Dec 25, 2009

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The Apostate

Infidel: My LifeAyaan Hirsi AliLondon: Simon & Schuster, 2007Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s political career was brief and dramatic. Born in Somalia in 1969, she is the daughter of Hirsi Magan Isse, a scholar and political dissident. She arrived in the Netherlands in 1992 as an asylum-seeker, learned the language, earned degrees in political science at Leiden University, and became an...

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Dec 1, 2009

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Switzerland Minus Minarets

From Age of Treason, November 30, 2009Power to the Swiss people and the Schweizerische Volkspartei (SVP). The image caption reads, “Swiss quality, the middle class’ party.”Swiss Ban Building of Minarets on Mosques – NYTimes.com:The government must now draft a supporting law on the ban, a process that could take at least a year and could put Switzerland in...

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Nov 13, 2009

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Jews, Islam, & Orientalism

In Western history the Spanish Reconquista stands as an important landmark. Spain had once belonged to Islam, but with Reconquest the long Islamic intrusion which had begun in 711 was brought to an end, apparently decisively. From a Christian perspective the Reconquista was the gradual expulsion, beginning in the eleventh century and ending in the fifteenth, of Muslim unbelievers...

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Nov 12, 2009

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The Limits of “Islamophobia”

“Islamophobia” has made the news again. Thanks to Fitna—the anti-Islam film by Dutch politician Geert Wilders—the usual suspects are wringing their hands about “intolerance,” “xenophobia,” and “racism” directed at Muslim immigrants. Wilders is not alone in his disdain for the unimpeded Muslim migration into Europe and North America—from columnist Mark...

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Nov 12, 2009

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Abrogated Verses in the Koran

“Let there be no compulsion in religion; truth stands out clear from error” (Sura 2.256).Apologists for Islam often quote this verse, and most Westerners, unfamiliar with the Koran and imagining that it must obey the same theological logic as the Christian Bible, assume that Islamic scripture mandates religious toleration toward non-Muslims. That assumption is...

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Nov 11, 2009

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Intolerance & Deception in Islam

Islam is in essence intolerant, and its highly Machiavellian logic alternates between force and deception: deception, when Muslims are weakest and form a minority; force, when their dominance begins to be assured. Among Arabo-African immigrants Islam is not conceived of as a spiritual religion (its moral precepts are seldom followed) but as a revanchist form of ethnic...

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Nov 10, 2009

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Patrick J. Buchanan’s “Diversity Kills”

From Taki’s Magazine, November 10, 2009Nidal Malik Hasan was two men.One was the proud Army major who wore battle fatigues to mosque; the other, the proud Arab who wore Muslim garb in civilian life.What brought Hasan’s identities into fatal conflict was his belief that Iraq and Afghanistan were unjust wars, and his shock that he, a Muslim, was to be sent to serve in one of...

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