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Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren Shouted Down at UC Irvine

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Last week at UC Irvine, a large group of extremist students repeatedly shouted down Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren. You can watch a video of this debacle here.

When appeals to the values of liberal education, free speech, and even threats of expulsion failed to quiet the disruption, Ambassador Oren appealed …

Independent Bangladeshi Journalist’s House Broken Into, Police Do Nothing

choudhury-before-after.jpgLate last month, the Dhaka home of Bangladeshi journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, publisher and editor of that country’s largest weekly newspaper, The Weekly Blitz, was broken into. Police in Dhaka have done nothing to investigate the incident.

Choudhury, who faces prosecution by his government on charges of “blasphemy, treason, …

Anti-Jihadist Muslim Featured in Today’s American Spectator

Today The American Spectator features on its front page my piece on anti-jihadist Muslim Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury.

Choudhury will appear before a Bangladeshi court tomorrow to defend himself against charges of blasphemy, sedition and treason for holding the line against radical Islamists in his county and …

U.S. Attorneys, Activists, and Journalists Convene to Defend Free Speech in Washington D.C. Today

United in their commitment to defense of free speech against the threat of harassment by radical Islamists, speakers at today’s “Islamist Lawfare” conference, hosted in Washington D.C. by Daniel Pipes’ Middle East Forum, debated what precisely constitutes the radical Islamist threat in the U.S. and how best to combat it.

In Europe and now in the …