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Category Archives: Islam
Why don’t the French bomb Belgium?
Rod Liddle writes: I am always open to spiritual guidance from any quarter, all the more so if that guidance is of practical import. So I was especially grateful to hear reports of a fatwa from the prominent Saudi Arabian … Continue reading
JTA: For Jewish groups, Syrian refugees are a reminder — not a threat
I don’t know a single Jew in my real life who wants more Muslims in America. I suspect most Jews in America and in the West don’t want more Muslims around. Yet Jewish elites through the major Jewish organizations keep … Continue reading
France: A Society Ripe for Submission
Quadrant: His imagining of an Islamic France is no simple provocation. Rather, this deep, gripping and haunting novel is a recent high-point for European fiction. No current writer gets anywhere near Houellebecq’s achievement in finding a fictional way into the … Continue reading
Douglas Murray: Of Two Minds About a Singular Peril
Many physical casualties are yet to come. But the next political casualties should be the entire political class who have refused for so long to face some very bitter truths of their own devising. After Paris, they can be no … Continue reading
Steve Sailer: Dept. of Not as Reassuring as the NYT Assumes
From Steve Sailer: Ever since the Paris Massacres, the establishment has mounted a campaign to convince Americans who follow the news that our memories of terrorist incidents are all wrong. One ploy is to emphasize a technical distinction between refugee … Continue reading
Why Do So Many Muslims Dye Their Beards Orange?
CNN: “Some Muslim men told Coppejans their decision was in reference to the Prophet Muhammad, who is believed to have dyed his hair as well. Some men had just returned from Hajj, the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca.” Comments to … Continue reading
Jewish Groups Push For More Islamic Immigration
Nathan Guttman writes for the Forward: Since the November 13 terrorist attacks in Paris by the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS, Republican presidential candidates, led by Donald Trump, have mainstreamed everything from proposals for registering Muslims nationwide to … Continue reading
The Jewish Journal Wants To Bring More Muslims To America
Danielle Berrin writes the Jewish Journal cover story: On Nov. 19, less than a week after the deadly series of terrorist attacks in Paris, Mark Hetfield, president and CEO of HIAS, the 134-year-old refugee resettlement organization, was summoned to the … Continue reading
Germany Cannot Reject Refugees
Here is a translation of a German news report: Germany cannot afford to reject refugees, says Josef Schuster, head of the Central Council of German Jews (Zentralrat der deutschen Juden). It (Germany) has brought “evil” upon others and is indebted … Continue reading
The ADL Wants To Restrict Your Speech, Import More Muslims
Perhaps the ADL has a point. Nothing helps curtail freedom quite like more Muslims. From the New Jersey Jewish News in 2010: Concerned that some recent incidents of bullying in cyberspace have taken on an anti-Semitic tone, the Anti-Defamation League … Continue reading