Bookworm on Mar 16 2008 | Filed under: Holocaust, Leftist morality, Multiculturalism
A few days ago, I posted about the rise in antisemitism around the world. One of my readers, who I know is a good and kind woman, decried this trend, but then said something interesting: “And now many Jews insist that we hate Muslims to support them. [snip.] [E]very anti-Islamic [...]
Bookworm on Mar 16 2008 | Filed under: Islam, Law, Media matters, Multiculturalism, Muslim violence
From the every first paragraph of a lengthy New York Times Magazine article about Sharia law, you know you’re in for an intellectually dishonest voyage through the multi-culti mindset of the New York Times, this time as put forward by Noah Feldman who is, unsurprisingly, a law professor at that bastion of liberal think, Harvard. [...]
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 Feb 14 2008 | Filed under: Britain, England, Multiculturalism
I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for England. I adore British history, especially because I’ve always admired its trajectory towards true enlightenment. It had all the bad qualities of other European nations — serfs, Crusades, slavery, inhumane work conditions, etc. — but it always seemed to shake them off sooner [...]
Bookworm on Jan 15 2008 | Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama, Capitalism, Identity politics, Multiculturalism
I’m still enjoying every page of Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning, and I thought I’d share with you a few more points that I thought either summed up perfectly something most of us have already figured out or explained why [...]
Bookworm on Nov 30 2007 | Filed under: Britain, Islam, Multiculturalism, Muslim violence, Political correctness
I won’t go into the genesis of the teddy bear kerfuffle, because I assume you know all about it, including the fact that a Sudanese court imprisoned a British woman for 15 days for naming a teddy bear Muhammad, an insult that apparently has the prophet rolling in his grave.
The teacher claims, with corroboration, that [...]
Bookworm on Oct 31 2007 | Filed under: Education, Multiculturalism
Multiculturalism is one of those concepts that’s supposed to give all of us a nice, warm, fuzzy feeling. We’re all equal, we’re all wonderful. We’re no longer that icky old melting pot that forced minorities with exciting, dynamic cultures to subordinate themselves to a generic white America and become bland and meaningless. [...]
Bookworm on Oct 23 2007 | Filed under: Britain, Jihad, Multiculturalism, Muslim violence
I’m not saying this is the inevitable by-product of multiculturalism, but it’s very clear that, as to one Scottish young man, he failed completely to acquire a European/Scottish/British identity:
A British-born Muslim student has been jailed for eight years for a series of Islamist terrorism offences.
Mohammed Atif Siddique, 21, a shopkeeper’s son who has been described [...]
Bookworm on Oct 15 2007 | Filed under: Europe, Immigration, Multiculturalism
As you may recall, about 10 months ago, when I returned from a European vacation, one of the things I blogged about was Switzerland as part of a larger post I did about Europe’s changing face:
A train conversation with an unusually sweet lady in Switzerland resulted in my learning (correctly or not) that Switzerland, the [...]
Bookworm on Oct 03 2007 | Filed under: Abortion, Iraq, Islam, Jihad, Media matters, Multiculturalism, World War II
There’s a new movie out about “homegrown religious fundamentalists who kill in the name of God” — and Manolah Dargis, who writes movie reviews at The New York Times really wants to like it. You’ve got to admire Manolah. After all, who in America doesn’t want a solid documentary about the homegrown Western [...]
Bookworm on Sep 16 2007 | Filed under: 9/11, Anti-war, Multiculturalism
This is the beginning of yet another must-read Mark Steyn column:
This year I marked the anniversary of Sept. 11 by driving through Massachusetts. It wasn’t exactly planned that way, just the way things panned out. So, heading toward Boston, I tuned to Bay State radio talk-show colossus Howie Carr and heard him reading out portions [...]
Bookworm on Sep 02 2007 | Filed under: Media matters, Multiculturalism, Muslim violence
Twenty five newspapers refused to publish it, but you can see it here. It’s not one of Breathed’s best humor wise (not like some of his past cartoons), but it makes a bigger point and I say shame to the craven publishers who won’t run it.
Hat tip: Hot Air
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Bookworm on Aug 05 2007 | Filed under: Abortion, Anti-Semitism, Anti-war, Britain, Children, Elections, England, Europe, Israel, Judges, Judicial activism, Marriage, Media matters, Mitt Romney, Multiculturalism, Muslim violence, Presidential elections
I’m on another vacation, sitting in a cyber cafe, working at a small computer with a microscopic keyboard, so it must be random thoughts day. Thank goodness DQ is doing the heavy lifting.
