Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the author of Infidel, was forced into hiding in Holland after making a film on Islam and women called Submission with Theo van Gogh. Hirsi Ali now lives in the U.S. I interviewed her for my last Global Viewpoint Network column.
UPDATE: New information has come to light regarding "Innocence of Muslims" and its creators. "Sam Bacile" is a pseudonym used by Nakoula Basseley Nako...
AMSTERDAM -- The Van Gogh Museum said Tuesday its experts now believe one of Vincent van Gogh's paintings previously thought to be a self-portrait act...
The film Des Hommes et des dieux portrays the final days of the French monks of Tibehirine, Algeria, before their assassination by Islamists in 1996. Rarely has a film been so passionately slow, and yet, made the heart beat so very fast.
About a month ago, before there was any conversation in the American news media about the insignificant Florida pastor, Terry Jones, and his plan to b...
Actor Steve Buscemi believes in luck, up to a point. As he notes, it usually has nothing to do with what you do to get it but what you do with it.
"I...
Blind Date is strong stuff indeed -- a well-written and insightful drama built around two beautifully modulated performances by Stanley Tucci and the always-marvelous Patricia Clarkson.
A book entitled The Cartoons That Shook The World is being published without any of the cartoons in the book. It's the latest in a long series of Western reactions to violent threats to freedom of expression.
Here she is, with the last sliver of protection she can afford standing between her and the people determined to murder her, still speaking, still fighting.
(Written 11/3/2004 in Amsterdam)
Yesterday afternoon in Amsterdam, a few hours before I arrived by bus, a controversial journalist/filmmaker Theo Van...
Ask enough tough questions, and faith is less likely to inspire people to kill and die for it. But doubtful Muslims, and the atheists who support them, are being prevented from following this path.