Archive for the 'Islam' Category
Bookworm on Dec 04 2012 | Filed under: Christians, Islam, Lefties on Parade
Tweet I adore traditional Christmas music, whether it’s the Old English Christmas Carols or the non-denominational Christmas songs that began to the music market with Irving Berlin’s White Christmas. I’m as happy singing O Holy Night as I am singing Here Comes Santa Claus. Christmas songs give me a huge endorphin rush. There’s one class [...]
Bookworm on Nov 26 2012 | Filed under: Homosexuality, Islam, Lefties on Parade, Leftist morality, Libya
Tweet In today’s news, we learned that Muslims in Libya kidnapped twelve men that they claimed were homosexuals in order to execute them: Extremists say they will execute a dozen men they allege are homosexuals, whom they abducted last Thursday at a private party in Tripoli’s Ain Zara district. A body calling itself the ‘Private [...]
Bookworm on Nov 20 2012 | Filed under: California, Islam, Muslim violence
Tweet The headline in the San Francisco Chronicle was simple: “FBI: 4 Calif. men charged in alleged terror plot.” California men, huh? Did they have names like Big Kahuna and look like this? “Yo, dude, I’m like going to, you know, like, attack the man. It’ll be, like, totally tubular.” No? Well maybe these California [...]
Bookworm on Nov 18 2012 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Hamas, Islam, Israel, Media matters
Tweet It’s been another family-maintenance day, which precludes not only blogging but, quite often, even thinking. Having a house full of children is revitalizing and exhausting all at once. I also took my Mom clothes shopping, which makes her extraordinarily happy, but leaves me limp and floppy. I am every cheapskate’s dream, because I just [...]
Bookworm on Oct 29 2012 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Egypt, Islam, Military, Muslim violence
Tweet I’m guessing that a majority of Americans (a slim majority, but still a majority) know that America entered WWII because the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. What few stop to consider is why we ended up fighting, not only the Japanese who had just bombed us, but the Germans as well, since they, after all, [...]
Bookworm on Oct 08 2012 | Filed under: Islam
Tweet I tried posting yesterday but, every time I got within striking distance of my computer, someone in the house would set up a plaintive cry, desperate for my company (or, more usually, my services). Anyhoo… If I had posted yesterday, I would have linked to this story that Navy One investigated, about a Muslim [...]
Bookworm on Sep 21 2012 | Filed under: Islam, Muslim violence
Tweet [Video embed problem corrected. I'm having lots of problems with my computer (I'll be getting a new one soon), but am at a loss to know how I managed to embed the wrong video, as I had the correct video on my screen when I got the link for the video embed.] Videos such [...]
Bookworm on Sep 21 2012 | Filed under: Free speech, Islam, Muslim violence
Tweet I wish I’d said it this well: It’s really quite amazing. In Pakistan, Egypt, and the Palestinian territories, Christians are being harassed, brutalized, and even murdered, often with state support, or at least state indulgence. And let’s not even talk about the warm reception Jews receive in much of the Muslim world. And yet, [...]
Bookworm on Sep 11 2012 | Filed under: America, Egypt, Free speech, Islam, Muslim violence
Tweet Yes, I understand that the embassy in Cairo is besieged but it does strike me as cowardly to abandon core principles as this juncture (emphasis mine): U.S. Embassy Condemns Religious Incitement September 11, 2012 The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings [...]
Bookworm on Aug 26 2012 | Filed under: Islam
Tweet Identity politics worked very well for the Democrats for a long time, provided that they played the various little groups off against “white men.” Barring some in-fighting in academia amongst various “victim” subgroups — a spectacle that Christina Hoff Sommers described to hilarious effect in Who Stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed Women — [...]
Bookworm on Jul 13 2012 | Filed under: Islam
Tweet The Sun, a Canadian newspaper, took a few minutes to travel to a Muslim online dating site (SingleMuslims.com), and noticed something a bit perplexing about the site. I have to agree: this just doesn’t make sense. Nevertheless, as the Romans so wittily said, de gustibus non est disputandum.
Bookworm on Jul 13 2012 | Filed under: Islam, United Nations
Tweet Jonah Goldberg on the disgrace that is the U.N. Charles Krauthammer on the misnamed “Arab Spring,” which is really an Islamist ascendency.
