When parents can abort a baby because it’s a girl, they are guilty of the worst kind of sexism. Rape, porn, the tyranny of beauty that compels little girls to perform plastic surgery to attain perfection: these are nothing in comparison to the mindset that will not allow for girls to be conceived in the... Continue Reading

…are the middle and upper-middle income American children with college degrees who refuse to work because they think they are entitled to high-paying jobs with prestigious assignments that allow them to seek employment only when they feel like it. They expect first-rate material items – cars, clothing, the latest technology. They are, after all, entitled….... Continue Reading

“We must ensure that Tunisia is a success story because if it doesn’t then no other Arab country will succeed,” Hamdi told Reuters last month while in Paris….“At the end of the day, democracy thrives in a stable, economically vibrant society and region as well,” Ben Achour said. “What happens in Algeria will affect Tunisia.... Continue Reading

“In today’s arguments, the justices were divided along gender lines. If that holds, the businesses would win at some level with a 6-3 vote. Predicting the outcome of a Supreme Court case is folly, as the healthcare decision proved. But in the arguments, the male justices seemed on the side of the businesses’ right to... Continue Reading

“While legal in Texas for more than two decades, Associate Judge Graciela Olvera of Dallas County’s 256th Family District Court removed the children in part because they were not using a state-approved home schooling curriculum, according to court records.”   For five months a family has been separated by a Dallas judge–not for abuse or... Continue Reading

It is no coincidence the increase in attacks on Christians began right after the fall President Mubarak in February 2011 and sharply increased after the Muslim Brotherhood won the Egyptian presidency in June 2012. “I accuse the Muslim Brotherhood and their Islamic groups of abducting the Christian girls in Egypt and forcing them to convert... Continue Reading

“Named after the second caliph, Omar bin al-Khattab (r. 634 to 644), the Conditions was purportedly agreed upon between the caliph and a community of Christians conquered by invading Muslims, ironically in the region of Syria.  It has since been referenced in most major works on the treatment of dhimmis—non-Muslims living under Islamic authority.”   A jihadi... Continue Reading

The Islamists (Muslims who believe in Sharia governance), argue that the system is tolerant because it gives Christians and Jews some rights and technically permits them to practice their faith and have houses of worship. However, the restrictions on them are designed to make their faiths unsustainable so they are ultimately a thing of the... Continue Reading

In one of the most recent attacks, that took place on Friday night, March 14, into the morning hours of Saturday, March 15, the “herdsmen’s” attack was described to the Nigerian newspaper Sunday Vanguard by a survivor from Ugwar Sankwai village, and related by the Barnabas Fund: “They fired into homes. As women and children scampered to escape, they were... Continue Reading

Formerly, pottery dated roughly to the time of Joshua served as the only evidence that Khirbet el-Maqatir was inhabited during that time period. Discovery of the scarab gives irrefutable evidence of the city’s existence at the time of Joshua. The scarab is a rare type that was made only between the years of 1485 and... Continue Reading