Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
The mosque debate in America has been instructive when it comes to Leftist rhetorical tactics. Ordinary Americans make an argument — “the mosque is inappropriate on secular sacred ground.” The Left then responds, not substantively, but with personal attacks — “you’re racist, Islamophobic, xenophobic and stupid.” If you think this
Continue readingMay I highly recommend Andrew Klavan on the Ground Zero Mosque controversy? UPDATE: And a related question is “does dhimmitude suck?” Think about it as you read Bruce Kesler’s post explaining why he disinherited his alma mater.
Continue readingCNN is running an opinion piece by Jocelyne Cesari, an Ivy League scholar, assuring Americans (you know, all those bigoted, Islamophobic, ignorant Americans) that Islam is a religion and has nothing to do with terrorism. What’s interesting is that the article doesn’t actually take a doctrinal approach to Islam, one
Continue readingIn America, being stoned is a good thing: it’s hip, it’s cool, it’s “real.” Being stoned in Islamic culture has a whole different meaning. I think it’s worth reading Phyllis Chesler on the subject just so that you can appreciate the true “otherness” of Islam. As Pat Condell said— and
Continue readingDo any of you disagree with anything Condell says? [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjS0Novt3X4[/youtube] 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.
Continue readingI was thinking of headlines to rival the one I saw this morning: Landmark vote opens door to Ground Zero mosque For true parallelism, you can’t have as the new occupier the same person or entity that caused the deaths at the site. Instead, you have to have the fellow-travelers,
Continue readingAndrew McCarthy writes compellingly about the problems — the big problems — we in America should have with the proposed Ground Zero mosque. What I like is his pithy summary of the reason Islam is different from all other religions, and this is primarily because, while it calls itself a
Continue readingYou all know the following, but do your friends? [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib9rofXQl6w[/youtube]
Continue readingOn July 14, the French parliament voted to ban the burqa in public places, causing much anguish amongst Muslims, Leftists, and even some conservatives, especially libertarians. Regardless of the political filter through which they viewed the new law, its detractors all claimed that a free society cannot ban clothes without
Continue readingThere’s still time to stop a mosque from being built at Ground Zero. People who pay attention to Islam understand that Islam always builds mosques at the site of military victories. This ad gets it. The media, some branches of which are refusing to run this ad, and the PC
Continue readingStand With Us is an extraordinarily important organization. I cannot emphasize that enough. Its goal is to counter the calumnies that an unholy union of Leftists and Islamists spread against Israel, especially on college campuses. The Stand With Us founders realized something that American Jews and other friends of Israel
Continue readingThe 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
Continue readingTo: American Citizens From: Your Government Date: Today It has come to our attention that citizens on your side of the aisle (“WN’s”, aka Wing Nuts) are doing a lot of talking. What in the world are you gabbing about? Talk Radio, talking amongst yourselves, chatting on the Internet.
Continue readingJustice Scalia states more eloquently than I ever could the difference between feelings and morality. [Sorry about this — while I was in the midst of editing a longer, pre-existing post, Comcast service died completely and deleted everything I’d written after the above sentence. Sigh. Nine hours later, Comcast is
Continue readingAtlas Shrugs, Pamela Geller’s website, is ordinarily a phenomenal place, and it’s “shame on me” that I don’t link to it more often. Today, however, there are two posts there that mandate links from all bloggers. The first because it’s a fascinating link and the second because it’s an important
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