Facts. They’re important. Sometimes they’re inconvenient (*paging Rep. Weiner*) but a refusal to face them rarely – probably never – leads to a good place. So, here’s a fact. Jews have faced persecution at virtually every historical turn. Here’s another one. Before the horror of the Holocaust, a lot of people who would become enthusiastic members of the National Socialist Party, the Nazis, were saying a lot of bad things about Jews. And here’s a sad fact: A lot of Christians, as well as a lot of other people, simply looked the other way as an inferno of hatred otherwise known as Hitler’s murderous regime began to ignite.

Never again.

That Islam played a role at the highest levels of the Nazi party is also an indisputable fact. Amin Al Husseini, founder of the World Islamic Congress, was BFF with Hitler, as abundant photographic and documentary evidence attests. So it is not particularly shocking that the same Jew-hating rhetoric that poisoned Europe in the 1930s is flourishing in Islamic countries today.| MORE ›

Via Hot Air, the sorta-crazy Florida pastor Terry Jones, who is best known for his burning of a Koran just weeks ago, was convicted of breach of peace by a Detroit court earlier this week. The jury found that Jones was likely to incite violence by way of his protesting:

At the start of Friday’s trial, prosecutors presented their arguments before the jury.| MORE ›

There are many reasons to oppose New York Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf’s plans to building a mosque and “cultural learning center” two blocks away from Ground Zero.  The perception that you’re slapping the faces of 9/11 victims’ families is only one of them, and surely Imam Feisal has to know this when he began the project.  It’s poor judgment at best.| MORE ›

Often times when presidents surround themselves with highly intelligent people, they end up with brilliant rationalizations for failure. – Dr. Thomas Sowell

Earlier today, Poligazette Editor in Chief Michael van der Galien had a terrific post where he commented on Dr. Thomas Sowell’s column “The Brainy Bunch“.

Galien:| MORE ›

The best part of the crisis in Iran, is that extremists and fundamentalists everywhere are panicking. They thought that the Iranian regime would remain in place for years, perhaps decades to come. Tehran has been supporting them – think of Hizbullah, Hamas but also dozens of other fundamentalist and extremist* organizations, newspapers, groups, etc.| MORE ›

Pope Benedict XVI accomplished the impossible yesterday: his farewell speech pleased both Israelis and Palestinians. 

Pope Benedict XVI ended a politically charged visit to Israel and the West Bank on Friday with new condemnations of anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial and his strongest appeal yet for the creation of a Palestinian state.| MORE ›

Yesterday, former President Bill Clinton defended the late Sen.| MORE ›

In response to an article by David Hart about explaining why the New Atheist movement is doomed to failure, Joe Carter of First Things tackles a section he sees as problematic (emph. mine):

Even as a fervent believer I can acknowledge that skepticism and atheism can be inspired by the reasons Hart lists.| MORE ›

Rioting Muslim workers in Lahore murdered their employer and two others over another alleged Koran-desecration incident.  Once again “alleged” is one important key word since no such act of vandalism has yet been demonstrated, to say nothing of what was known prior to the pogrom.

These are the facts of the case as understood at present:| MORE ›

Caroline Glick:

From an Israeli perspective, Pres. Barack Obama’s speech today in Cairo was deeply disturbing.| MORE ›

Pope Benedict held an open-air mass in the Arab country of Jordan today. A massive crowd listened to him.

Thousands of Jordanians have joined Pope Benedict XVI for an open-air Mass in a football stadium, on the third day of his Middle East tour.

The crowd, in the capital Amman, included hundreds of children waving flags of Jordan and the Vatican.| MORE ›