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The other day I was scrolling along through my Google Reader and came across this from Charles Krauthammer in the Fox All Stars panel. And was mildly annoyed. So I wasn’t surprised to see Mark Steyn come along and:

Wilders does not need to be lectured condescendingly about distinctions within Islam, because he lives [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Der Spiegel – Christianity’s Modern-Day Martyrs

The rise of Islamic extremism is putting increasing pressure on Christians in Muslim countries, who are the victims of murder, violence and discrimination. Christians are now considered the most persecuted religious group around the world. Paradoxically, their greatest hope could come from moderate political Islam. By SPIEGEL staff.

One [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Macleans – The absurd trial of Geert Wilders, by Mark Steyn

Point A:

Geert Wilders, by contrast, is one of the most popular politicians in the Netherlands, and his fate is central to the future of his kingdom and his continent. He is an elected member of parliament—and, although he’s invariably labelled “far right” in [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Mark Steyn – THE SEDUCTIONS OF DECLINE

I don’t even know where to begin quoting this (RC2, who is probably better at hiding her straight razors than I, quoted it fairly extensively – and thoughtfully! – here, and as testament to the resilience of her state of mind, she manages to wade through a similarly-themed VDH [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

I love this. Mark Steyn is proven right:

[T]he imams have spoken: Saying that body scanners violate Islamic law, Muslim-American groups are supporting a “fatwa” – a religious ruling – that forbids Muslims from going through the scanners at airports. [...]

Categories: War and Peace

The Australian – Menace in mad march of the thought police, by Janet Albrechtsen

THE dark spectre of illiberalism is slowly poisoning Western liberal democracies. You won’t hear about it from much of the left-liberal press. It is part of the problem and its silence only confirms that basic liberties integral to Western liberal [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Touchstone – Byzantium Yet Fallen The Critical Lessons for Christians in the Long Shadow of 1453, by Paul J. Cella

Round about five and a half centuries ago, the Roman Empire was at last extinguished. By then the Empire was, of course, Greek, not Roman; Christian, not pagan; and no longer strong, but pitifully weak. [...]

Categories: History

This is amazing:

University of Cairo, class of 1959, and the class of 2004 (spot the difference!):

Class of 1959.Class of 2004.

Click to enlarge. Curtsy: Pajamas Media via Mark Steyn in The Corner who repeats this little anecdote I’ve tried finding before (so here it is again for ye olde external memory drive):

The other [...]

Categories: History

The Corner – Mark Steyn: The Islamization of the World

Metronieuws has an interview with Afshin Ellian, a witness for the defense in the Geert Wilders trial in Amsterdam. If you don’t read Dutch, there’s an English translation here. (I’ve modified it slightly, because I think he missed a nuance here and there.) Here’s [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Step one: Don’t ERASE THE ANTIQUITIES AND HERITAGE.

NRO – The War Against the Infidels Terrorism is only one of the weapons. By Clifford D. May

In 2001, the monumental 6th-century buddhas of Bamiyan were dynamited on orders from Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar. The United States and other Western governments issued protests. Afghanistan’s Islamist rulers [...]

Categories: History

Now, nobody get mad at me, but this is funny:

No, Moslems don’t believe that Jesus was the messiah. Think of it like a movie. The Torah is the first one, and the New Testament is the sequel. Then the Qu’ran comes out, and it retcons the last one like it [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

The Sunday Times – Panic room saved artist Kurt Westergaard from Islamist assassin

An axe-wielding Somali extremist broke into the home of Kurt Westergaard on Friday night as the 75-year-old cartoonist was looking after Stephanie, his five-year-old granddaughter. Westergaard, whose little ink drawing of Muhammad with a bomb in his turban [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

NRO – Mark Steyn: The Joke’s on Us The Pantybomber wasn’t the big joke. We are.

On Christmas Day, a gentleman from Nigeria succeeded (effortlessly) in boarding a flight to Detroit with a bomb in his underwear. Pretty funny, huh? But the Pantybomber wasn’t the big joke. The real laugh was the [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

New Years Resolution #3 (I have others): Clear out my stupid Google Reader! rolls up sleeves

National Post – David Frum: U.S. looks for bombs instead of terrorists

The real culprit in the underwear bombing? It’s the U.S. embassy in Lagos, argues Thomas Lipscomb. According to the Department [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

So the Swiss have voted to ban minarets (incidentally, an interesting article here on how the vote was being led by Swiss women:

“If we give them a minaret, they’ll have us all wearing burqas,” said Julia Werner, a local housewife. “Before you know it, we’ll have sharia law and women being stoned to [...]

Categories: People and Current Events