Tag Archive 'Islam'
Bookworm on Feb 01 2012 | Filed under: Health
Because our government isn’t yet doing enough, or costing enough, or interfering sufficiently in our lives, three researchers at the University of California San Francisco now recommend that the government should regulate sugar, just as it does alcohol and tobacco: A new commentary published online in the Feb. 1 issue of Nature says sugar is just as [...]
Bookworm on Jan 28 2012 | Filed under: Hollywood, Islam
Liam Neeson’s flirting with converting to Islam, a religious quest made possible by the fact that the religion has great calls to prayer and everyone does it (at least in Muslim countries) — and, no, I’m not exaggerating when I belittle his expressed motive when he contemplates abandoning the Catholicism of his childhood in exchange [...]
Bookworm on Dec 28 2011 | Filed under: Muslim violence
Would anyone care to explain to Mr. Bookworm the difference between an extremist sect breaking its country’s laws by discriminating against women, and a country that has as an integral part of its law and culture murderous attacks on women, “witches,” children and gays? He professes to be bewildered.
Bookworm on Dec 28 2011 | Filed under: Uncategorized
This is an exercise in pure speculation. I invite all here to bring their own notions to the table. An old friend of mine visited me last Saturday to catch up on things. We walked my dog and began a long conversation that ended later in my backyard over coffee and tea. Bob is fascinated [...]
Bookworm on Dec 08 2011 | Filed under: Media matters
I didn’t bother to read the entirety of an endless article about a bad thing happening in Mexico. No, I’m not talking about drug cartels or about Mexican citizens being slaughtered by guns sent over courtesy of a Democrat Department of Justice attempting to prove that guns hurt people. I’m talking about plants that process [...]
Bookworm on Dec 03 2011 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism
Ignore the fact that the Qur’an is drenched in Jew hated. Ignore the fact that, since Islam came into being, it has alternately treated Jews as second class citizens or actively tried to slaughter them. If you can ignore those realities, you too can be an American ambassador in the Obama administration. You get bonus [...]
Bookworm on Nov 09 2011 | Filed under: Israel
Bruce Kesler spoke with Jonathan Spyer, who wrote Transforming Fire: The Rise of the Israel-Islamist Conflict. Despite the current upheaval in the Middle East, and its attendant rise in antisemitism (which is impressive, considering its previous high level), Spyer is sanguine, and even optimistic. Check out Bruce’s post and see what you think.
Bookworm on Sep 15 2011 | Filed under: Immigration, Islam
For years, I’ve been trying to articulate the difference between good immigrants and bad immigrants, meaning those that benefit a country and those that I’d like to see kept out. This has become a particularly pointed concern for me in light of the PC attitude that encourages immigrants of all stripes not to give their [...]
Bookworm on Apr 13 2011 | Filed under: Islam, Muslim violence
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 the [...]
Bookworm on Feb 05 2011 | Filed under: Islam, Jihad, Multiculturalism
One of the things the Leftist multiculturalists refuse to acknowledge is that Islam does not assimilate. Individual practitioners of the faith may, periodically and superficially, espouse the culture in which they live, but the fact remains that Islam, by its nature, is the Borg. Borg-like, the Islam collective’s motto is “Resistance is futile. You will [...]
Bookworm on Nov 01 2010 | Filed under: Christians, Crime and punishment, Immigration, Iraq, Islam, Muslim violence
I was very surprised to see an AP wire story reporting that Islamic militants (as opposed to mere “militants” or “insurgents”) were holding “Christians” (as opposed to mere “people”) hostage. Even more surprising, the AP reported that the Islamic militants were probably affiliated with Al Qaeda in Iraq, an entity one apparently couldn’t acknowledge during [...]
Danny Lemieux on Sep 20 2010 | Filed under: Europe, France
Bookworm recently asked, “is Europe trying to save itself?” To that question, I can only offer anecdotal evidence from family and business visits made to France and Belgium this summer, shortly after the Greece-precipitated financial crisis. Europe (witness the EU) is an uber-bureacracy. For centuries, Europe’s forms of governance have devolved into top-down, centralized governments [...]
