Karl Popper Featured Tolerating Popper Popper would find it very hard to believe that something so much worse than Nazism had been a plague upon the earth for more than a thousand years, and that, after the horrors against which he warned, we hold it as a virtue to tolerate Islam and to go easy on Muslims.
Jihad Shireen Abu Akleh and Grant Wahl: Another lesson that will not be learnt Israel has nothing to do with it. Muslims hate you because their religion obliges them to hate you. It is just a matter of the extent to which they may wish to defy, or can get away with defying, that obligation.
Iran Featured "ENOUGH!" "Israel has been saying that for years and so many distinguished speakers have said clearly from this stage, each in their own words, enough."
Ukraine Featured Onward pregnant soldiers If the IDF is deterred from bombing terrorists for fear of killing civilians, the terrorists are protected and they all declare victory. If the IDF bombs the terrorists, then “Women and children get caught up in the violence,” and the dead terrorists and civilians go straight to Heaven as "martyrs."
Totalitarianism Featured Christopher Hitchens’s “Axis of Evil” speech, Part 2: Iran The Iranian mullahs lost so many young people in the suicide waves that they sent against Iraq, the sending of gangs of school children and teenagers to clear minefields on the Iraqi border. There's not enough room in large parts of Iran to bury the number of people they killed.
Editorials Netanyahu gives substance to "Never again," again. The enemy is not only at the gates. It is in the hearts of Jews and it is in the Knesset. Thankfully, Benjamin Netanyahu knows this, and he is not a timid man. Those who will join him in his new government are not timid either. There is hope.
Polemics Featured Msreading Iran "Women Life Freedom" is not a feminist slogan and this is not a “women’s revolution.” The events unfolding in major parts of the Muslim world mean that after almost 200 years, the 1848 revolutions finally resume: the autonomous individual is far from dead, with a tip of the hat to George Orwell.
Polemics Featured "Islam is not a religion," Answer to Lloyd de Jongh - Part 5 Religion makes it possible for the "scholars" to pervert the lay Muslims' humanity to such an extent that they are willing to kill their own children, yet are ready to die for God. If that is not a religion, then I do not know what is.
Polemics Featured "Islam is not a religion," Answer to Lloyd de Jongh - Part 4 It might offend Lloyd de Jongh to learn that for Islam, his religion is not important enough to warrant "correcting" its errors.
Polemics Featured "Islam is not a religion," Answer to Lloyd de Jongh - Part 3 "You shouldn’t be in the totalitarianism business if you can't exploit a ready-made reservoir of credulity and servility that’s as big as that." —Christopher Hitchens.
Polemics Featured "Islam is not a religion," Answer to Lloyd de Jongh - Part 2 There can be nothing more tedious than listening to believers in the throes of disagreement. Readers interested in this kind of discourse would do better listening to Mohamed Hijab or Zakir Naik. At least they'll be entertained.
Polemics Featured "Islam is not a religion," Answer to Lloyd de Jongh - Part 1 "Allah Most High prohibited the people to go out altogether in military expeditions and jihad, and ordered a segment of them to engage solely in becoming knowledgeable in the religion of Allah."
Dissidents/Ex-Muslims Featured Yom Kippur and my escape from Islam I apostatised because of Muslims as people. Everything I know today about the horrific set of ideas we call Islam and, indeed, how Islam turns Muslims into the people I ran away from, I have learnt since leaving Islam. Through leaving Islam, I began to see Islam.
Jihad Featured Mohamed Hijab: a dictator’s moment of conception A white female reporter publicly rejecting him to his face when he demanded to be interviewed, together with Muslims chasing him away within the hour, could well have constituted the moment Mohamed Hijab was set on the road to dictatorship.
In Memorium Gershon Weiss, the man who mastered time It is with sorrow that I share tidings of the passing away of Gershon Simcha Weiss on 1 September 2022. The Shofar shall sound by the life of his breath no more. Rest in Peace, dear friend.
Dissidents/Ex-Muslims "Take your Islam and go!" This is much more powerful than the already powerful "Death to the dictator!" Of course, it also implies death to dictatorship, yet nothing can be more direct and unequivocal than "Take your Islam and go!" It is not our Islam, we don't want it, and we don't want those who want it! GO!
Robert Spencer Austria: Mosque found to be hub for jihad terrorist recruitment A mosque is not a place of worship. It is a recruitment and operations centre. A madrassa is not a school. It is an indoctrination centre. We have to start from what things are, not from what we imagine, or would like, them to be.
Fascism Featured “Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the Earth.” Violence is the fuel of fascism. Mussolini’s gangsters, the Combat Squad, affectionately called the Black Shirts, recruited from the violent nether layers of Italian society, similar to the Ansar (helpers), who got Islam off the ground by exactly the same means.
Jihad Featured Anatomy of a madness, Part 4 I read The Satanic Verses in the winter of 1996-97, unemployed and frozen, and again in the winter of 2014-15, Charlie Hebdo on TV 24/7. The third time was in that magical realist summer of 2020, with a fresh-ish MFA to my name, to study the work as art. 12 August 2022: the author survived.
Jihad Featured Anatomy of a madness, Part 3 I read The Satanic Verses in the winter of 1996-97, unemployed and frozen, and again in the winter of 2014-15, Charlie Hebdo on TV 24/7. The third time was in that magical realist summer of 2020, with a fresh-ish MFA to my name, to study the work as art. 12 August 2022: the author survived.
Jihad Featured Anatomy of a madness, Part 2 I read The Satanic Verses in the winter of 1996-97, unemployed and frozen, and again in the winter of 2014-15, Charlie Hebdo on TV 24/7. The third time was in that magical realist summer of 2020, with a fresh-ish MFA to my name, to study the work as art. 12 August 2022: the author survived.
Jihad Featured Anatomy of a madness, Part 1 I read The Satanic Verses in the winter of 1996-97, unemployed and frozen, and again in the winter of 2014-15, Charlie Hebdo on TV 24/7. The third time was in that magical realist summer of 2020, with a fresh-ish MFA to my name, to study the work as art. 12 August 2022: the author survived.
Jihad Featured "Will Nupur Sharma ever lead a normal life? Should moderate Muslims speak up?" - A commentary - Part 4 I hate to be borne out in such a horrible way, but this sorry state of affairs obtains only because too many people, in their self-righteous ignorance and arrogance, insist on making a distinction between so-called "radical" Muslims and "moderate" Muslims.
