Andrew Bostom

A review-essay on Marked for Death: Islam’s War Against the West and Me, by Geert Wilders,  Regnery Publishing, May1, 2012, 256 pp. As I told the Editor of The American Thinker, Tom Lifson: “Although lengthy, this review-essay will provide readers with a definitive understanding of one of the West’s most important political leaders, whose grasp
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The Center for Security Policy, under security analyst Frank Gaffney’s bold and thoughtful leadership, is launching a 10-part, web-based video course (key findings summarized here), today, April 24, 2012,  entitled, “The Muslim Brotherhood in America: The Enemy Within.” Today , appropriately, also marks the 97th anniversary of the date officially commemorated as the start of
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Ernest Gellner (1925-1995) was a British-Czech philosopher and social anthropologist. His anthropological interests extended to Islamdom, notably the 1981 study Muslim Society. In 1995, an obituarist described Gellner as a “defender of positivism, empiricism and rationalism,” who,   “with cold clarity” and “sternness” critiqued “…religious and leftist seekers after umma…linguistic philosophy, relativism, psychoanalysis, and post-modernism.” Here
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