Category: Terrorism
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Who Are These Hamas Supporters?
This just in from Tony Flood: "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!” chant the useful idiots at elite institutions and parades in the West. Who are these people? Atheists who support theocratic lunatics, democrats who endorse medieval tyrants, feminists who defend misogynists who parade with the desecrated corpses of women, gays who…
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Taqiyya
Gaza's Health Ministry said the Palestinian death toll from the war has climbed to 30,320. The ministry doesn’t differentiate between civilians and combatants in its figures, but says women and children make up around two-thirds of those killed. That many? Could be. But the Islamic doctrine of taqiyya gives one a reason to be skeptical. I have…
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Terrorist and Non-Terrorist Gun-Related Deaths
Top o' the Stack. Clear thinking provided; vicious abstraction opposed. Once again, I take on Howlin' Wolff, the Stoned Philosopher. (In all fairness, his little book on anarchism is excellent, and he is a good Kant scholar.) Memo to self: write a separate post on vicious abstraction, an informal fallacy, undiscussed as far as I…
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Jewish Disproportionality!
Not even the Hamas sexual atrocities recounted on the basis of a NYT report by Alex Berenson justify Jewish disproportionality: On Thursday, The New York Times recounted in awful detail the sexual atrocities the men of Gaza committed during Hamas’s October 7 raid into Israel. I know Jeffrey Gettleman, who had the piece’s lead byline. He is…
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Political Polarization: the Radical Cure
Political polarization is deep and wide. We are 'siloed' into our positions and things threaten to go 'thermonuclear.' The usual cures cannot be dismissed out of hand, but are mostly blather served up by squishy, bien-pensant 'liberals' for their own insipid and clueless ilk. No doubt we should listen to others respectfully, but how many…
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Radical Islam’s Threat to the Left
Substack latest. Why don't leftists — who obviously do not share the characteristic values and beliefs of Islamists — grant what is spectacularly obvious to everyone else, namely, that radical Islam poses a grave threat to what we in the West cherish as civilization, which includes commitments to free speech, open inquiry, separation of church…
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And You Call for a Cease-Fire?
Take a look at the massacre map. Then read this: The world is yet again staring at the near inevitability of another global conflagration. The flashpoint is in the Middle East and the Hitler of our time: the Mullahs of Iran. The West, led by Barack Obama and Joe Biden, have chosen to follow in…
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Dinesh D’Souza on our Incipient Police State
Here, with a link to a trailer of his new movie. ………………………. 'Terrorist' is experiencing semantic spread. It emerged in the Congressional FBI whistleblower hearings that the abbreviation '2A' is a "terrorist marker." That came as news to me. (But see here.) I have been using '2A' from time to time as an innocuous abbreviation of…
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An Argument for Capacious Magazines
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When People Tell You Who They Are, Believe Them
Bari Weiss: Here you can watch people gathered at the Sydney Opera House cheering “gas the Jews” and “death to the Jews.” People are rejoicing in the slaughter on the streets of Berlin and London and Toronto and New York. (Scroll down to read our Free Press dispatch on the celebrations in Manhattan.) At our most prestigious universities there is silence from administrations that leapt to speak…
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Jacques Derrida on 9/11
John Searle famously remarked that Derrida gives bullshit a bad name. Striking indeed is the French penchant for pseudo-literary vaporosity. "Something" took place, we have the feeling of not having seen it coming, and certain consequences undeniably follow upon the "thing." But this very thing, the place and meaning of this "event," remains ineffable, like…
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9/11 Twenty-Two Years Later
Top o' the Stack. Was 9/11 an 'inside job'? I take no position on this question. Here is a review of David Ray Griffin's latest. To say it again: linkage does not constitute endorsement in whole or in part. UPDATE New York Tony writes: Since I was a kid, I would annually see the demolition of…
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‘2A’ a Terrorist Marker?
It emerged in the Congressional FBI whistleblower hearings that the abbreviation '2A' is a "terrorist marker." That came as news to me. (But see here.) I have been using '2A' from time to time as an innocuous abbreviation of 'Second Amendment.' The context, of course, is the Bill of Rights which are the first ten…
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The Erasure of History at the University of Leicester
Another incident in the suicide of the West. And in England of all places. The battle appears to be lost in the mother country and in the rest of the Anglosphere with the exception of the United States of America. Here is where the West will make its last stand, or else begin to turn…