Category: Islamism
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Shari’a is Already Here
John Pepple explains.
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Extreme Vetting or Just Common Sense?
The latter. "But you can't bar Muslims from immigrating! We have freedom of religion! That's not who we are! That goes against our values!" Andrew C. McCarthy answers this sort of nonsense very sensibly here. As I would put it: Freedom of religion does not extend to the protection of a hybrid political-religious ideology whose…
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The Subterranean Link and the ‘Bow-Tie Brigade’
Here is perhaps the deepest connection, the subterranean link, between the decidedly strange bedfellows, Leftism and Islamism: both deny the absoluteness of truth and both make it subservient to power and arbitrary will. But how is it that Islamists attack objective truth? Aren't they theists? Don't they believe in an absolute source and ground of…
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Appeasement and a Double Standard
Just as we ought not tolerate intolerance, especially the murderous intolerance of radical Muslims, we ought not try to appease the intolerant. Appeasement is never the way to genuine peace. The New York Time's call for Benedict XVI to apologize for quoting the remarks of a Byzantine emperor is a particularly abject example of appeasement. This…
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If You Don’t Want Your Daughters Raped by Foreigners, Are You a Xenophobe?
Brexit was sparked by rape and crime British girls raped by Muslim gangs on 'industrial scale' Why did British police ignore Pakistani gangs abusing 1,400 Rotherham children? According to Roger Scuton, because of political correctness: A story of rampant child abuse—ignored and abetted by the police—is emerging out of the British town of Rotherham. Until…
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Political, not Religious
As an addendum to The Incompatibility of Islam and the West, let me add that the case against Muslim immigration is political not religious. It is because Muslims are politically subversive that their immigration must be curtailed or eliminated, not because they have a different religion. The U. S. Constitution in its First Amendment guarantees…
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Profiling, Prejudice, and Discrimination
Everybody profiles. Liberals are no exception. Liberals reveal their prejudices by where they live, shop, send their kids to school, and with whom they associate. The word 'prejudice' needs analysis. It could refer to blind prejudice: unreasoning, reflexive (as opposed to reflective) aversion to what is other just because it is other, or to an unreasoning…
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The Case for Separationism Grows Stronger
What is separationism? Lawrence Auster explains: I subscribe to the now tiny but, I believe, some-day-to-be prevalent Separationist School of Western-Islamic Relations. We separationists affirm the following: Islam is a mortal threat to our civilization. But we cannot destroy Islam. Nor can we democratize Islam. Nor can we assimilate Islam. Therefore the only way to…
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The Incompatibility of Islam with the West
From an astute correspondent: So we come back to the concept of Sharia, which you rightly mentioned in one of your posts. This is really the thing where Islam stands out from other religions, the idea that religious belief should be the basis of law. Here I found Islamic Law: The Sharia from Muhammad's Time…
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‘Homegrown Terrorist’
An obfuscatory leftist phrase. And therefore used by Obama the Mendacious. Why obfuscatory? Because it elides an important distinction between those terrorists who are truly homegrown such as Timothy McVeigh and those who, while born in the USA, such as Omar Mateen, derive their 'inspiration' from foreign sources. Mateen's terrorism comes from his understanding of what Islam…
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List of Islamist Terror Attacks
From the 1980s to the present. Some lists are 'static,' some 'dynamic.' The Ten Commandments is static whereas the list of Islamist outrages is unfortunately dynamic, highly dynamic. Exercise for the reader. Compile a list of Christian terror attacks from the 1980s to the present and compare its length to that of the Islamist…
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Libel?
Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 13 June: "Omar Mateen despised gays in the same way that Donald Trump and too many of his supporters despise Muslims." Why isn't this libel? 'Libel' as defined in the law: 1) n. to publish in print (including pictures), writing or broadcast through radio, television or film, an untruth about another…
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Victor Davis Hanson Takes a Trumpian Line on Muslim Immigration
It's about time these establishment types began wising up: [. . .] Immigration to the U.S., and citizenship itself, should be seen, again, as a privilege, not a right—and assimilation and integration, not multicultural separatism and ethnic and religious chauvinism, should be the goal of the host. We need not single out Muslims in terms…
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Sharia: Coming to a Nightclub Near You
Well, it has come to a nightclub, a homosexual establishment, though it might not be near you. But do you think that this is the last incident of its kind? Bruce Bawer at the excellent City Journal: On CNN and Fox News, one politician after another professed to be “shocked” by the massacre in Orlando.…
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Sharia: Coming to a Swimming Pool Near You
Enjoy! Let me see if I understand this. Every vestige of Christianity is to be removed from the public square, while Muslims are allowed to impose their anti-Enlightenment and un-American values and practices in said square at taxpayer expense? Related articles The Crusades Were Defensive Wars Why the Left Will Not Admit the Threat of…