Those – including many progressive Christians & David Cameron and Barack Obama – who insist that jihadis are not ‘real’ Muslims miss the point

Last updated on: November 22, 2015 at 11:09 am By Frank Schaeffer

There appears, to be something especially potent about Islam in fomenting terror and persecution. Contemporary radical Islam is the religious form through which a particular kind of barbarous rage expresses itself. So, to understand why jihadis have been drawn into a moral universe that allows them to celebrate inhuman acts, we have to understand why political rage against the West takes such nihilistic, barbaric forms, and why radical Islam has become the primary vehicle for such rage. So writes Kenan Malik the Indian-born... Read more

ISIS has a mother: Bush’s invasion of Iraq. But it also has a father: Saudi Arabia’s religious-industrial complex

Last updated on: November 20, 2015 at 2:57 pm By Frank Schaeffer

The West’s denial regarding Saudi Arabia is striking: It salutes the theocracy as its ally but pretends not to notice that it is the world’s chief ideological sponsor of Islamist culture. The younger generations of radicals in the so-called Arab world were not born jihadists. They were suckled in the bosom of Fatwa Valley, a kind of Islamist Vatican with a vast industry that produces theologians, religious laws, books, and aggressive editorial policies and media campaigns. … READ THE REST... Read more

After Paris is it Time to re-colonize the Failed States of the Arab Muslim World?

Last updated on: November 14, 2015 at 5:37 am By Frank Schaeffer

In light of the latest massacre in France the day is fast approaching when the rest of the world — Europe, the United States, Russia and China may be forced to re-colonize the failed Arab/Muslim world. George W Bush with his criminal and ill-conceived wars further destabilized an already failed Arab/Muslim civilization. But noting that it’s “our fault” as liberals (like me) are want to do, isn’t the point now. Yes, the neoconservatives made ISIS. Knowing this accomplishes nothing. Sure we’re guilty... Read more

VIVE LA FRANCE!

Last updated on: November 13, 2015 at 4:00 pm By Frank Schaeffer

France is under attack. Let’s face it we are at war. The West is under attack. Stand with France against terror. Read more

Are you (like me with my grandchildren) trying to get the good stuff into their heads first ahead of the marketing crap?

Last updated on: November 11, 2015 at 12:34 pm By Frank Schaeffer

I need something from you… please I want your voice in my new book. Please write me an email/letter to [email protected] about what you are doing for your children and/or students to open doors to creativity for them. Also… who opened those doors for you? 10 words to 500… and this is a letter and doesn’t have to be perfect, just true and heartfelt. What are you passing on to those you love most? How are you doing it? What... Read more

Watch (20 min) political commentator Noam Chomsky discusses everything you will never hear on the media

Last updated on: November 11, 2015 at 12:13 pm By Frank Schaeffer

Here’s an interview on Latin American media outlet teleSUR, where linguist and political commentator Noam Chomsky explains that both American political parties have become more right-wing, with the GOP embracing radical extremism and mainstream Democrats occupying territory once held by moderate Republicans. “The Republican party, about twenty years ago, basically abandoned any pretense of being a normal political party,” Chomsky noted. “Their only policies are don’t do anything or bomb. That’s not a political party.” WATCH please. Frank Schaeffer is a writer. His latest... Read more

Just How Sick is American Law Enforcement? AP Study Proves Cops Do Huge Number of Violent Sex Crimes

Last updated on: November 6, 2015 at 9:44 am By Frank Schaeffer

In a yearlong investigation of sexual misconduct by U.S. law enforcement, The Associated Press uncovered about 1,000 officers who lost their badges in a six-year period for rape, sodomy and other sexual assault; sex crimes that included possession of child pornography– The number is unquestionably an under-count because it represents only those officers whose licenses to work in law enforcement were revoked, and not all states take such action. Here is an excerpt from this report. AP: Hundreds of officers lose licenses over... Read more

Please Watch My 2 Min Vid Asking For You to Write me a Letter For My New Book For me to Publish

Last updated on: November 4, 2015 at 11:00 am By Frank Schaeffer

Will you watch this then help? I would love to hear from you at [email protected] Dear Family, Will you help me by writing something for me to include in my new book? I’m writing a new book on children, art, and family and what to pass on to those we love most. Will you write me an email today about who and what most inspired you as a child to love art, music, dance, poetry, reading, nature and learning? Will... Read more

Will you help me by writing something for me to include in my new book?

Last updated on: November 4, 2015 at 7:45 am By Frank Schaeffer

Dear Family, Will you help me by writing something for me to include in my new book? I’m writing a new book on children, art, and family and what to pass on to those we love most. Will you write me an email today about who and what most inspired you as a child to love art, music, dance, poetry, reading, nature and learning? Will you share what you are doing for and with your children, grandchildren, pupils, or other... Read more

Our Grandfather/Granddaughter Lucy & “Ba” Art/Icon Art Project

Last updated on: November 2, 2015 at 3:39 pm By Frank Schaeffer

I’ve just launched a new show of icon art I collaborated with my 7 year old granddaughter Lucy on. She draws the pictures and I paint them in. A motif in modern art has been to capture the primitive forms and childlike wonder present in children’s art. I’ve gone one better and actually am working with a child in an equal partnership. And this isn’t just any child, this is the little girl for whom Genie and I provide daily... Read more