Welcome! This is an unapologetic, agenda-free zone. Just commentaries on current events that’ll move you to think, laugh, rage, and even cry.
I planned to eschew publishing any more commentaries until after Election Day on Tuesday, November 3. But, given these latest terrorist attacks, I feel obliged to share this update to “In Republishing Images of the Prophet Muhammad, ‘Charlie Hebdo’ Shows Islamophobic Arrogance, Not Democratic Defiance,” September 2, 2020: A knife-wielding attacker shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ beheaded… Read more.
Five years ago, Islamists attacked the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical French magazine. They did so to avenge its publication of plainly offensive cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. They not only killed 12 people in that attack, including five famous cartoonists, but executed “a wave of jihadist strikes across France.” I duly commented in… Read more.
From day one, I was among far too few non-Muslims condemning Charlie Hebdo for publishing anti-Muslim cartoons. It’s one thing to defy Islamic jihadists to expose human rights and other abuses Muslims perpetrate in the name of Islam — as Hirsi Ali and van Gogh did with their film. It’s quite another to do so merely to propagate… Read more.
I am proud to be among the few still small voices condemning instead of praising Charlie Hebdo. But nobody in his right mind could possibly think that committing mass murder against its staff was the right way to express this condemnation: It’s one thing to defy Islamic jihadists to expose human rights and other abuses… Read more.
A shooting at the offices of a satirical magazine in Paris has left at least 12 people dead [10 journalists and two policemen]… Witnesses report that two masked men entered the building with guns and open fired on staff of Charlie Hebdo, a weekly newspaper that had [drawn repeated threats for its caricatures of the… Read more.
