Archive for the 'Muslim violence' Category
Bookworm on May 13 2011 | Filed under: Free speech, Freedom, Islam, Multiculturalism, Muslim violence
Tweet Everyone should read this speech. Everyone. While the media swooned about Obama’s Cairo speech (in which he lauded veiling women and ignored thousands of years of Jewish ties to Israel), and Obama’s race speech (in which he insulted white people), and Obama’s recent immigration speech (in which he demonized people who fear the risks [...]
Bookworm on May 10 2011 | Filed under: Jihad, Multiculturalism, Muslim violence, Political correctness
Tweet This morning, my friend Kim Priestap sent a group of us an email telling about the Yemeni man arrested for trying to yank open the cockpit door while hollering the standard “Allahu Akbar!” Lee DeCovnik thinks we might have been seeing a dry run. The man apparently raced from one end of the plane [...]
Bookworm on May 05 2011 | Filed under: Muslim violence
Tweet I can’t play chess. I never learned how, nor have I ever wanted to learn how. I’m more of an analyst, than either a strategist or a tactician. But I do know one thing about chess: The word “checkmate” comes from the Persian phrase “shah mat,” which translates as “the king is dead.” Kill [...]
Bookworm on Apr 21 2011 | Filed under: Muslim violence
Tweet Since my some of my last posts were about principles and morality, and the way in which they advance and support civilized, wealthy cultures, it seemed appropriate to wrap up that series with Andrew Klavan’s video explaining how to abandon those principles when necessary (or when elected to Congress, whichever comes first): Also, one [...]
Bookworm on Apr 13 2011 | Filed under: Islam, Muslim violence
Tweet I have been reading and enjoying Leslie Carroll’s Royal Pains: A Rogues’ Gallery of Brats, Brutes, and Bad Seeds. Focusing on Eastern and Western Europe from the 12th century onwards, it’s a brisk walk through royal excesses. Having read about half the book now, I think that “bad seeds” is the operative phrase in [...]
Bookworm on Apr 05 2011 | Filed under: Free speech, Muslim violence, Watcher of Weasels
Tweet I agree completely with Michael, who blogs at Political Commentator and is a Watcher’s Council member: He’s a very solid speaker, sounding more controlled and stable than the gal interviewing him.
Bookworm on Apr 05 2011 | Filed under: Constitution, Free speech, Islam, Muslim violence
Tweet If you’re old enough to have lived through the 1970s, you recognize my post title: Gilda Radner’s famous character Roseanne Roseannadanna would let loose with a foolish tirade, and then wrap it up by saying “It’s always something — if it ain’t one thing, it’s another.” Someone needs to resurrect that character, or at [...]
Bookworm on Apr 04 2011 | Filed under: Islam, Leftist morality, Muslim violence
Tweet Last week, a story broke that received surprisingly little attention from the MSM: a 14 year old Bangladeshi girl, after first being raped, was then accused of adultery and beaten to death. I say “surprisingly” because, since the women’s lib era, the dominant trope on the Left when it comes to rape is “never [...]
Bookworm on Mar 24 2011 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Arabs, Barack Obama, Islam, Media matters, Muslim violence
Tweet Actually, it’s not a new face at all — it goes back to Mohammed himself, and his paranoid, resentful rants when the Jews refused to accept him as a prophet. What makes it new is that, thanks to the modern age and the Leftist media, these messages, which used to be confined to backward [...]
Bookworm on Mar 13 2011 | Filed under: Israel, Leftist morality, Media matters, Muslim violence, Palestinians
Tweet If there is one defining characteristic of liberals, it is their sense that they are better than everyone else. Nowhere was that more explicitly illustrated than in Ron Schiller’s comments: In my personal opinion, liberals today might be more educated, fair and balanced than conservatives. Schiller wasn’t unique, just unguarded. The whole point of [...]
Bookworm on Mar 08 2011 | Filed under: Media matters, Muslim violence
Tweet Today is the day for videos showing Progressives humiliating themselves in front of the American people. Ron Schiller didn’t know he was on television, but Cenk Uygur, an MSNBC talking head, did — although he didn’t let that national audience stop him from making a bigoted fool of himself. The subject was Rep. Pete [...]
Bookworm on Mar 02 2011 | Filed under: Islam, Jihad, Military, Muslim violence
Tweet My condolences to the family and friends of the two airmen killed in Germany. And my best wishes for a safe and speedy recovery for the two airmen who are seriously wounded. And a plague and a pox on the media which tries so desperately to hide that this was not a random crazy [...]
