Bookworm on Jan 06 2008 | Filed under: Britain, England, Islam, Muslim violence
British mosques are not simply preaching religious morals:
Almost half of Britain’s mosques are under the control of a hardline Islamic sect whose leading preacher loathes Western values and has called on Muslims to “shed blood” for Allah, an investigation by The Times has found.
Riyadh ul Haq, who supports armed jihad and preaches contempt for [...]
Bookworm on Dec 11 2007 | Filed under: Islam, Israel, Muslim violence
In my post about Jews’ love for Israel and America, I noted Michael Medved’s thought experiment, which was to imagine whether world attitudes towards America would change if Israel magically vanished, as well as his conclusion that nothing would change. Nevertheless, in the comments to that post — and perhaps inevitably given how widespread [...]
Bookworm on Nov 27 2007 | Filed under: France, Hillary Clinton, Immigration, Islam, Media matters, Mitt Romney, Muslim violence
I kid you not — the language I put in quotations in this post caption is the precise language the BBC uses to describe those who are engaged in a little bit of urban unrest In France. You know, the kind of innocuous urban rioting that results in more than 80 policeman being injured [...]
Bookworm on Nov 12 2007 | Filed under: GBLT, Iran, Islam, Muslim violence
I firmly believe that military force should be the last option in dealing with Iran. But I also believe that, whether we talk with the Iranians, enact embargoes against the Iranians, threaten the Iranians, or whatever else the heck we decide to do vis a vis the Iranians (including an Osirak or Syria approach), [...]
Bookworm on Nov 08 2007 | Filed under: Christians, Iraq, Islam, Uplifting stories
Americans like to talk about ecumenicalism, which is an idea that concerns itself with “establishing or promoting unity among churches or religions.” We in America have proven to be very good at it, so much so that we think nothing of little news stories about the rabbi giving a talk to his neighbor’s church, [...]
Bookworm on Oct 31 2007 | Filed under: Islam
I’ve posted repeatedly about the fact that one of the main things Islamists fear about the West is the fact that the West has decided not to subjugate its women. So much of Islamic energy is spent on women’s issues — only not in the way NOW defines them.
To NOW, women’s issues, at the extreme [...]
Bookworm on Oct 18 2007 | Filed under: Anti-Americanism, Arabs, Muslim violence
The familiar (way too familiar) trope on the Left is that the Bush doctrine is making everyone in the world hate us. That desire to be loved, and the fear of being hated, is a feelings based mentality, of course, that has nothing to do with justice, morality, right, honor, etc. My own view, as [...]
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 09 2007 | Filed under: Israel, Palestinians
A Palestinian human rights group is complaining about major abuses against Palestinian civilians. The malfeasors stand accused of
“extra-judicial and willful killings and shooting at combatants and civilians after capturing them;”
seizing people “in their homes” and dumping their bodies “in remote areas;”
executing “wounded persons during their evacuation to hospitals;”
pushing people “to their deaths from tall [...]
Bookworm on Oct 06 2007 | Filed under: Arabs, Israel
A few stories caught my eye regarding the Middle East:
The Palestinians say that they won’t negotiate with Israel until Israel agrees in advance to their demands. (That’s an interesting negotiating tactic and definitely one to try during my next Court-ordered settlement conference.)
Egypt has discovered a smuggling tunnel into Gaza, a squiblet that tells lots about [...]
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