Three weeks since it hit the headlines, Google is finally uncensoring the search for suggestions to complete the phrase “Islam is” – a fact that launched a thousand screenshots and irate blogposts (including on here) around the world. According to Google “the bug fix is in the process of rolling out, and suggestions will […]

TheEye tends not to comment on high-profile news stories as they are usually done splendidly elsewhere. David Vance offers this, for example, about whether waterboarding and other methods of interrogation are acceptable in the War On Terror. It’s the ticking bomb scenario – only it is real and the bombs […]

Apologies for the awful headline but couldn’t resist. Anyway, nearly three quarters of Germans fear the spread of Islam, according to a survey released on Friday. ADVERTISING A poll by Infratest dimap for public broadcaster ARD showed a third of those asked expressed great concern that Islam was growing too […]

From todays’ Sun: “Ministers have been BANNED from using words like Islamist and fundamentalist – in case they offend Muslims. An eight-page Whitehall guide lists words they should not use when talking about terrorism in public and gives politically correct alternatives. They are told not to refer to Muslim extremism […]

Roland Emmerich’s new end-of-the-world disaster film 2012 has a rollicking good time destroying every monument to man’s architectural genius in the world. The Sistine Chapel is destroyed, as is the Vatican and the giant Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro. The White House gets flattened, too. All man’s […]

Two stories about the religion of peace to come out of Germany this week. First up we learn that a new programme is helping 17 Turkish imams learn German in a bid for integration in North Rhine-Westphalia. The imams from mosques across Germany travelled Dortmund for the course, which has […]

A once moderate Muslim who last year came out as an Islamist radical has announced plans to start a political party uniting all of Sweden’s anti-Zionists. According to Mohamed Omar, a 34-year-old author and commentator born in Uppsala in eastern Sweden, he is prepared to welcome all political stripes into […]

Found on Sean Linnane’s blog via LSP. A tale of our age: Overheard while waiting in line at the US Post Office, Podunkville . . . deep in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey: Sweet Little Old Lady: “I’d like to buy some stamps, and I don’t want those ones […]

….the D.C. Sniper? Another in an occasional Where Are They Now series. Last featuring the shoe-thrower, this time we find out that the D.C. (or Beltway) Sniper is imminently due to head downstairs for an eternity of heat and pitchforks. A judge in Richmond, Virginia, has set a Nov. 10 […]

From the Daily Mail: Judge Anthony Goldstaub QC sentenced Stuart Wood for seven years for the attack, then told him: ‘You have turned to Islam and this promises well for your future, particularly as you are now an adherent of a religion which respects women and self-discipline.’ Obviously the religion […]