Bookworm on Feb 19 2011 | Filed under: Media matters, Muslim violence
Tweet If you read only one thing today, read this Caroline Glick article about the media’s Middle East coverage.
Bookworm on Feb 18 2011 | Filed under: Islam, Muslim violence
Tweet I’m reading a thriller written in 1987. The bad guys are Soviet spies. They’re really bad. That was par for the course with Cold War thrillers. H0w many thrillers can you name now that have radical Islamists as the bad guys? I know there are a handful, but usually the bad guys are either [...]
Bookworm on Feb 17 2011 | Filed under: Muslim violence
Tweet One of the front line fighters in the war against the radical Islam is the Jawa Report. One of the ways in which the bloggers there are able to keep the information flowing is to hide their identities from the jihadists who have a pattern and practice of beheading those with whom they disagree. [...]
Bookworm on Feb 16 2011 | Filed under: Islam, Muslim violence, Women
Tweet Your matched set for today: Andy McCarthy writes about the elephant in the liberal living room; namely, Islamic attitudes towards rape: Women are almost always asking for it, especially Western women, and, once having forced an innocent man to give in to his base animal nature, they deserve to be beaten, arguably to death. [...]
Bookworm on Feb 15 2011 | Filed under: Islam, Muslim violence
Tweet Robert Avrech, at Seraphic Secret, nails the dirty secret underlying all the “democracy” revolutions in the Muslim world. They’re not about individual freedom. They’re about Jew hatred. I saw another link that made precisely the same point and, as soon as (or, rather, if) I track it down, I’ll update this post.
Bookworm on Feb 14 2011 | Filed under: Christians, Military, Muslim violence
Tweet I keep getting called away by real life, so let me quickly apprise you of two posts I think you’d enjoy. The first is at Wolf Howling. WH is inaugurating a series examining 15 battles that were turning points in history. His first post is about the Battle of Chipyong-ni, Feb. 13-15, 1951. If [...]
Bookworm on Feb 02 2011 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Egypt, Islam, Jihad, Muslim violence
Tweet When I read that the Obama administration is good with having the Muslim Brotherhood on board in Egypt, because it’s really not such a bad organization, I keep thinking of 1930′s rationalizations about Mussolini: He made the trains run on time. Surely our standards of decency are higher than that? Uh, no. I guess [...]
Bookworm on Jan 29 2011 | Filed under: Europe, Free speech, Islam, Jihad, Muslim violence
Tweet The Enlightenment was born in Europe and, clearly, will die there too: Hat tip: Small Dead Animals
Bookworm on Jan 27 2011 | Filed under: Muslim violence
Tweet Assuming that this is the 1848 of the Middle East, with Tunisia having lit the spark that causes revolution throughout Muslim countries, do you believe that (a) the revolutions will result in greater freedom in the Middle East or (b) the revolutions will advance the rise of even more radical, oppressive Islam controlling countries [...]
Bookworm on Jan 14 2011 | Filed under: Muslim violence
Tweet Ed Morrissey writes about yet another homegrown jihadist, this one in Pennsylvania. The only thing that distinguishes this story about a man who wants to use his Islamic faith as a reason to commit mass murder is the defense his family is mounting: the 21-year old has Asperger’s, they say. I know a lot [...]
Bookworm on Jan 07 2011 | Filed under: Britain, England, Islam, Muslim violence, Sex
Tweet Thirty years ago, I went to England through my university’s junior year abroad program. Although I had visions of walking across Cambridge’s or Oxford’s sun-dappled lawns, I actually ended up in the north of England. My disappointment swiftly turned to pleasure when I discovered that the north of England was much more “English” than [...]
Bookworm on Dec 19 2010 | Filed under: Muslim violence, Palestinians
Tweet YouTube decided to shut down the Palestinian Media Watch (“PMW”) account, because it shows heinous and disgusting videos. The problem with YouTube’s decision is that PMW doesn’t create these heinous and disgusting videos. Instead, they are products of the Palestinian media, and PMW makes them available so that Americans can see their tax dollars [...]
Bookworm on Dec 16 2010 | Filed under: Muslim violence
Tweet I have long been under the impression, thanks to Fjordman, that Muslim men see Swedish women as rape-worthy (see this or this, for example). I wonder if that fact doesn’t explain some of the high rape numbers in Sweden, while Sweden’s political correctness and fear of offending Muslims could account, in part, for the [...]
