Category: Islamism
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Schall on Belloc: Islam as a Christian Heresy
This is a thought-provoking essay. Excerpts with a bit of commentary: Belloc’s thesis is that Islam began as a Christian heresy which retained the Jewish side of the faith, the Oneness and Omnipotence of God, but denied all the Christian aspects – the Incarnation, the divinity of Christ, who, as a result, became just a prophet.…
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Mollifying Muslims and Muslimfying Mollies
A must-read from the pen of Mark Steyn. And please do follow the internal links.
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The Muslim Cab Driver and the Fundamentalist Christian Pharmacist
Mark Whitten inquires by e-mail re: Alcohol, Dogs, and Muslim Cab Drivers: What is the difference between a Muslim cab driver who does not wish to transport a person with a dog or [an unopened container of] alcohol, and a fundamentalist Christian pharmacist who does not want to dispense birth control? Is there not a similar issue…
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Alcohol, Dogs, and Muslim Cab Drivers
Apparently, significant numbers of Muslim taxi drivers in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area are refusing to transport people carrying dogs or unopened containers of alcoholic beverages. There is a lesson here, but I am quite sure that liberals won't learn it, until they learn it the hard way. It is a simple lesson really: social harmony…
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The Closing of the Muslim Mind
I recommend this review of Robert R. Reilly, The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis.
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Cartoonist Molly Norris Driven into Hiding by Muslim Extremism
Story here. Among the great religions of the world, where 'great' is to be taken descriptively not normatively, Islam appears uniquely intolerant and violent. Or are there contemporary examples of Confucians, Taoists, Buddhists, Hindus, Jews, or Christians who, basing themselves on their doctrines, publically issue and carry out credible death threats against those who mock the…
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Where Were You on 9/11/01?
I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when I first of heard about the acts of 9/11 Islamoterrorism. It was a cool and bright Arizona morning, dry and delightful as only the desert can be. I had just returned from a long hard bike ride. Preliminary to some after-ride calisthenics I…
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Legality and Propriety: What One Has a Right to Do is Not Always Right to Do
What do the following have in common: Flag burning, Koran burning, suspending a crucifix in urine and calling it art, building a mosque near Ground Zero, calling a black person 'nigger,' affixing a 'Fuck Your Honor Student' bumpersticker on your car? They are all offensive, but they are all legal. Flag burning. If you steal my…
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Der Fall Sarrazin
Economist's Views on Muslim Immigrants Sparks Controversy in Germany. The Scandal Behind the Sarrazin Scandal (To link is not to endorse. This weblog is an online notebook. I often link to items that interest me and to which I may want to return.)
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Sick of the GZ Mosque Yet?
If not, New Yorkers Want Islamic Center Moved. But Farrakhan wants it built. Ever watch a speech by Farrakhan? His oratory is Hitlerian. It is as if he has studied Hitler's speeches. He starts out very calmly. He says things that are reasonable, indeed things that conservatives would applaud. He preaches self-reliance and self-discipline. That is…
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Walid Shoebat
Here.
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Are Opponents of the Ground Zero Mosque Bigots?
The mavens of what Bernard Goldberg calls the 'lame-stream' media have been trumpeting the canard that opponents of the Ground Zero mosque are 'bigots.' No doubt some are. But not in virtue of their opposition to the GZM. There is nothing inherently bigoted about opposition to the GZM. Or so I shall argue. But first we…
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The Holy Roman Empire and the Ground Zero Mosque
Somewhere in Saul Kripke's Naming and Necessity he employs the example of the Holy Roman Empire which was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire. Well, I heard the Ground Zero mosque described this morning by a Muslim on C-Span as neither at Ground Zero nor a mosque. As for the first claim, take a gander…
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Robert Royal on the GZM
Here. Excerpt: If you’re like me, you’ve probably heard enough about the mosque. But the problem for me is that what I’m hearing doesn’t seem to address the main question. When NY Mayor Bloomberg says it’s a tragedy if 9/11 results in the loss of religious liberty – as if Islam were being curtailed here –…
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Hats Off to Hentoff: “Pols Clueless on Ground Zero Mosque”
Here. Excerpts: Imam Rauf has refused to call Hamas a terrorist organization and had no comment when, on Aug. 15, Mahmoud al-Zahar, its co-founder, strongly supported the Imam's mosque near Ground Zero, saying, Muslims "have to build everywhere" (Associated Press, Aug. 16). Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said the support by Hamas of the Imam's mosque…