Bookworm on Jun 24 2008 | Filed under: Arabs, Islam, Israel, Muslim violence, Uncategorized
David Suissa has created a series of ads to remind people of all the marvelous contributions Israel has made to the world during its short time as a country (and, impressively, a country perpetually under siege).
I think it’s time to create some ads for the Muslim and Arab world too (click on thumbnails to enlarge):
Hat [...]
Bookworm on Jun 20 2008 | Filed under: Europe, Islam
Charles Johnson of LGF periodically gets into spats with the people at Gates of Vienna because of their (possible?) ties to organizations that have the whiff of neo-Nazism about them. As for me, I don’t know where the truth lies in those arguments.
I do know that Europe in the 20th (and, apparently, in the 21st) [...]
Bookworm on Jun 08 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Britain, England, France, Health, Islam, John McCain, Medicine, Muslim violence
Britain’s Telegraph has three interesting articles, and the London Times one:
Read about the vast difference between Britain’s and France’s socialized medicine. I’d certainly like to know what accounts for the difference before I start making changes to the American system. Color me skeptical, but I bet Obama, who shows himself to be remarkably [...]
Bookworm on May 28 2008 | Filed under: Britain, Christians, England, Islam, Jews, Religion
It’s been a long time since I’ve read anything this sad. It comes from the Church of England’s own newspaper:
If recent reports of trends in religious observance prove to be correct, then in some 30 years the mosque will be able to claim that, religiously speaking, the UK is an Islamic nation, and therefore [...]
Bookworm on May 11 2008 | Filed under: Arabs, Barack Obama, Feminism, Iraq, Islam, Muslim violence
The British press was rocked for a few minutes a couple of weeks ago by the story of an Iraqi girl whose father murdered her quite brutally because she’d fallen in love with a British soldier. (There was no hint, by the way, that she’d done anything about the love; it was an infatuation [...]
Bookworm on Apr 27 2008 | Filed under: Arabs, Islam, Muslim violence, Women
Honest to God, I really do wonder sometimes if the garden-variety fusion betwen Islamic and Arabic culture is salvageable:
A teenage Iraqi girl who fell in love with a British soldier when he was in Basra was murdered by her father in an “honour killing”, it was revealed today.
Rand Abdel-Qader, 17, was suffocated and then hacked [...]
Bookworm on Apr 26 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
I already knew that UC Berkeley was going to host a “scholarly” conference aimed at reconstructing Islamophobia. The promotional material, complete with the names of radical Islamist speakers, made it pretty clear that the conference’s focus would be on whitewashing Islam, as opposed to addressing a canker in one of the world’s major religions. [...]
Bookworm on Apr 21 2008 | Filed under: Islam, Muslim violence
In an earlier post, I pointed out that, with Islam, as well all special interest groups, you don’t need a majority to make a difference. You just need a critical mass, with the remainder of the special interest group being passive. It helps, too, if the larger majority (the ones who aren’t part of the [...]
Bookworm on Apr 15 2008 | Filed under: Islam, Jihad, Muslim violence
Andrew C. McCarthy, author of the newly published Willful Blindness: Memoir of the Jihad, sat down for an interview at NRO, and voiced some unpleasant truths about our suicidal sensibilities:
Lopez: What’s the most devastating lesson from 15 years ago we still haven’t learned?
McCarthy: That the primary cause of Islamic terrorism is Muslim doctrine, and [...]
Bookworm on Apr 13 2008 | Filed under: 9/11, Islam, Jihad, Muslim violence
One of the things about conspiracy theorists is that they live in a hazy world of innuendo and speculation. There’s never any hard evidence to support their theory, just a lot of disparate facts that can be spun together into a tangled and usually nonsensical tapestry. As often as not, the beauty of the theories [...]
Bookworm on Apr 01 2008 | Filed under: Britain, Education, England, GBLT, Political correctness
In the world of presidential elections, we’re watching the fascinating spectacle of clashing identity politics. Neither Hillary nor Obama has a strong resume (or even a medium resume). Each is distinguished from the other, and from others in the field (remember Silky Pony?) solely because of gender or race. He’s black (sort of); she’s female [...]
