Bookworm on Jun 14 2009 | Filed under: Europe, Holland, Muslim violence
Tweet Sometimes, you have to be poised on the edge of the volcano to realize the threat you face. Until you get there, you might just think you’re climbing a beautiful mountainside. Bruce Bawer, a gay man living in Europe, reached the edge of the volcano and wrote While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is [...]
Bookworm on Jun 09 2008 | Filed under: Holland
Tweet 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, 2008 [...]
Bookworm on Mar 24 2008 | Filed under: Europe, Holland, Islam, Muslim violence
Tweet 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 [...]
Bookworm on Mar 11 2008 | Filed under: England, Holland, Multiculturalism
Tweet 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 [...]
Bookworm on Jan 22 2008 | Filed under: Free speech, Holland, Islam, Muslim violence
Tweet 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 [...]
Bookworm on Aug 02 2007 | Filed under: Education, Holland
Tweet 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 [...]
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