Category: Islamism
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Radical Islam’s Threat to the Left
Substack latest. Why don't leftists — who obviously do not share the characteristic values and beliefs of Islamists — grant what is spectacularly obvious to everyone else, namely, that radical Islam poses a grave threat to what we in the West cherish as civilization, which includes commitments to free speech, open inquiry, separation of church…
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Christianity Civilizes
Does Islam? To the same extent? Top o' the Stack.
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Jews, Muslims, Science and Technology
Which group has contributed more to science and technology? Jews or Muslims? And why? Question prompted by this: Today, Jewish and Israeli MIT students were physically prevented from attending class by a hostile group of pro-Hamas and anti-Israel MIT students that call themselves the CAA [Coalition Against Apartheid, apparently].
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Up on the Roof
Not "The Drifters" version. Given the pronounced 'libertine wobble' of leftists, it is passing strange that they would support Islamists who are anti-libertine and anti-liberal in excelsis. The loons of the Left appear to have lost their minds so much so that they care not whether they lose their heads. Tony Flood, who sent me…
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And You Call for a Cease-Fire?
Take a look at the massacre map. Then read this: The world is yet again staring at the near inevitability of another global conflagration. The flashpoint is in the Middle East and the Hitler of our time: the Mullahs of Iran. The West, led by Barack Obama and Joe Biden, have chosen to follow in…
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‘Islamophobia’ and ‘Hoplophobia’
A very polite Substack chiding of the stupid and often vicious use of these terms. My entry shows how to make a point rationally and stylishly without any use of invective and only the slightest trace of sarcasm. You have to cultivate the ability to write in a civil and respectful way. But you must…
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The State of Things When the ‘Leader’ of the ‘Free World’ is a Puppet
I asked Dr. Vito Caiati, historian, whether Donald Trump's being in office would have made any difference to the present geopolitical mess, and this is what he wrote: As for the present miserable state of the world, I think that had Trump remained in office neither the war in the Ukraine nor the war in…
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Robert Paul Wollf on Benjamin Netanyahu
Substack latest.
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When People Tell You Who They Are, Believe Them
Bari Weiss: Here you can watch people gathered at the Sydney Opera House cheering “gas the Jews” and “death to the Jews.” People are rejoicing in the slaughter on the streets of Berlin and London and Toronto and New York. (Scroll down to read our Free Press dispatch on the celebrations in Manhattan.) At our most prestigious universities there is silence from administrations that leapt to speak…
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Sam Harris on the Moral Difference between Israel and her Enemies
On this topic Harris is right. The truth is that there is an obvious, undeniable, and hugely consequential moral difference between Israel and her enemies. The Israelis are surrounded by people who have explicitly genocidal intentions towards them. The charter of Hamas is explicitly genocidal. It looks forward to a time, based on Koranic prophesy,…
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9/11 Twenty-Two Years Later
Top o' the Stack. Was 9/11 an 'inside job'? I take no position on this question. Here is a review of David Ray Griffin's latest. To say it again: linkage does not constitute endorsement in whole or in part. UPDATE New York Tony writes: Since I was a kid, I would annually see the demolition of…
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Notes on Avicenna: Essence, Existence, and Creation
Time was when the Islamic world could boast world-class philosophers. The Persian Ibn Sina (980-1037 anno domini) was one of them. He is known in the West as Avicenna. Translated into Latin, his works had a major influence on the philosophy of the 12th and 13th centuries and beyond. De Ente et Essentia of Thomas…
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Death as a Boon to the Spiritual
I read the Sufi mystic Rūmī (1207-1273) when I lived in Turkey, 1995-1996. Here is an entry from my Turkish journal written on Christmas Eve morning, 1995. The following quotation is from The Masnavi. Death is in reality a boon to the spiritual, and it is only fools who cry, "Would that this world might…
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The Religion of Archeological Preservation
If Islam is the religion of peace, then it is also the religion of archeological preservation. Modus tollens or modus ponens? Images here.