Category: Terrorism
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Roots of Antifa
Almost all of my political commentary and linkage these days is at my Facebook page, but some of you so despise that platform that you will not join me there. I fully understand. But this article is important enough to be worth citing here.
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Of Hillary and Robespierre
Richard Fernandez: Perhaps the magnitude of Hillary's 2016 loss is only now becoming apparent. Clinton didn't just lose the White House, she also lost the Democratic center to the radical ornaments. The diminution of Brooks, Stevens, Kristof, and even Biden are the consequence of that defeat. The radicals who once served the useful purpose of putting fear…
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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 Seventeen Years Later
The morning of 9/11 was a beautiful, dry Arizona morning. Back from a hard run, I flipped on the TV while doing some cool-down exercises only to see one of the planes crash into one of the towers. I knew right away what was going on. I said to my wife, "Well, two good things…
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Another Argument for Gun Rights
Terror in Budapest And another. Leftist thugs threaten Jordan Peterson.
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The Obama-Hezbollah Connection
Worried about collusion? Investigate this! Yet another positive benefit of Trump's election is that now we have a good chance of knowing the real truth about Hillary and Obama. Richard Fernandez comments. (HT: Bill Keezer)
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Robert Spencer’s Ban from the U.K.
The following from a London correspondent: Quite incredibly, Spencer is still banned from visiting the UK because of what he says in this short (2:07) YouTube video. The letter from the Home Office, then under the auspices of Theresa May, said: You are reported to have stated the following: >>It [Islam] is a religion and a…
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Nazis Hid Their Crimes; Islamists Exult in Theirs
By Kevin Myers. The Sunday Times, 11 June 2017. Via Karl White who provided me with the text and who tells me that "Kevin Myers is one of Ireland's most controversial writers." The 'purple passages' are by your humble correspondent. ……………………………….. A suicide bomber attacking a concert for little girls is a little earlier in…
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Quotation of the Day
From Malcolm Pollack's Cower of London entry: When you won’t build a wall around your country, you must build walls around everything inside your country. Along the same lines, is it not insane for Western countries to expend blood and treasure battling ISIS and other Islamist terror groups in their lands while allowing Muslims to…
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Dalrymple on Creative Appeasement, Candles, and Teddy Bears
Here: They perceive ours as a candle-and-teddy-bear society . . . We kill, you light candles. And so acts of terrorism are not expressions of nihilism or desperation, but reasonable, methodical steps to topple a society that has become too weak and decadent to have the will to defend itself even though it has the…
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Equanimity, Arizona Style
The Brits may want to rethink their gun laws in the light of recent events. Katie Hopkins lays into Sadiq Khan, mayor of London. Keep calm and carry on? Keep calm, and carry one! By the way, are there any cities or towns in Muslim countries that have Christian or non-Muslim mayors or other government…
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Theresa May: Still Pussyfooting Around
The prime minister is right that ". . . our values – pluralistic British values – are superior to anything offered by the preachers and supporters of hate." But her Enough is Enough statement shows that she and her countrymen lack the will to take the steps necessary to deal adequately with the Islamist scourge…
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Time for a Moratorium on Immigration from Muslim Lands?
Here we go again. The third terrorist attack in the U. K. since March of this year. And so time to re-run the following entry from 5 December 2015. Please think it through for your own good and that of your descendants. …………. And now San Bernardino. It is surely 'interesting' that in supposedly conservative…
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Immigration Policy Comes First
I have been discussing Islamist terrorism with a couple of Brits who are open to the sorts of things I say. One of them I know is a conservative; the other I think is. What struck me is that both make a curious lefty move. The move is well-described by Heather Mac Donald: Defenders of…
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Andrew C. McCarthy on the Islamist Challenge to Religious Liberty
McCarthy knows this subject from the inside and sees things with blinding clarity: . . . the challenge of Islam must be confronted head-on and without apology. That is unavoidable. You can’t flinch. It is a certainty that the Democrat-media complex — of which Islamist organizations are members in good standing — is going to…