Tuesday evening Brandeis University President Fred Lawrence rescinded an honorary doctorate that was to be conferred on Somali American women human rights advocate and author, Ayaan Hirsi Ali at the June 2014 Commencement. He succumbed to outcries of Islamophobe and Fatwas from the Waltham, Massachusetts campus Muslim Students Association chapter supported by a letter signed […]
Yesterday, Erick Stakelbeck , host of CBN’s On Terrorism published online an interview with our colleague from the Middle East Roundtable series, Dr. Jonathan Schanzer, Vice President for Research at the Washington, DC-based Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD). Stakelbeck is the author of Muslim Brotherhood: America’s Next Great Enemy; Schanzer, The State of Failure: Yasser Arafat, Mahmoud […]
The Florida version of American Law for American Courts (ALAC) SB 386 passed the second hurdle today, on a partisan vote of 6 Republicans versus 3 Democrats. The Democrat opponents included Sen. Jeremy Ring, the Chairman of the State Senate Governmental Oversight and Accountability (GO&A)Committee. It was left to GO&A Deputy Chairman Sen. Alan Hays to advance the legislation […]
As the Persian New Year Norwuz dawned, the Middle East was upended by developments that have thrown into question international efforts to rein in Iran’s quest for nuclear hegemony and the Obama Administration’s quest for a final status agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA). Overarching these objectives of the P5+1 and US Secretary […]
With the drop in church attendance in Europe amidst mass Muslim immigration we have witnessed conversions of empty churches into Mosques. Historically, we saw the ancient Greek Orthodox patriarchal basilica of Hagia Sophia converted into an imperial Mosque following the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople (Istanbul) in the 15th Century and then into a Museum in the 20th Century. […]
March 19th , the Dutch Labor and conservative liberal parties in the ruling coalition of PM Mark Rutte were crushed in municipal elections in The Netherlands. They were looking for someone to blame for their debacle and seized upon a TV video of Geert Wilders’ election night remarks at a Hague campaign event. He was shown […]
The problematic ABC Family pilot of “Alice in Arabia” that we posted on yesterday has been cancelled by the Disney-owned cable TV channel. CAIR launched a Twitter campaign on Tuesday inundating the ABC Family channel with tweets and a letter to the channel’s President demanding control over the production. According to a report in Variety, the social media campaign worked; the pilot has been […]
On the very day that tax evader and renegade oil speculator Marc Rich died on June 26, 2013 in Lucerne, Switzerland, Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. Rich was pardoned on the very last day of former President Clinton’s second term in January 2001 in a series of pardons shepherded by current US Attorney General […]
The municipal elections in Turkey are less than eight day hence. Premier Erdogan perpetrated a foolhardy and heedless Twitter ban. He is desperate to stave off a possible last minute disclosure about more corruption revelations to possibly be released on Tuesday March 25. With this ban Turkey joins a select group of countries who have […]
Creeping Sharia (CS) has featured our NER articles and Iconoclast posts on kidnapping of American children by Saudi Fathers. See An American Child Kidnapped in Accordance with Sharia and An American’s Rescue from Abduction to Saudi Arabia. Yesterday, CS posted on an InsideTV/ Entertainment Weekly story about CAIR’s demand to control an ABC Family pilot about a fictional abduction by Saudi relatives of an American girl […]
There is a troubling briefing by the UK-based Henry Jackson Society (HJS), co-authored by Dr. Jill Bellamy van Allst, NATO Bio-warfare Expert and Oliver Guitta , Director of Research , reported by Adam Kredo in the Washington Free Beacon , “Al Qaeda-Aligned Groups in Syria May Have Access to Biological Pathogens”. Our New English Review interview with Dr. Bellamy Van Aalst on […]
The Florida version of the American Law for American Courts (ALAC) is up for its fourth try in the 2014 Legislative session in Tallahassee. In contrast to prior years, there is concerted effort by bill sponsors, Sen. Alan Hays (R- Umatilla) and Rep. Neil Combee in the House of Representatives to seek Senate and House […]
We recently interviewed Professor Margaret McClain a retired faculty member of Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, Arkansas. McClain told us her story of the loss of her daughter in an illegal abduction by her Saudi ex-husband in violation of state, federal and international laws against parental abduction. Professor McClain and other American women, a father and some […]
When we posted on the disappearance of Malaysian Flight 370, we speculated that the Boeing 777 -200ER Aircraft with 239 souls on board, including 12 crew, might have been a criminal act perpetrated by a trained terrorist or a suicidal pilot, as was the case with the tragic 1999 Egyptian Air Flight 990. At that time we […]
During the 2013 Florida Legislature session, Jewish Defense group, the Anti-Defamation League, the American Civil Liberties Union declared that Florida version of American Law for American Courts legislature regarding acceptance of foreign law in certain cases did not recognize Israeli divorces granted Florida residents by Jewish Rabbinic Courts. Alone among rabbis who contested these arguments […]