The word used in the report in Le Monde is "demuni" -- meaning they are helpless in the face of those demonstrations, because they have no convincing arguments, only the usual attitudinizing and treacly statements about  the wonderfulness of Muslim immigrants, who fit in so well, and since that is palpably ...Read More...

The government elected in September is now out, but not before it did a lot of damage in a few months. The problem with Sweden, the result of the crazedlet-everyone-in ideology of many of those who are in its ruling class, here.  ...Read More...

In any case, wasn't Jesus of Nazareth from Nazareth? In which Bethlehem do you believe, here.   ...Read More...

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It is not right, it is not just, that non-Muslims can live in lands where they appear to be on top, where they can openly put up Christmas decorations, and go to open-air Christmas markets, and not appear even to realize that this situation cannot continue, for it is an offense to Allah, and to what ...Read More...

Tim Arango reports on the sectarian and ethnic conflicts, exacerbated by the Shi'ite militias going to war on the Islamic State, here. The Ottoman vilayets of Basra, Mosul, and Baghdad were spatchcocked together by the British, who then put a Hashemite -- that is, Sunni Arab -- ruler upon the throne ...Read More...

Here. You know why this is being posted today, a few days before Christmas and before the year, the calendar and the tax year, comes to an end. Perhaps its appearance will prompt you to think about this site, and how you look forward to seeing what's new on its particular rialto.  And ask yourself ...Read More...

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Jamal Khashoggi here. Families, communities, societies, states suffused with Islam exhibit similar features. Aggression, violence, an inability to compromise, an inability to think logically or to exhibit the kind of skepticism that keeps the level of conspiracy-theorizing within manageable limits, ...Read More...

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Many such stories connecting the psychically marginal to Islam have just appeared in the French press, after the attacks in Dijon and Jouet. And just today a driver, in a truck, mowed down people visiting  the Christmas Fair in Nantes, gravely wounding a number, and Cazeneuve was quick to say there ...Read More...

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Here Mustafa Akyol, a Turkish Defender of the Faith who thinks of himself, not accurately, as a "liberal," has had a good run claiming all kinds of things about a rightly-guided Islam. He was a defender of Erdogan, too, for a long time, but now that that is impossible, he has decided to make a comparison ...Read More...

What hopes, what dreams, those who founded Brandeis in 1948, in improbable Waltham, with a motley series of buildings that somehow became a campus -- and hired all kinds of people who were, in those fresh and innocent and more intelligent days, hired without the credentials (the graduate degree, and ...Read More...

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It's trying to imitate the Islamic State. Here. ...Read More...

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