Maverick Philosopher

Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Islamism

  • Pat Condell on Islamist Cultural Terrorism

    Here.  He's one ballsy Brit.

  • Why the Collapse of Philosophical Studies in the Islamic World?

    Leo Strauss sketches an answer in his "How to Begin to Study Medieval Philosophy" in The Rebirth of Classical Political Rationalism, ed. T. L. Pangle, University of Chicago Press, 1989, pp. 221-222, bolding added: For the Jew and the Moslem, religion is primarily not, as it is for the Christian, a faith formulated in dogmas,…

  • On Joy at Osama’s Demise: Dennis Prager Responds to Me on the Air

    It's been an interesting morning.  At 10:30 AM I noticed that my traffic was way up for the day.  And then at 11:12 AM I heard Dennis Prager reading on the air the first paragraph of a post of mine from yesterday in which I express my disappointment at Prager for rejoicing over Osama bin Laden's death…

  • Is Osama bin Laden in Hell?

    Jeremy Lott, Osama bin Laden in Hell: To keep Osama's purported martyrdom from inspiring others, the point needs to be made, loudly and repeatedly, that killing innocent people is not the path to heaven. This will put the US government, and Barack Obama in particular, in an an awkward spot. It is undoubtedly a theological…

  • The Wages of Appeasement

    I am right now listening to Michael Medved interview Bruce S. Thornton, a colleague of Victor Davis Hanson, and author of The Wages of Appeasement.   Here is a Front Page interview with Thornton.  Excerpt: MT: Could you talk a bit about one of the recurring themes among the three historical examples you write about in…

  • Bill Maher on Islam

    As much as a jackass as Bill Maher can be, he's on target in this video.

  • The Politically Incorrect Incendiarism of Ann Barnhardt

    I confine my politically incorrect incendiarism to the occasional lighting up of a fine cigar. In some circles that is 'incendiary' enough.   I don't believe in burning books.  If you want to understand National Socialism, you must read, not burn, Mein Kampf.  If you want to understand Islamism, you must read, not burn, the Koran.   Ann Barnhardt,…

  • General Petraeus, the Koran, and Political Correctness in the Military

    Here is General Petraeus' condemnation of the burning by a Florida pastor of the Koran.  And here is some excellent commentary by Andrew C. McCarthy.  Excerpt (emphasis added): Down at Gitmo, the Defense Department gives the Koran to each of the terrorists even though DoD knows they interpret it (not without reason) to command them…

  • Bill Bennett on Radical Islam

    Here.   One wonders, though, how much effect the avuncular calm and understated reasonableness of a Bill Bennett can have in the face of Islamist fanaticism. Bennett mentions Choudhury.  You can get a taste of him starting at 8:14 here.  Brace yourself.   

  • Muslim Groups Fomenting Hysteria over Rep. Pete King Hearings

    Brace yourself for the crapload of liberal-left blather sure to inundate us  over the 'McCarthyism' of the Pete King investigation.  Hats off to Pete King, a true profile in courage, who stands up to militant Islam and its liberal-left enablers.  Here is Steven Emerson, an expert commentator on these matters (emphasis added): The line of…

  • Mosques Flourish in America; Churches Perish in Muslim World

    Read it!

  • The ‘Religion of Peace’ Strikes Again

    A London man was viciously attacked (face slashed, skull fractured) "for teaching other religions to Muslim girls."  I guess the Brits haven't learned that toleration has limits and that allowing mass immigration of uncivilized and uncivilizable elements can't lead to anything good.  (Or do they perhaps have a death wish?)  One hopes that the Brits…

  • No Mention of Radical Islam in the Reports on the Fort Hood Massacre

    Dorothy Rabinowitz, Major Hasan, 'Star Officer'

  • The Shame of Britain’s Muslim Schools

    Here. Why are Western societies allowing themselves to be infiltrated?  Does liberalism have a death wish?  Imagine a toleration so tolerant that it tolerates its own destruction.  Do you think that toleration just might have limits?  Does asking these questions make one an 'Islamophobe'?  UPDATE.  An English correspondent comments:  It's true, what's going on in Britain's…

  • Pat Condell on Multiculturalism

    An articulate Brit (an expression the pleonasm of which is the inverse image of the oxymoronic status of 'articulate American') with balls of brass who speaks the plain truth about the semantic perversion of 'multiculturalism.'  Actually, there are very few words that leftists will not hijack and pilot to some PeeCee destination.