There is no indication in this article about what Morris actually said that was so offensive, or whether or not it was true. Actually, it probably was true: as in the Wilders trial, as Pat Condell has said, “Fear of free speech is the symptom of a profoundly neurotic and…
When they say they want peace they really mean it.
Part 1 is here, and part 2 here. In 1918, T. E. Lawrence set down some advice for his fellow British military men (and civilians) on Understanding and Dealing with the Bedu for “beginners in the Arab armies.” Given that Lawrence had been working with the Sharifian forces for less…
“According to the Mufti, the conflict between Israel and its Arabs neighbors has nothing to do with an Islamic war against Judaism.” – from this story about the Mufti of Syria Of course he would say that. Muslims are deeply worried that as people all over the Western world who…
Dubai is a place, and a symbol. As a place, it has no claim on our attention. Voltaire once described French Canada as “quelques arpents de neige.” Dubai, like the rest of the Emirates, like Saudi Arabia, could with more justice be dismissed, as “quelques arpents de sable.” It also…
The reason this keeps happening is, of course, the shared goal among jihadist movements to impose Islamic law. Pakistan raid kills ‘Arab, Sudan fighters’,” from Agence France-Presse, December 31 (thanks to Sr. Soph): AFP – Pakistan commandos raided a private hospital before dawn in a Taliban stronghold near the Afghan…
One thing that could be done would be to send a few thousand troops to seize the southern Sudan and Darfur. For by now it should be clear that the Arabs of the north have no intention of allowing the southern, black African Sudanese to hold a referendum on independence….
Until the 1967 war, many in Western Europe saw Israel — correctly — as a tiny and besieged state, surrounded by enemies who wished to destroy it. In this respect, they were helped along by the fact that the leader of those who would after the Six-Day War be carefully…
As a new immigrant to Israel about to enter the army and living in Sderot, I have some questions.
Classic and typical jihadist evasion and displacement of responsibility. It’s more disturbing that Barack Obama seems to agree, at least from the looks of his Cairo speech — in which the only causes for tension between the West and the Islamic world that he mentioned were the fault of the…
