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Friday, December 22, 2006
Sunday, December 17, 2006
The Islamist Tsunami...Part VII (Final)
This will be the last instalment in my mini-series. Not because the topic is exhausted, and not even because I am, which is not the case, but simply because I want to get on to other matters. Allow me to briefly sketch the outline of the argument I have advanced here, based on Mark Steyn’s book... Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
The Islamist Tsunami...Part VI
At the end of my previous post I made reference to a spreading vacuum in Europe, something that requires a few more preliminary remarks. Nature abhors a vacuum. [I have never actually seen that formulated as a 'law', as in Newton's 'law' of motion or Einstein's theories of relativity, but the second... Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, December 7, 2006
The Islamist Tsunami...Part V
This enterprise reminds me of a little incident some years ago, when a few friends and I were sitting around chatting. I had said something, and one of them said “ Naut [he didn’t actually say ‘Naut’, he called me by my by my real name, but you know what I mean] you should go into politics!” And... Sign in to see full entry.
Sunday, December 3, 2006
The Islamist Tsunami... Part IV
A few more words at the beginning of this part may be in order. What started out merely as an exposition of Mark Steyn’s book America Alone is turning into a slightly different enterprise. Because the issues Steyn deals with are those that have concerned me for some time as well, it is inevitable... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, December 1, 2006
The Islamist Tsunami...Part III
[So here we are, part III of my discussion of Mark Steyn’s Book America Alone, and the silence has been deafening. Maybe that speaks to the insularity of North Americans, who cannot quite comprehend that events occurring in Europe will inevitably affect them, as they have in the past. Culturally,... Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, November 27, 2006
The Islamist Tsunami...Part II
[In this, the second part of the discussion of Mark Steyn’s book America Alone, I shall adopt the practice of putting my own remarks and comments in square brackets. Let me also add a comment about the heading of this post. As most people will know, the term tsunami is Japanese and literally means... Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
The Islamist Tsunami...Part I
A couple of weeks ago, Corbin Dallas wrote about a book called America Alone, written by Mark Steyn, a Toronto boy who now lives in New Hampshire. At the time of Corbin’s writing, I had that book on order. I had ordered it since I knew what it was about, and knew I had to have it. After Corbin had... Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, November 8, 2006
Muslim Learning...
Several weeks ago I was having a chat with a Muslim friend of mine. He is an architect, very well educated, and embarrassed by the emergence of the Islamo-fascist tendencies so evident in the Muslim world today. We rarely talk politics, but on that occasion, just after the Pope’s widely publicized... Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, October 28, 2006
News by CNN: How to Shoot a GI
A couple of nights ago I was relaxing and casually watching CNN; not one of my favourite activities, but we all have our moments of weakness. As it happens, Wolf Blitzer was interviewing Lynne Cheney. Apparently this was to be about her new children’s book but, predictably, it had turned to other,... Sign in to see full entry.