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Sunday, January 4, 2009

Life Against Death in the Middle East...

This was to be the next instalment of my mini-series, in which I intended to discuss the degree to which Islamist terrorists depend on what has been called the ‘nurturing community’. And I shall get to it in due course. But for the moment current events have overtaken me. I have a different sense of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, December 30, 2008

The Mumbai Attacks – Another Watershed Event...Part VIII

I always appreciate my readers’ comments, even if I no longer respond to each and every one of them, a practice I had drop for lack of time. But, as before, I shall pick the odd comment which either illuminates an issue particularly well, or else gives me the opportunity to do so on my own. That is... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, December 29, 2008

The Mumbai Attacks – Another Watershed Event...Part VII

I meant to begin today’s installment by addressing a very pertinent comment by vogue. However, I shall leave it to the next one, and begin this one with an observation occasioned by the current events in the Middle East. I am appalled! Not by the Israeli response, long overdue, to the incessant... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, December 21, 2008

The Mumbai Attacks – Another Watershed Event...Part VI

These are posts, not chapters in a book. I am constantly reminded of this fact when I survey what I ought to be talking about, especially here, when we are speaking of very complex matters. And especially when I get comments from well-meaning people that show me how difficult it is for them to... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, December 18, 2008

The Mumbai Attacks – Another Watershed Event...Part V

As I have done before, I shall begin this part by quoting another comment, this one by ash pradhan, who is always thoughtful and articulate. I do so because it beautifully exemplifies a tendency of thought characteristic of contemporary post-modernism. "[I] humbly suggest that, at some point in the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, December 14, 2008

The Mumbai Attacks – Another Watershed Event...Part IV

I ended the previous part by stating what I refer to as a ‘massive fact’ – one which is beyond dispute – that only a minority of the world's 1.5 billion Muslims are engaged in acts of terrorism, namely those I prefer to call Islamists or Islamo-fascists. In this part, I need to state a few more... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, December 7, 2008

The Mumbai Attacks – Another Watershed Event...Part III

As is usually the case, this is turning into more than originally intended. Because of time constraints, I can only write this series in small 'bites' and ask my readers' forbearance. I would also ask that they withhold judgment until the end... I shall begin this part with two quotes from comments... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, December 2, 2008

The Mumbai Attacks – Another Watershed Event...Part II

Today, let us begin with a few preliminary remarks. Phobia, from the Greek, simply means fear. However, in conventional usage, the word has long since become associated with particular kinds of fear: those that are unwarranted and pathological. In fact, there is often a ‘disease model’ involved:... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, November 29, 2008

The Mumbai Attacks – Another Watershed Event...Part I

For some time now Islamist terror has been endemic in many parts of the world, particularly in India. But the scope of the Mumbai attacks is unprecedented and, I suspect, is merely the first of similar events to come. 9/11 represents the beginning of a new era: a time in which it became clear that... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, October 29, 2008

It’s Official – the PLO is at War with Israel...

In my recent observations on the situation in the Middle East, in my ‘Hamas’ Mickey and Israeli Child-killer’ series, found here, http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Nautikos/570612, I referred to the somewhat encouraging fact that at least the draft of the new Palestinian constitution no longer... Sign in to see full entry.

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