No thanks to the Old Media who spent as much time ignoring this as possible. Who says blogging amounts to ranting in your pajamas? Oh yeah, Old Media says that. How many lives have they saved this week? (the answer is a negative number). Oh sure now, i…

Via Michelle Malkin’s blog, I found the latest Mark Steyn column in the Orange County Register. I’m accustomed to finding it first in the Chicago Sun-Times. I thought I was the only one to catch this item, but Steyn, in a column mostly about Afghan C…

Under mounting foreign pressure to release Abdul Rahman, several Afghan authorities have suggested the man could be released within 48 hours. Even Pope Benedict XVI has asked the Afghan president to show clemency, although I don’t see his pictu…

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Mark Steyn:
The fragile Afghan state is protected by American, British, Canadian, Australian, Italian and other troops, hundreds of whom have died. You cannot ask Americans or Britons to expend blood and treasure to buil…

Both Mark Steyn (H/T Michelle M) and Nathaniel Blake (H/T feministe) compare the west’s response to the Abdul Rahman story (question will prelates break their silence in the sunday prayers?) to the British Empire’s approach to suttee:

Both Mark Steyn (H/T Michelle M) and Nathaniel Blake (H/T feministe) compare the west’s response to the Abdul Rahman story (question will prelates break their silence in the sunday prayers?) to the British Empire’s approach to suttee:

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Michelle Malkin is covering the story of the Afghani Christian who was born into…

From the BBC:
Mood hardens against Afghan convert
By Sanjoy Majumder BBC News, Kabul
“The Prophet Muhammad has said several times that those who convert from Islam should be killed if they refuse to come back,” says Ansarullah Mawlafizad…

Writing in the Orange County Register, Mary Steyn writes about the Abdul Rahman case and asks whether the West is willing to stand up for its ideals.
Fate conspires to remind us what this war is really about: civilizational confidence. And so his …..

The thing about Islam is that it is set up to only grow. Further than that, it is set up to grow by any means possible. This has less to do with God (as Muslims claim) and more to do with the violent and militaristic nature of its foundational belief…