Religious liberty in the United States used to mean that the government couldn’t interfere in the beliefs or actions of people’s conduct of their own lives, providing that they weren’t violating established laws or the rights of other citizens. There was certainly no thought that the state could compel citizens to activity in violation of…
By Soeren Kern | January 27, 2017 at 5:00 am Soeren Kern is a Senior Fellow at the New York-based Gatestone Institute. He is also Senior Fellow for European Politics at the Madrid-based Grupo de Estudios Estratégicos / Strategic Studies Group. Follow him on Facebook and on Twitter. German political leaders and national security officials knew that…
The Golden State with its beautiful beaches from Malibu to San Diego that gave rise to the surfing culture of “catch a wave” and the body building craze of Venice Beach in Los Angeles. The magnificent mountain ranges of the Sierras beckon people from around the world to first class snow skiing. National parks and…
There is simply no way to mix Democracy with Islam, any more than there is a way to mix the Christian religion with Islam. One need only review the history of the spread of Islam in comparison with the wars fought by the United States over the last 100 years in order to understand the…
How are Christians “saved by grace through faith but not by works”? Does this passage say that works play no part in the life of a Christian? People often think they can “work up” faith through their own emotional effort, but we must ask God for His faith. Faith clearly must first come from God. If people could…
Printed with permission by The Telegraph, Raf Sanchez, Jerusalem | 27 DECEMBER 2016 • 1:30PM Israel’s defence minister has urged Jews to leave France and move to the Jewish state as the Israeli government continued to lash out at the international community in the wake of a UN resolution criticising its settlements in the occupied…
Maybe it would have been more accurate to say the world against America and Israel. It’s never been more the case in the United Nations. Until the recent UN vote condemning Israel for building settlements on the outskirts of Jerusalem, the United States has reliably used its veto power to strike down resolutions targeting Israel….
Permission from Gatestone Institute Everyone now knows––even German Chancellor Angela Merkel––that she committed a political mistake in opening the doors of her country to more than a million migrants from the Middle East, Africa and Asia. It was, politically, a triple mistake: Merkel may have thought that humanitarian motives (the war in Syria and Iraq,…
Permission from Gatestone Institute A German court has ruled that seven Islamists who formed a vigilante patrol to enforce Sharia law on the streets of Wuppertal did not break German law and were simply exercising their right to free speech. The ruling, which effectively legitimizes Sharia law in Germany, is one of a growing number…
Ask that question of 1,000 different Americans and you would probably get 1,000 different answers. Ask many professional sports figures, politicians at the highest level of America’s government, radical thug groups such as Black Lives Matter, illegal aliens who both curse and burn the flag, members of the media, or any of a host of…
