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Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Let's have some fun…

I have some notes somewhere dealing with this whole thing we call ‘privacy’, which we take for granted but which is really a relatively new phenomenon in human history, and then only in the West. But that’s another topic… Today I just want to stress that generally I am not interested in people’s... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, June 2, 2014

One Case (the First One?) – Many More to Come…

You may or may not remember the recent murder of three Jews at a Jewish museum at Brussels on May 24. It hasn’t received much play in our mainstream media… At the time I noticed a certain reluctance to divulge details even on the part of the Europeans, but I knew they would come out sooner or later,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, June 1, 2014

A follow-up…

Some of you may recall that back in May I sent an email to a chap by the name of Saeed Ahmed, who’s some kind of commentator for CNN, and who had described the abduction of hundreds of Nigerian school girls as the result of Boko Haram’s ‘twisted ideology’. I wrote: Hi Saeed, I read your piece on... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, May 31, 2014

The ‘War on Terror’ cannot be won…Part III

Again, first a couple of responses to comments. TAPS asks: “Is the Center for Asymmetric Warfare (USN) having any positive effect at all?” Here’s my answer. Thanks for your question, TAPS. I mentioned this whole business of what I call nCW more or less in passing, because it really is in one sense a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, May 30, 2014

The ‘War on Terror’ cannot be won…Part II

To begin with, let me try and answer another question. As so often, it's one asked by TAPS, one of the few who have an abiding interest in what I have to say here. She writes: “Are there really people (world leaders, politicians, etc.) who think it can be won?” And here’s my answer: Thanks, TAPS –... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, May 29, 2014

The ‘War on Terror’ cannot be won…Part I

The following will be an attempt to deal with a question raised by Jimmy recently, and by others before him, which was – to paraphrase – ‘So what are we going to do about the Islamic disease?' I have no easy, pat answer to that question, though I may have the beginnings of an answer, which requires... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, May 28, 2014

The West’s failure in Afghanistan ‘delayed’?

There is one Western leader, Prime Minister Harper, who spoke wisely when he announced two years ago that no Canadian troops or ‘trainers’ [my quotation marks, not his] would remain in Afghanistan past 2014. There was considerable pressure brought to bear by the W. H. Amateur, but Mr. Harper refused... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, May 26, 2014

Just a glimpse of today’s Britain…

According to official statistics from 2013, Muslims now make up 5.2 percent of Britain ’s population of 63 million. Not all that much, is it… It's a little different when we look at the trend: from 2001 to 2011 the Muslim population rose from 1.5 million to 2.7 million, and by now has more than... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, May 23, 2014

Heard much of Gambia lately?

No? Not surprising – it’s just a small country, actually the smallest in Africa, located on the west coast along the Gambia River. For centuries it was an important trade center, where Muslim slave traders sold their wares destined for the trans-Atlantic slave trade… It’s a Muslim country, and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, May 22, 2014

An amazingly courageous woman…

Why is it so often a woman who shows more courage than many a swaggering man? The following is an example of that. It took place in Egypt, which still, even after the rout of the Morsi gang, is a very dangerous place for rational people… The event was an interview conducted on Egyptian Al-Nahar TV,... Sign in to see full entry.

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