Category: Islam

Misanthropic Muslims

There is nothing new about the misogyny that permeates fundamentalist Islam. I won't do a laundry list here of all the insults visited on women, both Muslim and non-Muslim, who live in or near fundamental Islamic communities. The other day, though, I was struck by how essentially misanthropic this form

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Reasons for optimism

I sometimes wonder if things in the Arab world were always so bad, and we just didn't know about them because a monolithic press wasn't interested.  I mean, an iman attacking a six year old can't be something new, but probably arises logically out of a culture of poverty and

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Alpha dogging the Afghanis

It's not just remembering past events that helps us to avoid repeating past mistakes, it's also recognizing the foibles and mental tics of past enemies. As always, since we're engaged in another fight against true totalitarianism, it's useful to remember the German experience from both WWI and WWII. Let's begin

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