Category: Islamism
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Not All Muslims are Terrorists. . .
. . . but most terrorists are Muslims. Everyone on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorist list is a Muslim male except for two, a woman and an animal rights extremist. Is the FBI run by 'Islamophobes'? Is the NRA run by 'hoplophobes'? This is why subjecting a Mormon matron from Salt Lake City to the same…
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Radical Islam
Obama's politically correct complacency about the threat is well-argued by Victor Davis Hanson. Bob Beckel, liberal, shows for once that even a liberal can on occasion display common sense. On the question of terminology I am pleased to see that Horace Jeffery Hodges and I are in agreement. It is a pleasure to be so…
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Islam, Radical Islam, and the Left’s Denial of the Threat
In the nine years I have been blogging I have been careful to distinguish between Islam and radical Islam (militant Islam, Islamism, Islamofascism, etc.) I can't say I have had any really good reason for this charitableness on my part. Perhaps it is that I just didn't want to believe that 'moderate Muslim' is as much…
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Jeannine Pirro Tells the Truth to ‘Jihad Mom’
This had to be said and Judge Pirro does a wonderful job of it. What I love about the Fox ladies: beauty, brains, and balls — or the female equivalent thereof. "We should not be required to breathe the same air as you, we should not be required to share the indignity of your presence"…
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Schopenhauer on Islam, “The Saddest and Poorest Form of Theism”
Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, tr. E. F. J. Payne, vol. II (Dover, 1966), p. 162. This is from Chapter XVII, "On Man's Need for Metaphysics" (emphases added and a paragraph break): Temples and churches, pagodas and mosques, in all countries and ages, in their splendour and spaciousness, testify to man's need…
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The Lessons of Boston
Learn Ralph Peters' lessons of Boston, or there may be a pressure cooker in your future. As for the moral equivalency of Christianity and Islam, Bill Maher, certainly no friend of religion, achieves the right tone, "That's liberal bullshit." When some academic leftist says something that is plainly false, his pronouncement should not be treated with…
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Be Afraid
In this fine piece, Marilyn Penn takes Thomas Friedman to task. Her article begins thusly (emphasis added): In Thomas Friedman’s op ed on the Boston marathon massacre (Bring On the Next Marathon, NYT 4/17), the boldface caption insists “We’re just not afraid anymore.” Perhaps this is true for a traveling journalist who doesn’t use the subway…
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Achmed the Terrorist
In the off-chance that you haven't had an occasion to bust your gut over Jeff Dunham's ventriloquy, check this out. Mockery and derision are important weapons in the culture war. It is not enough to argue rigorously and patiently against the liberal-left enablers and apologists of radical Islam. Also needed is to make them and…
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Diana West on ‘Islamist’
Her article begins: The AP [Associated Press] Stylebook has opened a new chapter on the non-"offensive" Engllsh-language lexicon to parse the war on the world waged by Islam. The wire service bible (can I say that?) has decreed that "Islamist" is out as a "a synonym for Islamic fighters, militants, extremists or radicals." …
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‘Islamophobic’
Well, if you are 'Islamophobic,' then, given that a phobia is an irrational fear, you have an irrational fear of Islam or of certain Muslims. Is that really what you want to say? Do you really want to announce to the world that you are proud to have a phobia? I should think that fear…
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On the Left’s Toleration of Muslim Fanatics
Here is an important interview with Lars Hedegaard, Denmark's Salman Rushdie, whose life is in danger because he speaks the truth as he sees it. Hedegaard is a man of the Left, but do they come to his defense? Excerpt: DP: Where are the attacks on you being racist coming from? What part of the…
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Leftist First, Catholic Second
For too many Catholics and other Christians, their leftism is their real 'religion.' This from The Thinking Housewife: ANNY YENNY reports at the website Politichicks that her eighth-grade son was given extra credit by his Catholic school religion teacher for fasting on the first day of Ramadan. When the mother complained, the teacher objected and…
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The Danger of Appeasing the Intolerant
What follows is a slightly redacted post from three years ago whose message bears repeating, especially since Barack the Appeaser, Barack the Bower-and-Scraper, has been reelected. …………. Should we tolerate the intolerant? Should we, in the words of Leszek Kolakowski, . . . tolerate political or religious movements which are hostile to tolerance and seek…
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Is the Middle East Exempted From the Rules of Civilized Behavior?
The attitude of liberals towards Muslims is similar to their attitude toward blacks and other minorities: they don't demand much of them. For example, liberals expect that blacks in significant numbers will lack photo ID and will therefore be 'disenfranchised' if asked to present such at the polling place as common sense requires. Such a…
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The Unholy Alliance With Islamism: Does the Left Have a Death Wish?
Mike Liccione's name came up over dinner with John Farrell, who has met Mike. Small world. (It also turns out that John now lives on the same street only a few doors down from where I lived for part of my time in Boston. Small world again.) Mention of Mike put me in mind of…