if possible, even more primitive than the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, or the Iranian mullahs.

An Afghan friend of mine predicts that the Taliban will take the entire southern part of the country which "they already occupy." Further, he said, "They have no history of culture, they are rural and still live in the 8^th century and probably always will. The Afghan north has a rich cultural history which includes Persian, Buddhist, Zoroastrian cultures. Maybe the division of my country into two is inevitable."

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Why Feminists Don't Rob Banks

January 18, 2012  •  PJ Media

I join Ron Radosh and Tom Robbins and favor granting leniency to Judith Clark. She has paid for her crime long enough; others whose crimes were far more serious have already been freed — some have never served time at all; and Clark seems to be as "rehabilitated" as a human being can be.

Continuing to imprison her will not bring back the dead. I believe that our civilization must embrace compassion as well as justice, mercy as well as vengeance.

However, neither Ron nor David (Horowitz) nor Tom noted that, had Judith Clark opted to become a feminist, by definition, she would have turned her back on the violence-driven concepts of "Afrikan," anti-American revolution that drove what became the Weather Underground.

Whether PJM readers are for or against feminism is not the point. Second wave feminists — my cohort — did not espouse the violent overthrow of governments. Contrary to myth, no one espoused the murder of men. Even the anti-pornography and anti-prostitution activists did not kidnap or murder johns, pimps, or traffickers; nor did they blow up the offices of pornography magazines.

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Jews and Hindus: Building A Passage to India

January 11, 2012  •  Israel National News

On January 8, 2012, I delivered a rather passionate speech in Pune, India via skype. I was invited to do so by "Youth 4 Panun Kashmir." The organizers were especially interested in my drawing parallels between Israel and India, Jews and Hindus both of whom have, historically, been genocidally exterminated and driven out of their holy places.

I was approached to speak partly because I have written about Islamic terrorism in India before and partly because I recently took up the case of Dr. Subramanian Swamy, an Indian political leader and economist, who was wrongfully dismissed by Harvard after twenty years for daring to take a "controversial" stand against Islamic terrorism in India.

Here is part of what I said. I think it will be of interest to the readers of Israel National News and perhaps to Israeli diplomats who are in touch with their counterparts in India, because Dr. Swamy was the highest ranking Indian leader to first visit Israel in the early 1980s. His visits led to the establishment of an Indian Embassy and an Israeli Embassy in Israel and India.

My speech:

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Tariq Ramadan-Supporter Diana Eck Leads the Charge Against Fired 'Islamophobic' Professor

January 5, 2012  •  PJ Media

The evil of small minds has triumphed over all that is good intellectually and morally at Harvard.

Professor Diana L. Eck is a supporter of smooth-talking radical Islamist Tariq Ramadan, whom she describes as "one of Europe's deepest and most articulate Muslim thinkers… one of the most powerful exponents of a reformist, self-critical, spiritual and dialogical Islam." She is also a defender of Boston's notorious Roxbury Mosque (whose former and current trustees, mullahs, and congregants have known ties to terrorism and to preaching violence). Now she has successfully led the pack against Professor Subramanian Swamy. Last year, in December, he was dismissed after twenty years at the summer school on the basis of an op-ed piece he wrote in an Indian newspaper about the obvious and growing danger of Islamic terrorism in India, including the 2008 and 2011 jihadic massacres in Mumbai.

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An Open Letter to Gil Ronen

January 3, 2012  •  Israel National News

Dear Gil:

Shalom. I read your piece. While I agree with the "commonsense" aspect of what you are saying, I must respectfully and expertly disagree with your conclusions.

First, we no longer live in the stone age and today, with one click, or with only minimum strength and maximum brain power, either a man or a woman can set off a bomb or prevent a bomb from going off.

Second, armies today, including the IDF, run on intelligence and computer savvy as much as on brawn and sheer brute force. Women and men both excel in technology, intelligence and counterintelligence.

Third, women are not necessarily more compassionate or more tender than men are. Like men, women are capable of cowardice and courage, of aggressively defending the status quo or of challenging it with great risk to themselves.

Women can be competitive, cruel, and very aggressive towards other women and towards other women's children if not towards their own children.

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Naked Breasts vs. Islam?

December 23, 2011  •  PJ Media

What's a poor girl to do?

Should she wear a burqa — or should she wear very short skirts and a low-cut blouse?

Should she wear a headscarf and a shapeless, floor-length garment — or should she pose naked for Playboy magazine?

