“After the death of Jozef Pilsudski in 1935, anti-Semitism increased in Poland and particularly in the universities. Right-wing students attacked Jews and demanded ‘ghetto benches’ in the lecture halls to segregate Jewish students. Although many eminent Polish scholars protested, the situation continued to worsen.” — Samuel D. Kassow, from Who will write our history? (rediscovering […]
We Are Living In A Nihilistic World
“Americans have learned to expect, after every Islamist terror attack, lectures instructing them that such assaults should in no way be connected to Islamic faith of any kind.” — Dorothy Rabinowitz In Vancouver, B.C. they are now handing out free heroin to addicts. Turns out that the B.C. government is spending more money on […]
Children Who Will Never Have Time To Become Adults
“…everything began like a children’s game, a game played by children who will never have time to become adults.” — Marc Levy, from Children Of Freedom One of my greatest fears today is that my children will never have time to become adults. As a teenager, my greatest fear was of having to go […]
The Love of Justice
“The love of justice in most men is simply the fear of suffering injustice.” – La Rochefoucauld A CBC Calgary headline reads: “Calgary among 6 Canadian cities to sign charter against Islamophobia.” As a Canadian, I am concerned that this same charter will inevitably be used to silence all criticism of Islam the religion for […]
“Modern Islam Is Already Impossible”
“You can not reform a religion. If they are reformed, [the original meaning] is separated from it. Therefore, modern Muslims and a modern Islam is already impossible. If there is no separation between religion and state, there will be no democracy especially without equality for women. Then we will keep a theocratic system. So it […]
Islam and the West: A Cultural Divide
“Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.” — Robert Frost In a recent article in Canada’s National Post, Tom Blackwell writes about the findings of an Alberta study which suggests that there is “a culture clash…common for graduates of foreign medical schools.” He recounts that some doctors new […]
Mediocre Minds
“Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.” -La Rochefoucauld The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (now there’s a contradiction in terms!) has issued a statement conveying its disapproval of Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu’s declaration during a recent cabinet visit to the area when he assured Israelis that “the Golan will always remain […]
What We Fear
“What we feared has happened.” — Charles Michel, Prime Minister of Belgium I’ve been expecting Islam’s defenders and apologists to accuse Belgium’s Prime Minister Charles Michel of Islamophobia. So far, weeks after the attack, no journalist has dared brand this leader an Islamophobe, even though he has openly admitted to being afraid of and anticipating […]
A Malignant Ape
“It was surprising to some how many members of the faculties knuckled under to the Nazification of higher learning after 1933.” – William L. Shirer, from The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich After looking back at the destruction and horrors visited upon his native Germany during the Second World War, Prof. Julius Ebbinghaus […]
Hypocrite Lecteur
“And you, hypocrite lecteur, What makes you so superior?” -Louis Simpson, from There You Are I find it so very telling that whenever a majority of the population show their support for a cause or a personality the media and the Left disagree with or disapprove of, that support is deprecated as populism–as though populism […]