Bookworm on Jan 26 2008 | Filed under: Britain, Islam
From Mark Steyn:
My favorite headline of the year so far comes from The Daily Mail in Britain: “Government Renames Islamic Terrorism As ‘Anti-Islamic Activity’ To Woo Muslims.”
Her Majesty’s government is not alone in feeling it’s not always helpful to link Islam and the, ah, various unpleasantnesses with suicide bombers and whatnot. Even in his cowboy [...]
Bookworm on Jan 22 2008 | Filed under: Free speech, Holland, Islam, Muslim violence
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 being torn [...]
Bookworm on Jan 21 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
I’ve got a deadline, so I thought I’d just give you a few links to things that interested me this morning:
Rick Moran highlights Zimbabwe’s insane inflation, another horrible indictment of Mugabe, who took one of Africa’s most stable and prosperous nations and reduced it to abject poverty.
An Iraq War widow, trying to help others, was [...]
Bookworm on Jan 08 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Barack Obama, Democrats, Education, Health, Islam, Muslim violence, Vaccinations
The kids are back in school and I thought the house would fall silent and I would blog again. However, it turns out — and this is very flattering — that there were a lot of people who wanted to talk to me but felt they couldn’t while the kids were around. I’ve [...]
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 20 2007 | Filed under: Christians, Crime and punishment, Islam, Jews, Leftist morality
I did a post yesterday in which I quoted from an interview with Michael Cappi regarding the fact that Islam, unlike Judaism or Christianity, is not a religion that concerns itself with broader moral issues that rise above mere tribal law. I’d actually made precisely the same point in an earlier post, here. [...]
Bookworm on Dec 19 2007 | Filed under: Islam, Mormons
Michael Cappi, who got interested in Islam after being near Ground Zero on 9/11, has written what looks like a must-read book called A Never Ending War. Jamie Glazon interviews Cappi at Front Page Magazine, and Cappi has some very interesting things to say about the nature of Islam, the Koran, War and the [...]
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 Dec 03 2007 | Filed under: Christians, Islam, Jews, Muslim violence, Religion
The teddy bear scandal put Islam on the front pages again as a religion whose practitioners are so insecure that they cannot accept anything that they might perceive as critical or demeaning. As have most conservative bloggers, I’ve written periodically about Islam’s misogyny, its cultural insecurity, its intolerance, etc. I’ve quoted my cousin [...]
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 Nov 19 2007 | Filed under: Muslim violence
It’s a bizarre story, and a funny one, and a terrifyingly scary one if you read the last little threat thrown in at the end:
Here’s a little story from the Italian press that people may have missed. Apparently there are 7,000 Muslims in or around the city of Padova – Padua to English speakers – [...]
Bookworm on Nov 16 2007 | Filed under: Anti-war, Iraq
Next time someone tells you about the intractable Civil War in Iraq, you might take a moment to show them this photo. It’s by no means the factual clincher to an anti-War argument, but it is a wonderful insight in a society that hopes to mend itself, even as the anti-War crowd in America, [...]
Bookworm on Nov 15 2007 | Filed under: Islam, Muslim violence, Saudi Arabia, Women
For those of you still wondering about what life will be like in the resurgent Islamic 7th century, here’s a bit more information, this time out of Saudi Arabia:
A court in the ultra-conservative kingdom of Saudi Arabia is punishing a female victim of gang rape with 200 lashes and six months in jail, a newspaper [...]
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 01 2007 | Filed under: Islam
Read this and then read this. Where was it written that the ignorant shall rule the earth?
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 22 2007 | Filed under: Islam, Muslim violence, Women
A friend of mine who has, over the years, proven remarkably prescient in diagnosing global ills, told me after 9/11 that a significant element in Islam’s rage against the West has to do with women — Islam demands the total subjugation of women, and Islamists view the West as a profound threat to their control [...]
Bookworm on Oct 12 2007 | Filed under: Britain, Islam
I stumbled across a blog I hadn’t seen yet before, called Secularist Atheist Army. Strike that, I stumbled across three blogs,* all clearly the the same blogger, and all with the same message: Britain, stop killing yourself. Thus, the blogger, clearly writing out of Britain, has post after post after post detailing British dhimmitude. [...]
Bookworm on Oct 03 2007 | Filed under: Iran, Israel, Jihad, Media matters
The media is congratulating itself for “exposing” Ahmadinejad with its constant focus on it’s “we have no gays in Iran” statement. Ha, ha, ha! Isn’t the man an idiot! Look, America, he thinks there are no gays in Iran!
Ahmadinejad is right, of course, when it comes to Iran. But he’s not [...]
Bookworm on Sep 28 2007 | Filed under: Watcher of Weasels
The results are in at the Watcher’s Council and I have to admit to being pleased, since my post Cosmic Ironies came in first. This was the post in which I looked at my Dad’s family history in pre-WWII Germany and thought about the little twists of fate that saw some live, and some [...]
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