I say, at the very least such people hate America. “Okay,” you might say, “that looks pretty bad, but there’s no reason to think Pipes is the origin of all or even many pathological slanders of Arabs and Muslims.” Au contraire. Remember that insane Edward Luttwak op-ed in the Times a month or two ago — the one that alleged that Muslims worldwide will regard Barack Obama as an apostate Muslim and target him for death, and will be correct, according to the tenets of Islam, in doing so? The op-ed

- middle name is "Hussein". - first name was changed from "Barry" to "Barack", not because he decided he wanted to change to reflect his pride in his ancestry, but to hide something nefarious. Is a Muslim. Is a Muslim Apostate. Is a terrorist. Is a "Manchurian Candidate". Is Jimmy Carter. (Proposal and in Practice.) Is "naive". Is "corrupt". Was "too girl crazy" as a youth.

President Apostate? by Edward N. Luttwak (May 12, 2008) inspired flak from readers throughout the world as well as my blog entry entitled Executing Apostates: Christianity, Islam, Judaism. The NY

Reverend Jeremiah Wright, walked onto the stage. But even as Obama defended his Christian faith, and his choice of churches, speculation about his connection to Islam continues on-line as well as within the mainstream press, including an Op-Ed entitled “President Apostate” in The New York Times (May 12, 2008) by the military strategist and historian Edward Luttwak (and, exactly a week later, in a May 19 Christian Science Monitor Op-Ed entitled “Barack Obama–Muslim Apostate?“

Let's just say that New York Times Public Editor Clark Hoyt wasn't charitable on dealing with Edward Luttwak's op-ed on Barack Obama and apostasy. He writes that everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts. That's a curious statement in and of itself given that the editorial page is absolutely rife with New York Times editorial stances that are unsupported by facts,

Thank you, Clark Hoyt. The public editor (ombudsman) of the New York Times has torn apart Edward Luttwak's op-ed piece on Barack Obama supposedly being a Muslim apostate, right in the Grey Lady's pages. In his Public Editor column on Sunday, Hoyt called it "a single, extreme point of view" and said the NYT should not simply publish opinion pieces based on patently

An opinion piece by Edward N. Luttwak in the May 12 Sunday New York Times declares that Obama is an apostate under Islamic law (Sharia), and thus that an Obama Presidency would compromise US relations with the Middle East. This Sunday, Clark Hoyt, the NYT ombudsman, was sorry

by Paul Watson (March 16, 2007), FrontPageMagazine.Com: Was Barack Obama a Muslim? by Daniel Pipes (December 24, 2007), FrontPageMagazine.Com: Confirmed: Barack Obama Practiced Islam by Daniel Pipes (January 7, 2008), NY Times: President Apostate? by Edward N. Luttwak (May 12, 2008), and HuffingtonPost.com: Obama Islam Smear Changes Stripes by Ali Eteraz (Mon May 12, 5:25 PM ET).

one suggested, because Muslim law considers apostasy a crime worthy of the death sentence and bars punishment for any Muslim who kills an apostate. There were many generalisations about Islam in these two articles, one by Edward Luttwak in the New York Times and the other by Shireen K. Burki in the Christian Science Monitor.

Each time somebody writes “AND ONE MORE THING” about why Obama will ruin the entire world as we know it, I get a tingle in the base of my spine. Each one is less tenuous, more wild and flailing, and I know in the most primordial part of my being that