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Israel Featured

Israel Diaries #5

Yes, you see it, too: it’s a menorah! This hit me before I saw it referred to as such elsewhere. You can imagine where my head went with this: Hanukkah > Festival of Lights > Diwali > Hinduism > Saraswati > Knowledge of the self > reflexive/reciprocal > Hitpa’el!

Propaganda Featured

2022: The year the English language reclaimed "refugee"

The "refugee" mania that so gripped Europe since 2015, when organised international mass crime became a virtue to so many in the West, while the safeguarding of citizens and the protection of their society was deprecated, is no longer quite the madness that it was.

Editorials Featured

Finally, Israel gets an Israeli government

"Some of these people sitting here see the Temple Mount as the major issue of Israel. What will happen if they decide to go and visit the Temple mount?"

Islam Featured

Merry Christmas

Just one more year and one more science instrument that Muslims missed out on. Why? Because it is offensive to follow the ways of the kufaar, and to like what the kufaar like, and value what the kufaar value. Even Christmas is haram. That's right. Merry Christmas, my former fellow Muslims.

Totalitarianism Featured

And STILL they prattle on about a “women’s revolution” - Part 2

I point this out neither to absolve men, nor to tarnish women, but only to make the point that the woman-man divide obscures, rather than illuminates, the events in Iran. It obstructs, rather than facilitates, understanding.

Dhimmitude Featured

What does Daniel the Dhimmi Andrews know that ex-Muslims don’t?

If you’ve been watching the changing fortunes of Islam over the last two to three decades, you’ll have become aware of the phenomenon of public apostasy from Islam. It started as isolated cases here and there of Muslims publicly declaring their rejection of Islam. But it grew so

Totalitarianism Featured

And STILL they prattle on about a “women’s revolution” - Part 1

If it were up to women like this, there would never be a revolution in Iran. It is unclear why anyone would be interested in what Banafsheh Zand has to say on the events in Iran, other than that she’s a feminist.

Hanukkah Sameach

Hanukkah Sameach to all my Jewish and Israeli friends, colleagues and readers!

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.

Shanah Tovah!

TO ALL MY JEWISH AND ISRAELI FRIENDS, COLLEAGUES AND READERS!

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!