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Friday, September 21, 2012

And more on ‘The Movie’, etc.

So the White House has declared the attack on the American Embassy in Benghazi a ‘Terrorist act.’ All well and good, except that when the White House calls something ‘terrorist’, it means to distance it from something everybody knows about but is afraid to say out loud, namely that these terrorists... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, September 20, 2012

I have the Answer…

It occurred to me today that the answer to the problem of Islam has been staring us in the face for a long time – we’ve just failed to notice it. I realized that when I read on CNN that the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has been publishing more cartoons of someone ‘resembling the Prophet... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, September 18, 2012

More about ‘The Movie’…

If you haven’t yet looked at ‘the movie’, or rather the YouTube video of it, 'Innocence of Muslims', do yourself a favour – resolve to avoid it. It is disgusting in parts, and the rest is just badly done. But you should understand this: the scenes depicted, describing events in Muhammad’s life, are... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, September 17, 2012

‘Don’t Blame the Video; Defend Free Speech’

A couple of days ago I posted a short piece in reaction to my shock at the ‘investigation’ of the producer of the movie that appears to have been the catalyst of the religious fury spreading throughout the Muslim world. The issue is not just this rather bad movie, of course, nor is it the fact that... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, September 15, 2012

My Biggest Shock Today…

With the pot boiling in the Middle East, something I’ve been following with great interest and concern, and being dismayed and saddened at the death of the Americans in Libya, I have of course been tempted to comment, as those few who read this blog might suspect. What has prevented me from doing... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, September 11, 2012

9/11…

It’s been a long day and I’ve been busy, but all day long my mind returned to those two numbers, to that date, that sunny September morning more than a decade ago when the world changed. Of course I thought of those who died, those in the towers and those in the planes, and of the brave responders... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, September 7, 2012

The Latest Out of Egypt…

Many people in the West are breathing a sigh of relief: Morsi, the Brotherhood’s choice of president has not yet turned Egypt into a bona fide theocracy. He wears neither fez nor turban and conducts himself with caution. For one thing, he’s not stupid, and for another thing the Army is still a force... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, July 26, 2012

From ‘Arab Spring’ into ‘Islamist Summer’…

With the Ikhwan (the Muslim Brotherhood) now in the tent in Egypt (although the real power is still with the army); with things coming to a head in Syria; with Iran adding another 1000 centrifuges to the ones they already have (I’ve lost count), it may be time to ‘take stock’, as it were, in an... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, July 22, 2012

Busy, Busy Mullahs…

While the Sunni rebel majority and the Iran-supported Shia are slaughtering one another in Syria; while the Sunni minority, once in charge in Iraq, are launching terror attacks against the Shia majority that is now in control; while all that is going on, Muslims have by no means forgotten about the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, July 19, 2012

Remembering Munich, 1972…

Forty years ago, during the Munich Olympics, eleven Israeli athletes were massacred by Muslim killers. In the run-up to the London Olympics Ankle Spitzer, the widow of one of the murdered Israelis, spearheaded an effort to have the victims of the Munich attack remembered in London by having a... Sign in to see full entry.

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