The first thing that caught my interest is what Mitt said at the debate, which I really liked:
But it was Romney forced [...]
Bookworm on Jul 31 2007 | Filed under: Britain, Communism, Cuba, Education, Leftist morality, Multiculturalism, Political correctness
The Left (both at home and abroad) likes to revile the infamous American President “Chimpy-BusHitler,” but they seem to be taking a pass on some people that even the Left would have to concede have a bit more blood on their hands. Mike Adams and the American Thinker take on the results of that, [...]
Bookworm on Jul 31 2007 | Filed under: Islam, Multiculturalism
When my kids were at their old preschool, the school hired a very pleasant teaching assistant. At the end of a year, she suddenly showed up at school in a headscarf. The school was in a quandary. A lot of the parents, especially the mothers of the little girls, were very unhappy [...]
Bookworm on Apr 11 2007 | Filed under: African-Americans, Leftist morality, Liberal blogs, Multiculturalism
Long time readers may recognize the following, which is a recycled post from February 2005 (when I was still on Blogger). At the bottom, I’ll explain why I’m resurrecting it:
Remember from playground days how, when someone was picking on your little brother, you’d rush over to defend him, and announce to the perpetrators, “Only [...]
Bookworm on Dec 12 2006 | Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama, Multiculturalism
My personal feeling is that, while Obama may one day turn into a something, right now he’s pretty much a nothing: a very intelligent, but as yet untried man, with limited experience, and superficial views. What I’m gathering, though, is that on the Left, this very blankness is what makes him so appealing. [...]
Bookworm on Nov 30 2006 | Filed under: Education, Multiculturalism
My child came home yesterday with yet another spelling worksheet that contained a misspelling. But that’s not why I’m writing. She also came home with a math worksheet containing complicated problems she’d gotten wrong, and it was clear that the teacher had never bothered to enlighten her about the isues in that worksheet [...]
Bookworm on Nov 17 2006 | Filed under: Europe, Islam, Multiculturalism
I’ve known about it all day, and almost didn’t blog about it, since news gets stale so quickly. Nevertheless, it seemed almost morally wrong not to applaud the Dutch for their recent moment of spine: they’ve banned the burqa.
The Dutch government agreed on Friday a total ban on the wearing of burqas and [...]
Bookworm on Oct 24 2006 | Filed under: Islam, Multiculturalism, Religion
Over at American Thinker, you can read about Nyamko Sabuni, Sweden’s new Integration and Equality Minister. Contrary to the Orwellian overtones in that title, Ms. Sabuni, a Muslim, is vocally opposed to female circumcision and arranged marriages, among other things. The American Thinker squiblet takes Ms. Sabuni’s appointment as the opportunity to address [...]
Bookworm on Oct 19 2006 | Filed under: Britain, England, Europe, France, Immigration, Islam, Multiculturalism, Political correctness
As you know, there is a big debate going on in England right now about the veil. Those who support the veil are framing this support in terms of religious freedom. However, veils are not an integral part of the Muslim religion. Instead, they are a product of Arab culture. (Indeed, [...]
Bookworm on Oct 16 2006 | Filed under: Islam, Multiculturalism, Political correctness
We Americans are very respectful of other people’s cultures. The old “ugly American” of 1950s stereotypes died on college campuses in the 1960s, to be replaced by the multiculturalist, PC American who would never dream of challenging the way in which another culture conducts itself. The most recent example of our American deference is the [...]
Bookworm on Oct 11 2006 | Filed under: Europe, Israel, Media matters, Multiculturalism, Muslim violence
On its face, it looks like an article in the New York Times that points out something we have figured out already; namely, that the Europeans have been nursing a viper to their bosom:
Europe appears to be crossing an invisible line regarding its Muslim minorities: more people in the political mainstream are arguing that Islam [...]
Bookworm on Aug 15 2006 | Filed under: Britain, Islam, Multiculturalism
I haven’t blogged about multiculturalism in quite a while, so those new to this blog may not know that it is one of my pet peeves, an enormous, angry bee buzzing in my intellectual bonnet. I think it is the root cause of the disuniting of America, with its effort to Balkanize people under [...]
Bookworm on Jul 28 2006 | Filed under: Islam, Multiculturalism, Political correctness
Sometimes, you stumble across an expert who has such manifest expertise, it might be a grave mistake to ignore him. And sometimes, if you’re not the stumbling kind, you’re lucky enough to have someone tell you how to find information from that expert. Thanks to Kevin, I can tell you what a reformed [...]
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