Maverick Philosopher

Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Terrorism

  • From the Mail Bag: Islam and the West

    This from a U. K. reader: You wrote: So what measures should we in the West take?   I will mention just the most obvious and most important one: severely curtail Muslim immigration.  There is no right to immigrate, and correspondingly, we are under no obligation to let in subversive elements.    We have a culture…

  • Defeatist Liberal Losers

    Tammy Bruce has your number.

  • Islam and the West: What is my Preferred Prophylaxis?

    I wrote this last year. Its reposting, slightly redacted, is appropriate in the wake of Manchester. I explain the main thing that must be done if the West is to survive as the West.  ……………………… Things are coming to a head.  We cannot tolerate as a 'new normal' another Islamist slaughter of innocents every six…

  • What Will be Learned from Manchester?

    Nothing.

  • Terrorism and the ‘Bath Tub’ Argument

    Defeatist Londoners and other appeasers  are settling down to the 'new normal': slaughter, including beheadings, on the streets of great and not-so-great cities.  But what's the big deal? In yesterday's London incident only four were killed and only a few more injured.  Compare terror deaths with bath tub deaths and you will see that the likelihood…

  • Keep Calm and Ostrichize On

    George Neumayr's piece begins: In 2006, Melanie Phillips wrote a book called Londonistan: How Britain Is Creating a Terror State Within. She argued that Britain was a sitting duck for Islamic terrorists, owing to its idiotic embrace of political correctness, multiculturalism, and religious relativism. And ends: Keep calm and propagandize on — that’s the attitude in…

  • Barbarians Within the Gates

    Robert Royal: Some European newspapers have reported lately – very quietly – that, according to police in Germany’s North Rhineland/ Westphalia region, from 2011 to 2016 there were 3500 cases of vandalism/desecration of Christian churches. About two per day in only one region of Germany, every day for the past five years. That's the bad…

  • War, Torture, and the Aporetics of Moral Rigorism

    That the deliberate targeting of noncombatants is intrinsically evil and cannot be justified under any circumstances is one of the entailments of Catholic just war doctrine.  I am sensitive to its moral force. I am strongly inclined to say that certain actions are intrinsically wrong, wrong by their very nature as the types of actions…

  • Is Waterboarding Torture?

    Here is the opinion of a man who has both done it and had it done to him.  "I volunteered to be waterboarded myself and can assure you that it is not a pleasant experience. But no one volunteers to be tortured." Words mean things. They ought to be used responsibly. No good purpose is…

  • Obama: ‘There’s no Religious Rationale’ for Jihad Terror

    Refutation here. I am put in mind of something similar Obama said a couple of years ago.  He said, "ISIL is not Islamic." What's the reasoning behind Obama's statement?  Perhaps this: 1. All religions are good.2. Islam is a religionErgo3. Islam is good4. ISIL is not good.Ergo5. ISIL is not Islamic. This little argument illustrates…

  • ‘Homegrown Terrorist’

    Consider three types of case.  (a) A Muslim terrorist who was born in the USA and whose terrorism derives from his Islamic faith.  (b) A Muslim terrorist who was not born in the USA but is a citizen of the USA or legally resides in the USA and whose terrorism derives from his Islamic faith.…

  • 9/11 Fifteen Years After

    And the nation's borders are still not secure. 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…

  • The Peaceful Majority is Irrelevant

    Brigitte Gabriel explains why.

  • 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…

  • 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…