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Tawfik Hamid: Islam Should Prove It’s a Religion of Peace
The film “Fitna” by Dutch parliament member Geert Wilders has created an uproar around the world because it links violence committed by Islamists to Islam. Many commentators and politicians — including the British government, which denied him entry to the country last month — reflexively accused Mr. Wilders of inciting hatred. The question, however, is [...]
Continue reading...Jack Engelhard: Spare the Pieties on Gaza
Published Wednesday, January 21, 2009 at 10:17 am
Israel is a Jewish State. Is that your problem? Frankly, given a choice, I prefer the skinheads and other brutes who express their anti-Semitism openly. In such places, we know the enemy. But please spare me the pieties and the righteous indignation of those “good people” protesting throughout Europe against Israel ’s defensive operation in [...]
Continue reading...Mark Steyn: Jews get killed, but Muslims feel vulnerable
Published Tuesday, December 9, 2008 at 9:29 pm
Shortly after the London Tube bombings in 2005, a reader of Tim Blair, the Sydney Daily Telegraph’s columnar wag, sent him a note-perfect parody of a typical newspaper headline: “British Muslims Fear Repercussions Over Tomorrow’s Train Bombing.” Indeed. And so it goes. This time round — Bombay — it was the Associated Press that filed [...]
Continue reading...Orson Scott Card: What Obama Should Have Said
Published Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 10:35 am
It would have been so simple for Obama to handle this like a statesman instead of a whiner. President Bush went to Israel to affirm America’s ironclad support of Israel’s survival as a nation. While there are Americans who don’t agree with it, this has been the policy of the United States from the foundation [...]
Continue reading...Times Online: Hardline takeover of British mosques
Published Saturday, September 8, 2007 at 9:25 am
Almost half of Britain’s mosques are under the control of a hardline Islamic sect whose leading preacher loathes Western values and has called on Muslims to “shed blood†for Allah, an investigation by The Times has found. Riyadh ul Haq, who supports armed jihad and preaches contempt for Jews, Christians and Hindus, is in line [...]
Continue reading...Mark Steyn: The vanishing jihad exposes
Published Sunday, August 5, 2007 at 10:04 am
How will we lose the war against “radical Islam”? Well, it won’t be in a tank battle. Or in the Sunni Triangle or the caves of Bora Bora. It won’t be because terrorists fly three jets into the Oval Office, Buckingham Palace and the Basilica of St Peter’s on the same Tuesday morning. The war [...]
Continue reading...The Age: At least 30 former Guantanamo Bay detainees have been killed or recaptured after taking up arms against allied forces following their release
Published Sunday, July 29, 2007 at 12:33 pm
They have been discovered mostly in Afghanistan and Pakistan, but not in Iraq, a US Defence Department spokesman told The Age yesterday. Commander Jeffrey Gordon said the detainees had, while in custody, falsely claimed to be farmers, truck drivers, cooks, small-arms merchants, low-level combatants or had offered other false explanations for being in Afghanistan. “We [...]
Continue reading...Mark Steyn: British bomb plot and Michael Moore-style health care
Published Sunday, July 8, 2007 at 2:08 pm
There are many things wrong with U.S. health care, as there inevitably are with any health care system. The question is whether America wants to go down the British-Canadian-Cuban route, to name three government medical systems that Michael Moore admires in his new film “Sicko.” Cuba, of course, is a totalitarian state, and even Hollywood [...]
Continue reading...Melanie Phillips: “To deny that it is a war which draws its authority from Islamic precepts is to deny the truth.”
Published Thursday, July 5, 2007 at 11:37 pm
People in Britain are shocked — shocked! — that medical doctors are suspected of involvement in the al Qaeda terrorist attacks on Britain over the past few days. The shock reflects the deep unreality of public discourse up till now. People have persisted in believing that Islamic terrorism could be explained by poverty, deprivation, alienation [...]
Continue reading...Brown, thy name is cowardice
Published Thursday, July 5, 2007 at 9:21 pm
With Tony Blair – our generation’s closest thing to a Churchill – barely out of office, his successor has begun the process of surrender: Gordon Brown has banned ministers from using the word “Muslim†in Âconnection with the Âterrorism crisis. The Prime Minister has also instructed his team – including new Home Secretary Jacqui Smith [...]
Continue reading...Phil’s networks
Published Thursday, March 12, 2009 at 10:53 am
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