Taking the Islamic State Threat to the U.S. Seriously, and Reclaiming America’s National Purpose
The president thinks America can live with occasional terrorist attacks. He’s wrong.
November 1, 2016
A Civil-Rights Group That Once Took Klansmen and Neo-Nazis to Court Now Hounds Liberal Muslims for “Blasphemy”
The ignominious decline of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Founded in 1971 to combat white-supremacist groups, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) won a number of important legal battles against the Ku Klux Klan, various neo-Nazi groups, and other opponents of desegregation. Now it generates materials like its “field guide to anti-Muslim extremists”: a list of fifteen individuals that includes the historian Daniel Pipes, the apostate Muslim Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and the British Muslim critic of jihadism Maajid Nawaz. Among Nawaz’s crimes are having tweeted a cartoon portraying Jesus and Muhammad, “despite the fact that many Muslims see [such depictions] as blasphemous.” Nick Cohen comments on what he calls “the white left’s first fatwa”:
November 1, 2016
Fatah’s Attacks on the Balfour Declaration Are Reminder That Palestinian Leaders Don’t Believe in a Two-State Solution
Not much has changed since 1948.
A Civil-Rights Group That Once Took Klansmen and Neo-Nazis to Court Now Hounds Liberal Muslims for “Blasphemy”
The ignominious decline of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
A 19th-Century Jewish Zealot, Mystic, Promoter of Science, and Universalist
Pinḥas Eliyahu Hurwitz’s bestseller remains popular among Ḥaredim today.
Tales of Ten Scrolls
The journeys of historic Torah scrolls.