Bookworm on Dec 20 2012 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Economics, Europe, Muslim violence
Tweet According to the much sneered at, and much feared, Mayan Apocalypse, tomorrow marks the end of the world. I’m inclined to believe this is true. I don’t, however, expect the earth to explode into a giant ball of cosmic dust or some plague rivaling the Black Death. What I do see, however, is change [...]
Bookworm on Oct 29 2012 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Egypt, Islam, Military, Muslim violence
Tweet I’m guessing that a majority of Americans (a slim majority, but still a majority) know that America entered WWII because the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. What few stop to consider is why we ended up fighting, not only the Japanese who had just bombed us, but the Germans as well, since they, after all, [...]
Bookworm on Sep 26 2011 | Filed under: Britain, England
Tweet A few stories from England’s Daily Mail, all showing that the country is not in the best of health. Each of these stories highlights, not the horrible things individuals can do, because those crimes transcend national boundaries, but the way in which England has rendered itself unable to react in any way to the [...]
Danny Lemieux on Apr 05 2011 | Filed under: Economics, Energy, Europe, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Israel, Jihad, Saudi Arabia, Self-reliance
Tweet Israel as the next Saudia Arabia? According to this article in the Wall Street Journal, Israel’s unusually large and high-quality shale oil reserves may yield as much oil as all of Saudi Arabia’s proven oil reserves. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703806304576242420737584278.html These discoveries are in addition to of Israel’s recently diclosed gas reserves, also anticipated to [...]
Bookworm on Feb 05 2011 | Filed under: Islam, Jihad, Multiculturalism
Tweet 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 [...]
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 Oct 30 2010 | Filed under: Islam, Jihad, Leftist morality, Media matters
Tweet My husband has, for years, castigated me for refusing to listening to Cat Stevens’ music. He makes two points, the first of which is valid, the second of which is not. First, he says, the music predates Stevens’ conversion. If I hear it on the radio, Stevens isn’t getting any royalties anyway, so there’s [...]
Bookworm on Jun 02 2010 | Filed under: Jihad
Tweet 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 03 2010 | Filed under: Free speech
Tweet 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 [...]
Bookworm on Nov 14 2009 | Filed under: Islam, Jihad, Military, Multiculturalism, Muslim violence
Tweet In a field rich with excellent conservative writers, I always think Mark Steyn is the best. The joyful days, though, are the days when he outdoes even himself. In this week’s column about the fluffy multiculturalism that reared its head both before and after Hasan’s deadly terrorist attack at Fort Hood, Steyn outdoes himself. [...]
Bookworm on Nov 09 2009 | Filed under: Islam, Jihad, Media matters, Muslim violence
Tweet I don’t think the media has ever before been so blatant in its desire to divorce an evil act from its ideological origins, but this isn’t the first time we’ve seen that game played out. More than two years ago, a short lived comedy show on Fox used the occasion of an abortive bombing [...]
Bookworm on Nov 09 2009 | Filed under: Jihad, Military, Muslim violence
Tweet An eyewitness heard those words — Allahu Akbar — come out of the killer’s mouth. Private Joe Foster, though, is still ready to do his job, as he did at the time of the shooting, and that despite a bullet strike on his femur. UPDATE: You must — MUST — check out Mudville Gazette [...]
Bookworm on Nov 09 2009 | Filed under: Islam, Jihad, Media matters, Muslim violence
Tweet My liberal friend is a headline reader. That’s why we had a ridiculous conversation in which he wondered about the Fort Hood shooter’s motives. To the reader who scans, headlines that say “motives a mystery” trump even those articles that add, under the headline, little facts such as Muslim death cries (“Allahu Akbar!”), radical [...]
Bookworm on Nov 07 2009 | Filed under: Islam, Jihad, Multiculturalism, Muslim violence, Political correctness
Tweet Insane people reflect the obsessions of their times. In the old days, insane people heard messages from the Devil. In the post-nuclear age, they were in contact with Martians. And nowadays, if their Muslim, Islam gives the impetus to their urges. Indeed, Islam is an all-purpose blank check for bad behavior. As my cousin, [...]
Bookworm on Jul 30 2009 | Filed under: Europe, Islam, Muslim violence
Tweet I want to recommend two interesting things to read as a prelude to my core post. The first read comes from a reliably good source: Rusty Shackleford. Over at The Jawa Report, he looks at the banality that exists side by side with the evil that is North Carolina’s recently arrested home grown jihadists. [...]
Bookworm on Dec 01 2008 | Filed under: Islam, Jihad, Muslim violence
Tweet It’s no surprise that I’m not the only one thinking about the nature of the war waging around us. Mark Steyn is thinking about it too, but he’s added the other layer to the problem, which is the West’s willful refusal to acknowledge the enemy. Thus, after briefly discussing the way the press, imitating [...]
Bookworm on Nov 29 2008 | Filed under: Islam, Jihad, Muslim violence
Tweet (It will give you a sense of just how busy my weekend was that it took me two days to do this one post!) A very popular bumper sticker in Marin since 2003 is one that has the phrase “Endless War” in blue type, with the “less” then crossed out with a red line, [...]
Bookworm on Jun 06 2008 | Filed under: Britain, Bureaucracy, England, Jihad
Tweet I can’t add anything to this that you haven’t already thought of yourselves: A solicitor who specialises in representing terror suspects and tells them not to cooperate with police was paid almost £1 million in legal aid last year. Muddassar Arani’s firm represented Abu Hamza, dirty bomb plotter Dhirin Barot and three of the [...]
Bookworm on May 29 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Iran, Iraq, Jihad, John McCain, Judges, Judicial activism
Tweet I’ve been finding very disturbing the intense hostility that conservatives direct against John McCain. So much so that I wrote a very long rant on the subject, which American Thinker was kind enough to publish and which I reprint below: Perhaps because I’m a neocon, and not a dyed-in-the-wool, native-born conservative, I look at [...]
Bookworm on May 20 2008 | Filed under: Islam, Jihad, Muslim violence
Tweet At this particular moment — 4:47 p.m., PST — the counter in my sidebar from The Religion of Peace records that terrorists acting in Islam’s name have committed precisely 11111 acts of terror since 9/11. That’s quite a number, both in terms of that string of ones, and in terms of what all those [...]
Bookworm on Apr 26 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Tweet 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 15 2008 | Filed under: Islam, Jihad, Muslim violence
Tweet 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 [...]
Bookworm on Apr 13 2008 | Filed under: 9/11, Islam, Jihad, Muslim violence
Tweet 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 [...]
Bookworm on Apr 03 2008 | Filed under: Jihad, Muslim violence
Tweet I will never again complain about having to throw away my unfinished drink before going through airport security: A gang of alleged British Muslim fanatics plotted to cause “carnage on an almost unprecedented scale” with simultaneous suicide bombings on up to 18 transatlantic airliners, a court has heard. Bombs made from hydrogen peroxide liquid [...]
Bookworm on Mar 18 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Muslim violence
Tweet Perhaps because he’s not anchored to a presidential campaign he rightly describes as “insane,” Newt Gringrich speaks honestly and frighteningly about the problems that face the Western world today and the ostrich-like behavior that characterizes our leaders. It’s only five minutes and I think it is a must-watch. Hat tip: W”B”S
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