Category: Islamism
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Pakistani Humanist Denied UK Asylum . . .
. . . after failing to identify Plato! Holy Guacamole! (HT: Karl White) A Pakistani man who renounced his Muslim faith and became a humanist has had his application for asylum in the UK rejected after failing to correctly answer questions about ancient Greek philosophers. The Home Office said Hamza bin Walayat’s failure to identify…
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The Lapse of Laïcité: Cause and Effect
Alain Finkielkraut: Laicity is the solution that modern Europe found in order to escape its religious civil wars. But contemporary Europe doesn’t take religion seriously enough to know how to stick to this solution. She has exiled faith to the fantastic world of human irreality that the Marxists called “superstructure”… thus, precisely through their failure…
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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.
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What is the Quran?
A 'racist' screed by James V. Schall. Do not click on this link!
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Islam in the Public Square
William Kilpatrick: . . . Islam is now well on its way to controlling the public square in parts of Europe. And, were it not for the election of Donald Trump and the defeat of the Muslim Brotherhood-friendly Clinton machine, the U.S. would now be playing catch-up. As has often been observed, Islam is a political…
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The Leftist-Islamist Axis of Evil and Divine Sovereignty
James S. writes, Your point about the twin threats coming from the Left and from Islam reminded me of an email I received from Fr. Schall some months ago when I shared a draft of the Syllabus with him. He made the same point, as both the Left and Islam are voluntarist systems where will…
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Time is Not on Europe’s Side
Another warning from William Kilpatrick. Excerpt: The Importance of Will Just as conversions can accelerate after a tipping point has been reached, so can emigration. But there’s also a third factor that seems to have been left out of the Pew Center’s calculations. It’s difficult to measure, but it may be the prime factor in…
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If Islam is a Religion of Peace . . .
. . . why is it a provocation to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel? Here is how another penetrating article by William Kilpatrick ends: So on the one hand, Muslim believers are ready to commit mayhem over an academic talk or the moving of an embassy, and on the other hand, Christians remain…
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Why Don’t Catholics Fight Back?
William Kilpatrick: The chief reason is that Catholics are receiving little guidance about Islam from their leaders. And what little information they receive is misleading. The hierarchy is still sticking with the message that Islam is a religion of peace which has recently been given a bad name by a tiny handful of terrorists who…
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Islam and the Decalogue
Earlier today I wrote that ". . . the Decalogue is common to the three Abrahamic religions." Then I received a note from Claude Boisson that referred me to Howard Kainz, Islam and the Decalogue: Just as Islam teaches the reverse of the Golden Rule, it teaches the reverse of the last seven of the…
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Islam: A Giant Step Backward for Humanity
So far, everything I've read by William Kilpatrick on this depressing topic has been good.
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The Gaza Underground
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Why Are Leftists So Tolerant of Radical Islam?
William Kilpatrick uncorked a powerful insight in a must-read piece to which I linked yesterday: Because so many Americans still live mentally in a time when intolerance was considered the greatest evil, they have difficulty understanding that an indiscriminate tolerance can father just as many sins. That is part of the explanation. Related: Why the…
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Islam: The Religion of Submission
What follows are excerpts from a powerful and penetrating essay by William Kilpatrick who deserves an award for his insight and courage. Please read the entire piece. Emphases added. Submission. That’s what the word “Islam” means. Muslims must submit to Allah, and the rest of the world must eventually submit to Islam. Submission does not necessarily…
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The Most Radical Form of Islam: Neo-Bolshevik Post-Marxist Islamo-Leftism
Pascal Bruckner: And here is where the strangest factor in the whole Islamophobia controversy emerges: the enlistment of a part of the American and European Left in the defense of the most radical form of Islam—what one might call the neo-Bolshevik bigotry of the lost believers of Marxism. Having lost everything—the working class, the Third…