Yellow, Blue and Green

By Jan McDaniel | 06/06/09

President Obama said in Cairo that the 9/11 attacks caused some Americans to view Islam as hostile.  That’s not true of me or anyone I know.  The attacks caused me to lift my head up from my everyday life and sniff the wind.  Something was going on, and I needed to know more about it.  Finding that Islam and America were destined to compete took some time.    I doubt that President Obama had thought much... read more »

Islamophobia According to Stephen Schwartz

By Jan McDaniel | 06/05/09

Stephen Schwartz is very specific in his definition of unacceptable behavior that makes a critic of Islam into an Islamophobe:       Notwithstanding the arguments of some Westerners, Islamophobia exists; it is not a myth. Islamophobia consists of: ·         attacking the entire religion of Islam as a problem for the world;... read more »

Obama in Cairo

By Jan McDaniel | 06/04/09

I wonder how the family of William Long felt about the President’s portrayal of the Religion of Peace?  I am familiar with the Religion of Jihad that the shooter claimed as justification.  The Religion of Peace described by our President is nowhere in sight.    Overall, the speech asked one thing of Muslims:  That they should like us.  One paragraph, in the most general terms.  On the other hand, we... read more »

Lone Wolves

By Jan McDaniel | 06/03/09

The security analysts Scott Stewart and Fred Barton, writing for STRATFOR.com, today made an effort to contextualize the recent alleged murder of an American soldier in Little Rock.  First, they note that the accused, Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, has a middle name, chosen as an adult convert to Islam, which means “one who engages in jihad.”  Then they place him in the context of other lone wolf terrorists:   Lone... read more »

Common Sense

By Jan McDaniel | 06/02/09

Common sense has been derided as ignorant judgment of complicated matters that require expertise to understand properly.  That does happen.  Common sense is also the ability to form a reasonable opinion when given a fair accounting of the basic facts.    This story has the elements of the present world conflict in miniature.  It also places in opposing positions common sense and ideology.  It has attracted... read more »

Pros and Cons

By Jan McDaniel | 06/01/09

If the drive for Islamic supremacy is the mainspring of the present war and if the justification for supremacy is entirely within Islamic law, then do we want to consider legal action as one tool in winning the war?   Why we should declare the propagation of Islamic law (Sharia) in America to be sedition: To stop the spread of Islamic law inside America.  Our foreign policy would be realigned to be against... read more »

I am critical of Islam

By Jan McDaniel | 05/30/09

I am critical of a faith that:   Describes me, an unbeliever, as the worst of God’s creatures. Prescribes second class citizenship, at best, for me in any nation it rules. Says that I deserve eternal punishment. Politically privileges its members over non-members like me. Violates my view of the minimum allowable position on human rights regarding women, homosexuals and non-believers. Continues its... read more »

Murray v. Geithner

By Jan McDaniel | 05/29/09

Kevin Murray is suing our Treasury Secretary and the Federal Reserve Board.  Mr. Murray, represented by David Yerushalmi and the Thomas More Law Center, claims that the government is violating the Establishment Clause of the Constitution by allowing AIG to sell sharia compliant insurance products.    AIG is 80% government owned now, so AIG actions are government actions.  The suit claims that in offering sharia compliant... read more »

An Absurd Argument

By Jan McDaniel | 05/28/09

Over and over, I see and hear the statement that America cannot do something or other because that will make us no different from our enemy.  Absurd.   We will always be different from our enemy, even if we betray our best standards, even if we stoop to conduct the enemy uses routinely.  Our history is full of examples—detention of Japanese-American citizens springs to mind.    We will always be different from... read more »

An Invitation to Muslims

By Jan McDaniel | 05/26/09

If Muslims and non-Muslims ever accept the fact that there is a state of war existing between them, a promising option opens up.    Sunni-Shia fighting is continuous in the Islamic world. The conflict between Muslims in Afghanistan and Pakistan is about the supremacy of Islamic law. The Persian-Arab divide is explosive.  The Syrian Alawites are occasionally attacked as heretics because of their worship of Mary, Sufis and... read more »