Do either of these extremes exemplify free as opposed to forced choices? Is either clothing extreme an expression of independence, resistance, or individuality?

In the last year, three Muslim women have posed nude or nearly nude in the media.

Sila Sahin

In April, Sila Sahin, a Muslim Turkish-German actress living in Berlin, posed nude on the cover of Playboy magazine. She claimed, "I did it because (I) wanted to be free at last. These photographs are a liberation from the restrictions of my childhood." As a result, her family has cut all ties with her. Sahin further intended her photos to draw attention to the normalized gender inequality in immigrant Turkish communities. One might ask whether she hoped to achieve this by objectifying herself in a Western media outlet that is inherently sexist?

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The Burqa Arrest in France

December 16, 2011  •  Sun News Network (Canada)

Shame on You, Harvard University!

December 16, 2011  •  Israel National News

First they came for the pagans and the Jews. Then they came for the Christians. And then they came for the Hindus, Buddhists, Zoroastrians, and Ba'hai.

What am I talking about? I am talking about the Islamic persecution of infidels on every continent—a persecution which is still ongoing; about forced conversions to Islam; and about the genocidal extermination of 80 million Hindus over a period of six centuries (1000-1500 CE).

What I've just written is historically true as is Islam's history of anti-Black racism, slavery, and gender and religious apartheid. Ibn Warraq has a new and very important book just coming out on this very subject. It is titled: Why the West is Best. A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy.

But, it is a crime to say any of this. And, it is a crime to suggest that a liberal or constitutional democracy must defend itself against jihadic terrorism.

This is not true only in the Middle East or in Islamic central Asia. It is true in the major and most prestigious universities in the United States.

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Why the West Is Best
A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy

December 15, 2011  •  PJ Media

The legendary Ibn Warraq is my dear friend. I decided to review his new and very excellent book Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy and to interview him here as well.

But let's be clear from the outset. I am reviewing his book not because he is my friend. Rather, he is my friend because he writes great and important books. He is someone with whom I can share serious and witty conversations; he may very well be the best-read man I know. His familiarity with a vast array of fields is truly astounding and a great consolation (at least to me) in our world of apps and pads and short attention spans. He is supremely knowledgeable about philosophy, Islamic and Western art, music, theater, architecture, and literature, both sacred and secular.

I view Ibn Warraq as the intellectual leader of the global anti-Islamist/anti-jihadic dissident movement. He knows and supports everyone doing anti-jihad work.

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Gingrich Just Revealed that the Emperor has no Clothes

December 12, 2011  •  Israel National News

For years, I have risked scorn, defamation, and even physical menace for telling the truth about the "Palestinian" Lie.

Although the "Palestinians" claim a sacred national identity with roots in the Holy Land, the truth is that no such people or group ever existed historically. (Yes, I know that now, given the enormous propaganda and funding for terrorism that there is, indeed, a group of people who call themselves "Palestinians" and who are viewed as such by the immediate world.)

My point is that this group has no historical roots. That is my only point. And, given the enormous disinformation on this subject, I believe it is an important point.

For many millennia, the entire Middle East was only pagan, Jewish, Roman, Greek, and Christian. Islam itself only arose in the 7^th century CE and Muslims thereafter conquered and colonized the Middle East and central Asia. Islamic genocide, imperialism, colonialism, forced conversions, slavery, anti-black racism, and both gender and religious apartheid characterized the Arab Muslim "takeover" of the region.

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The End of Religious Freedom

December 6, 2011  •  PJ Media

Time has run out for the cause of worldwide religious freedom. On November 18, 2011, America chose not to extend any further lifeline to persecuted religious minorities around the planet. On that day, the U.S. government shut down the work of an important and unique American effort: the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF).

Oddly enough, the mainstream media does not seem to have covered this story. I certainly did not know about it. Did you? The only article about this appeared at CNS News.

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My Week With Marilyn: When Innocence Was Sexy

December 4, 2011  •  PJ Media

The movie My Week With Marilyn both saddened and charmed me. It brought me back to 1956, to an era in which a kittenish, impish, slightly naughty, only slightly undressed, whispery-voice child-woman was considered the world's biggest sex symbol.

I am talking about the incomparable Marilyn Monroe and the very good actress Michelle Williams who now plays her. She does not "impersonate" Marilyn. Williams really acts the part, carefully re-creating Marilyn's childish, playful, giggle-of-a-wriggle, her incandescent screen presence, her calculated but spontaneous sauciness, her little-girl-lost real persona.

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