Bookworm on Jun 09 2008 | Filed under: Holland
My earlier post about the knifing atrocity in Japan, which seemed to happen without any citizen attempts to block the attack, garnered a lot of interesting comments. Danny Lemieux now sent me the perfect follow-up link to Bruce Bawer’s blog. (I can’t find any permalinks there, but just land on the June 9, [...]
Bookworm on Mar 24 2008 | Filed under: Europe, Holland, Islam, Muslim violence
As I’m sure you’ve heard, Geert Wilders, the Dutch politician has made a 15 minute long film that demonstrates how violent Islam is. He describes it as a film made with a split screen that has, on one side, passages from the Koran and, on the other side, modern footage of Islamists putting those passages [...]
Bookworm on Mar 11 2008 | Filed under: England, Holland, Multiculturalism
The moral equivalence crowd, the one that says all cultures are created equal, except that non-Western cultures are better than others, is going to have to pretzel itself severely to deal with this one:
Homosexuals deserve to be executed or tortured and possibly both, an Iranian leader told British MPs during a private meeting at [...]
Bookworm on Jan 22 2008 | Filed under: Free speech, Holland, Islam, Muslim violence
A Dutch politician described as “radical right-wing” and “extremist”* is about to trigger some new convulsions amongst Holland’s Islamic residents:
The Dutch government is bracing itself for violent protests following the scheduled broadcast this week of a provocative anti-Muslim film by a radical right-wing politician who has threatened to broadcast images of the Koran being torn [...]
Bookworm on Aug 02 2007 | Filed under: Education, Holland
You know that I think the best teaching method out there is a pure Montessori approach. It focuses on how children learn, rather than on how union educators think teachers ought to teach, and instills in children a lifelong love of learning, and a depth of understanding that’s foreign to most American children.
Perhaps Montessori [...]
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