Review of Christopher Caldwell’s Reflections on the Revolution in Europeby FjordmanThis is a review of Christopher Caldwell’s 2009 book Reflections on the Revolution in Europe. Let me first start with the positive: Mr. Caldwell is not a bad man. He sees through the rhetoric of Tariq Ramadan, for instance, which…
In Turkey, a father and grandfather bury Medine Memi, a sixteen-year-old girl, alive.
In “Nothing To Fear: Misreading Muslim immigration in Europe” by John R. Bowen in the Boston Review’s January/February 2010 edition (thanks to Quasimodo), there appears this paragraph: Europe’s anti-Islam sentiment may be expressed most visibly in memoirs because Europeans have been reticent to condemn Islam–or religion more generally–outright. Americans, however,…
War is Deceit: “The report quoted Bosnia-Herzegovina Ministry of Security sources as saying a large number of Wahhabis moved to the region under the pretext of helping to build a mosque.” There may be a mosque involved in the plans, but that doesn’t rule out far more, after the fashion…
Who is the most important European alive today? I nominate the Dutch politician Geert Wilders. I do so because he is best placed to deal with the Islamic challenge facing the continent. He has the potential to emerge as a world-historical figure. That Islamic challenge consists of two components: on the one hand, an indigenous [...]
Many continue to believe that if we argue that Islam itself is the problem, this will leave the West with no solutions. The word “solution” leapt out at me. I have written about it many times before, in regards to those who speak of a “two-state solution” to the Arab…
A Eurabia Alert from the Cardinal Archbishop of Prague: “Cardinal says Christian Europe is to blame for Islamisation,” by Simon Caldwell for the Telegraph, January 6 (thanks to Tanguy Veys): A leading Catholic cardinal has said Europeans only have themselves to blame for allowing Islam to “conquer” the continent. Czech…
They can do this sort of thing with impunity, because one thing they can be sure of is that the Europeans will never stop giving the aid. “Al-Qaeda ‘took French and Spanish hostages in Africa,’” from the BBC, December 8 (thanks to Twostellas): An offshoot of the al-Qaeda network has…
On November 18, Iran’s foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki rejected a proposal that his country should export some 70 percent of its low-enriched uranium for further processing abroad. On November 20, the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany met in Brussels and urged Iran to reconsider. “I continue to hold out the [...]
