I wrote “ISIS” for reasons of search-engine optimization (SEO). The terrorist organization actually calls itself the Islamic State. Regardless of the name, most people don’t oppose this group. Today some Twitter users explained to me why: If they condemn ISIS, that will make it impossible for them to continue hating Christianity, the United States, and…
An Interview with Kola Boof, one of my favorite writers
March 29, 2015
An interview with Kola Boof, a writer who dedicated her autobiography to the Atlantic Ocean. Tell me about Undefeated: A North African Writer’s Support for Israel. You said it’s very personal. What do you mean by that? This book is personal because of my lifelong desire to see the Arab Muslim empire lose control of…
My calculated risk
February 27, 2015
Every now and then I’m reminded that what I do is dangerous. However, for me it’s a calculated risk, as I’ll explain in a moment. Today the American writer and blogger Avijit Roy was murdered in Bangladesh. He was killed by Islamists with machetes as he left a book fair. His wife Rafida Ahmed Bonya…