Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has angrily lashed out against awarding Austrian writer Peter Handke with a Nobel Prize. Handke is accused of denying the 1995 Bosnian genocide and of being a “great admirer of former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic.” In a Jihad Watch article, Hugh Fitzgerald stated this about Handke: Peter Handke, a writer, […]
The Ahmadi Abdus Salam and Muslim Nobel Prizes
In “The Nobel winner who couldn’t call himself Muslim,” by Pooja Singh in LiveMint Thursday, we read about Anand Kamalakar’s “Salam: The First ****** Nobel Laureate,” which “follows the life of a Pakistani physicist who achieved great feats but was ostracized by his own countrymen.” Abdus Salam shared the Physics prize with Stephen Weinberg and […]
State Dept. wonk on Obama’s Nobel: “From our standpoint, you know, we think that this gives us a sense of momentum … when the United States has accolades tossed its way, rather than shoes”
In December 2008 I wrote this in a column about the man who threw his shoes at George W. Bush: “Many in the Islamic world believe or hope that Obama will be the anti-Bush, and will craft a foreign policy more to their liking than Bush’s — that is, one involving concessions and appeasement.” Is […]
Fitzgerald: Just A Stab At Prosopographical Study
Individuals matter. Oriana Fallaci, and latterly Magdi Allam, have had a great and salutary influence on the understanding of Islam in Italy. Geert Wilders is a symbol, and more than a symbol, as Pim Fortuyn was before him, of a stance to be taken against the islamization of Europe. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who along with […]