9/11: The Wake-Up Call That Put Us to Sleep, Part 2 of 2- The Hijacking of the American Mind
In Part I, I described how Islamic jihadists hijacked four jetliners by means of violent jihad, and how stealth jihadists later managed to hijack American universities. But the really big hijack operation has been the hijacking of 9/11 itself. More precisely, in the...
9/11: The Wake-up Call That Put Us to Sleep, Part I, Stealth Jihad
If you were young at the time of the 9/11 attack, you might not remember the sense of panic that swept the country immediately afterward. If terrorists could simultaneously hijack four airliners, reduce two of the largest buildings in the world to rubble, and inflict...
How the Catholic Church Became a Defender of Islam
In the late 1930s Catholic historian Hillaire Belloc wrote: " It [Islam] is, as a fact, the most formidable and persistent enemy which our civilization has had and may at any moment become as large a menace in the future as it has been in the past…" It seemed an...
Losing Their Religion
From time to time, readers of my articles will ask: “What do you want to do—go to war with 1.7 billion Muslims?” The question implies that any criticism of Islam will force the members of this “peaceful religion” to respond with massive violence. More or less the same...
The West’s Last Chance?
Has it already passed? Those who make a business of projecting trends often neglect the acceleration factor. The march of history may be usefully described as “slowly” followed by “suddenly.” Yet we are rarely prepared for those times when history seems to...
Is Francis the Pope? Who am I to Judge?
In a recent Crisis piece, Dom Pius Mary Noonan, O.S. B. takes issue with Catholics who say that Francis is not truly the pope. It’s a critical issue because Francis doesn’t seem to have much longer to live. If there is doubt about his own validity, it may cast doubt...
The Media’s Islam Protection Program
I see that Ousseynou Sy’s sentence for attempted murder has just been reduced to 19 years on appeal. Ousseynou Sy? Perhaps the name doesn’t ring a bell. He’s the bus driver who set his bus full of children on fire two years ago. It happened on a highway near Milan,...
The Church’s Islam Problem
After a series of terror attacks in France, including one that left three people dead at a Catholic Church in Nice, Vatican Cardinal Robert Sarah said that the West must wake up to the threat of Islamism. “Islamism,” His Eminence said, “is a monstrous fanaticism which...
Covering-up for Islam
Everyone knows about the cover-up of the priestly abuse scandal in the Catholic Church, and the great damage it has caused. But did you know that the Church has been engaged in another, even bigger cover-up? This cover-up has received little attention, but in the long...
Common Sense and the Cult of Multiculturalism
Multiculturalism, which started off with the proposition that all differences must be respected, eventually developed into something like a sacrificial religious cult. Over the last two decades, it has claimed many victims. The prime example is the Pakistani rape...