Bookworm on Aug 24 2010 | Filed under: Islam
Do any of you disagree with anything Condell says? I was going to blog on the subject, which got hot while I was on vacation, but all I can do now is say “ditto” to Condell.
Bookworm on Jun 22 2010 | Filed under: Islam, Muslim violence
The Washington Post has a piece that ostensibly educates WaPo readers about the true nature of today’s terrorists. Interestingly (or do I mean typically) it tries to erase Islam from the equation: 3. Al-Qaeda is made up of religious zealots. To the contrary, rank-and-file terrorists who claim to be motivated by religious ideology often turn [...]
Bookworm on Jun 02 2010 | Filed under: Jihad
Thanks to a reader for bringing this video to my attention. It explains how Boston’s Islamic Cultural Center has deep jihadist ties — and how Massachusett’s governor Deval Patrick has allied himself with this organization:
Bookworm on May 20 2010 | Filed under: Free speech, Islam, Muslim violence, Religion
Sometimes, to their creator’s dismay, ideas take on a life of their own. In the wake of Comedy Central’s decision to censor a South Park episode that didn’t actually draw Mohamed, but merely suggested the possibility of doing so, Molly Norris came up with the idea of “everybody draw Mohamed Day.” Then, terrified by the [...]
Bookworm on May 10 2010 | Filed under: Islam, Muslim violence
If you read nothing else today, please read Fouad Ajami’s devastating indictment of the Islamic culture, a culture that encourages perpetual disaffection and anger with the world at large: ‘A Muslim has no nationality except his belief,” the intellectual godfather of the Islamists, Egyptian Sayyid Qutb, wrote decades ago. Qutb’s “children” are everywhere now; they [...]
Bookworm on May 03 2010 | Filed under: Free speech
In the early television era, one of the most innovative and imaginative shows around was Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone. Certain episodes were so compelling that they entered the popular imagination, and are familiar to anyone over 30. One of the most brilliant episodes, shown in 1961, was It’s a Good Life, based upon a [...]
Bookworm on Apr 26 2010 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Islam
If you’ve been paying any attention at all to today’s news, you’ve already heard about the fact that Obama’s National Security Advisor Gen. James Jones told a “joke” that is premised on two Jewish merchants taking advantage of a dangerously dehydrated Talibani: I’d like to begin with a story that I think is true, a [...]
Bookworm on Feb 28 2010 | Filed under: Afghanistan, Military
I meant to post this yesterday, but time got away from me: many, many, many congratulations to the Marines and their Afghan allies for the Marjah victory. I never doubted that they would win, but I certainly understood that each Marine and Afghan soldier faced the risk that he would make the ultimate sacrifice for [...]
Bookworm on Feb 13 2010 | Filed under: Islam
Winston Churchill wrote the following in a book published in 1899 about the Sudan. It is remarkably prophetic (emphasis mine): How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects [...]
Bookworm on Jan 21 2010 | Filed under: Islam, Muslim violence
The New York Times reports that, according to a Senate report, some American ex-prisoners who converted to Islam are heading to (or have already arrived in Yemen) to be part of terrorist forces against the U.S.: Some American former convicts who converted to Islam in prison have moved to Yemen and a few may have [...]
Bookworm on Jan 10 2010 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Islam
I’ve been harping for years now about the fact that Obama’s emotional connection isn’t to America, but to something else. I’ve thought it was to Leftism. Rabbi Spero makes the very good argument that Barack Hussein Obama’s emotional affiliation is to Islam. He doesn’t say that Obama is a religious Muslim. He just notes that [...]
Bookworm on Jan 08 2010 | Filed under: Islam, Women
One of the defining features of Islam is its obsession with sex. Every rule regarding women is based upon a driving need to control their sexuality. They are married off as children, sequestered, dressed in clothes that rob them of any hint of femininity, deprived of any opportunities to function outside the reproductive sphere, and [...]
Bookworm on Jan 05 2010 | Filed under: Islam, Political correctness
Michael Yon, Joan Rivers and a little boy clutching the Play-Doh his grandparents gave him. That looks like a peculiarly disparate list of people but, in fact, all three people are bound together by one thing: the TSA Department of Homeland Security. As you already know, on Monday, the TSA Customs detained and handcuffed Michael [...]
