Tag: Islamic Terrorism

The Catholic Hierarchy and the Mideast Conflict

“The good shepherd lays down his life for his sheep. The hired hand, who is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away–and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. The hired hand runs away...

Facing Reality

Suppose that tomorrow ISIS releases a video to all the major television networks in the United States. In the video we see a man wearing a black balaclava which covers his entire head except for his eyes. Speaking with a slight southern American...

Islam Examined, Part I

If Westerners were to stop looking at Islam through the lens of Political Correctness, they would fear for the future of Western civilization. That is the message of Nonie Darwish’s Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of...

Lest We Forget

Can you identify the source of the following quote? Countering terrorism has become, beyond a doubt, the top national security priority for the United States . . . The catastrophic threat at this moment in history . . . is the threat imposed by...

Our World is Becoming Scary and Unsafe

Unless you have been vacationing on an abandoned island for the past few years, terrorism, violence and crime have increased to the point that there is a serious question of safety in traveling, going shopping, or for that matter, even going to a...

The Marriage of Denial and Groupthink

When psychologists begin to ponder liberals’ refusal to acknowledge Islamic terrorism, they will likely stumble over one another in their rush for research grants to probe the phenomenon. Some brave doctoral student might also wonder what cognitive...