Bookworm on Mar 31 2008 | Filed under: Free speech, Islam, Muslim violence
Do you recall that, on the day I posted the Fitna video, I wrote the following?
LiveLeak explains why it is showing this video, despite the fact that some at LiveLeak strongly disagree with its content. I note two things. First, LiveLeak understands free speech. Second, the LifeLeak discussion about its decision to show the video [...]
Bookworm on Mar 27 2008 | Filed under: Free speech, Islam, Muslim violence
Geert Wilders’ 15 minute film about Islam is available now. While the Dutch government is afraid to show it, bloggers are not.
Those who are anti-American, those who hate Israel, those who are completely invested in multiculturalism, try to downplay the conservatives’ concern about Muslim violence by analogizing conservatives to the Nazis, who scapegoated the [...]
Bookworm on Mar 25 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Christians, Islam
I read two articles today that dovetail beautifully, by showing words spewing meaninglessly into the ether and by showing words used bravely to make big changes.
As for the meaningless spew into the ether that is, of course, Barack Obama, he of the sonorous (or, to my mind, soporific) voice, the big, meaningless ideas, and the [...]
Bookworm on Mar 24 2008 | Filed under: Europe, Holland, Islam, Muslim violence
As I’m sure you’ve heard, Geert Wilders, the Dutch politician has made a 15 minute long film that demonstrates how violent Islam is. He describes it as a film made with a split screen that has, on one side, passages from the Koran and, on the other side, modern footage of Islamists putting those passages [...]
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 13 2008 | Filed under: Islam, United Nations
I blogged here about the group that presented a report to the UN to point out what many of us have already realized: Muslims are using declarations of human rights as a way to shut down all religions and speech but theirs.
Patrick, my favorite Paragraph Farmer, took that dry report and drew the obvious [...]
Bookworm on Mar 12 2008 | Filed under: Free speech, Islam, United Nations
Okay, maybe the UN will listen to the report from the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) but, somehow, I doubt it:
Islamic states are bidding to use the United Nations to limit freedom of expression and belief around the world, the global humanist body IHEU told the U.N.’s Human Rights Council on Wednesday.
In a statement [...]
Bookworm on Mar 10 2008 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Britain, England, Islam, Muslim violence
It wasn’t bad enough that Scotland Yard was probably infiltrated by anti-government Islamist working for the Jihad. That’s carelessness, although probably inexcusable carelessness. Nope. What’s really disgusting is that Britain has announced to the world that an Israeli politician is banned from entering England because he criticized England, while a radical Hezbollah [...]
Bookworm on Mar 05 2008 | Filed under: Islam
A year or two ago, the press reported on a rather charming religion called the Sky Kingdom cult that had popped up in Malaysia. The worshippers had built a Disney-esque little temple that centered on a giant teapot that symbolized the beneficence of love and the purity of water pouring from heaven. As [...]
Bookworm on Mar 04 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
I’ve got a project, and pretty much exhausted myself writing this morning’s post (too much thinking, dammit!), so I’ll just give you links to some stories that caught my eye today.
1. John Hawkin’s writes about five top conservative female bloggers and discusses how they face different challenges from their male peers (not that they’re whining, [...]
Bookworm on Feb 28 2008 | Filed under: Britain, England, Islam
You recall the uproar a few weeks ago when the Archbishop of Canterbury said that it’s unfair for Muslims to have to follow British law and that it would be a good thing to incorporate elements of Sharia law into British law. It turns out that he’s not the only one thinking these thoughts. The [...]
Bookworm on Feb 13 2008 | Filed under: Britain, England, Islam, Law
Two excellent articles out of England about the folly behind the Archbishop’s idea:
Our British laws are there to protect Muslim women
What parallel sharia means in practice
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Bookworm on Feb 13 2008 | Filed under: Britain, England, Muslim violence
I would like to be upset with what the British judge did, but I think he’s right:
The country’s top judge has dealt a significant blow to a key plank of the Government’s anti-terrorism legislation after he overturned the convictions of five Muslim men jailed last year for downloading and sharing extremist terror-related material.
The Lord Chief [...]
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