“Masoud Barzani: Independent Kurdistan is loyal response to Peshmerga sacrifices,” Rudaw, March 5, 2017: Barzani [Masoud Barzani, President of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region] said that too many massacres have occurred, leaving no room for reconciliation,’ with a divided Iraq along the sectarian lines of Sunnis and Shiites, as he commented on the prospect of an […]
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Why Never-Trump Politics Is Bad For Jews
I don’t like to say I told you so, but I told you so. On March 1, I wrote about the rash of bomb threats against Jewish targets in the US, which a large segment of the opposition media gleefully used to malign President Trump: The question this leaves me with is whose political agenda is served by […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: The Mickey-Mockers of Mother Jones, and All That Islamophobia
Mother Jones is a left-wing publication that, while it seldom – and possibly never — has had a kind word for Christianity in its history, turns out to be a stout defender of Islam. How the Left fell so hard for Islam is a puzzlement, for a more retrograde faith — misogynistic, supremacist, homophobic, protective […]
France: One-third of young Muslims hold “fundamentalist” religious views
A large survey of 7000 students, aged 14-16 by the National Centre for Scientific Research, has found that a third of French Muslim youth had “fundamental religious views.” To clarify what “fundamental religious views” mean: 32 percent of them did not fully condemn the jihadist bloodbath at the Charlie Hebdo offices for the sharia crime […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: The Once and Future Al-Andalus
“We will recover al-Andalus, Allah willing. Oh dear Andalus! You thought we forgot about you. I swear by Allah we have never forgotten you. No Muslim can forget Córdoba, Toledo or Xàtiva. There are many faithful and sincere Muslims who swear they will return to al-Andalus.” — Islamic State video, January 31, 2016 Muslims are […]
Palestinian children at UK taxpayer-funded school pretend to execute Israeli soldier
$87,609,600 of British taxpayer money is being handed to the Palestinians, to fund schools, among other things. Anwar Abu Quak, an English teacher in Ramallah, has stated that “he had never seen a Western donor visit his school premises,” so there is no accountability. As it turns out: Britain is pumping huge sums of foreign aid […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Good News From France: “Hate Speech” Charges Dropped Against Georges Bensoussan
Professor Georges Bensoussan of the University of Strasbourg is a celebrated French historian of the Holocaust. He is currently the lead editor at the Shoah Memorial in Paris, and author of, among many books, Europe, Une Passion Génocidaire (Europe: A Genocidal Passion), a work he defined as “an intellectual archeology of the Shoah” and an attempt […]
Canada: Trudeau examining ways to silence “hateful criticism” over “anti-Islamophobia” motion M-103
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is now considering unspecified actions to hamper free speech and silence hateful criticism…. According to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) the Liberal government is prepared to “tackle any form of hate or threat” directed at Members of Parliament (MP). Every member of Parliament — and indeed, every Canadian — is […]
Swedish government report: Muslim Brotherhood infiltrating organizations and political parties, building parallel society
Aided by a politically correct culture of “tolerance,” and, of course, the stigmatization of anyone who speaks out as an “Islamophobe.” For a minute, I thought this report was talking about the United States. “Government Report: Islamists Building ‘Parallel Society’ in Sweden Aided By PC Culture of Silence,” by Liam Deacon, Breitbart, March 4, 2017: […]
WaPo: Fears of Russia and of Islam destroying Western society “overblown (particularly the latter)”
What your views on Russia and Islam say about your politics… A specter is haunting Europe and the United States. Well, actually, two of them: The supposed menace of the Kremlin, meddling in the affairs of Western democracies, and the putative threat of Islam, infiltrating Western society and destroying it from within. Both visions are […]