Bookworm on Jun 21 2012 | Filed under: Islam
Tweet Obama is so bad, the Clinton era starts to look good. And Obama’s crude use of his children is so bad (dragged out when they’re presence is useful, off-limits when it’s not), that one really has to appreciate how zealously and effectively Bill and Hillary shielded Chelsea from the public. I wish that Bill [...]
Bookworm on Jun 10 2012 | Filed under: Islam
Tweet In America, there was for some time a nature versus nurture debate regarding homosexuality. I think the current view is that sexuality runs along a spectrum, with some people fixed firmly at one end or the other, and others, in the middle, who may be affected by the culture around them. Folks, we’re all [...]
Bookworm on Mar 28 2012 | Filed under: Free speech, Islam
Tweet This video is a year old but, especially with the latest Koran burning “scandal,” is as pertinent now as it was when first made: Hat tip: W”B”S
Bookworm on Feb 16 2012 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Islam, Israel, Lefties on Parade
Tweet My brain is slowly warming up here so I’m not yet capable of original content. Instead, let me offer other people’s wonderful stuff. To get this set started, you have to begin by reading a speech that the Ayatollah Khomeini made in 1942, in which he stated explicitly that Islam is not a religion [...]
Bookworm on Feb 13 2012 | Filed under: Islam, Lefties on Parade, Media matters
Tweet Eric Allen Bell, a former Daily Kos contributor and an independent filmmaker for Left-leaning outlets, had an epiphany recently: Islam is not a nice religion. Indeed, it’s a very un-nice religion, one that sees the embodiment of human perfection in a child-raping, misogynistic, antisemitic crime lord. When he tried to share that epiphany with [...]
Bookworm on Feb 10 2012 | Filed under: Christians, Homosexuality, Islam, Media matters
Tweet The Daily Mail created a lovely matched set, showing side-by-side stories that perfectly illustrate the difference between life in a 21st century Sharia state and life in a 21st century Christian state: Life in a Sharia state: “We, the state, are going to kill gays.” Life in a Christian state: “I’d like to warn [...]
Bookworm on Feb 03 2012 | Filed under: Islam, Jihad
Tweet You have to read Andrew McCarthy’s book, The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America, to get the whole story, but this is a good (and worrisome) introduction:
Bookworm on Jan 28 2012 | Filed under: Hollywood, Islam
Tweet Liam Neeson’s flirting with converting to Islam, a religious quest made possible by the fact that the religion has great calls to prayer and everyone does it (at least in Muslim countries) — and, no, I’m not exaggerating when I belittle his expressed motive when he contemplates abandoning the Catholicism of his childhood in [...]
Bookworm on Jan 06 2012 | Filed under: Islam
Tweet This one ran yesterday at the PJ Tatler, and I forgot to republish it here. Since it’s a day late, I figure I can just block and copy the whole thing: I’m not a fan of extremely revealing or tight clothing. Even in my younger days, when I could get away with it, it [...]
Danny Lemieux on Dec 19 2011 | Filed under: Al Gore, Barack Obama, Capitalism, Climate change, Economics, Energy, Environmentalism, Government, Iraq, Islam, Israel, Leftist morality, Liberal blogs, Muslim violence
Tweet Here’s a Robert Samuelson article, “bye bye Keynes” that should give us all pause: the arguments he uses to write Keynes’ obituary are arguments that we all posited in our own excoriation of Keynes in years past, in response to a string of commentators, ranging from A to Z. I’ve been reviewing our last [...]
Bookworm on Dec 06 2011 | Filed under: Freedom, Islam
Tweet Was it a surprise to you that Egypt went Islamist? It wasn’t to me. Was it a surprise to you that Libya went Islamist? It wasn’t to me. Was it a surprise to you that Tunisia went Islamist? It wasn’t to me. Has it been a surprise to you over the last decade that [...]
Bookworm on Sep 15 2011 | Filed under: Immigration, Islam
Tweet For years, I’ve been trying to articulate the difference between good immigrants and bad immigrants, meaning those that benefit a country and those that I’d like to see kept out. This has become a particularly pointed concern for me in light of the PC attitude that encourages immigrants of all stripes not to give [...]
Bookworm on Aug 28 2011 | Filed under: Europe, Islam, Jihad
Tweet I noted when I was in London that the City was filled with obvious Muslims (by which I mean burqa-ed and hijab-ed women, and their male escorts). London, though, still felt like a modern western city. Not so other cities in Europe. Andrew McCarthy explains why, and warns us that the Obama administration is [...]
