Islam means peace, according to some Muslims who, it seems, have a rather tenuous connection with reality. Today the peacemakers struck in in Tirin Kot, Afghanistan: In the first suicide attack, a bomber rammed his car into a convoy of international troops in Tirin Kot, capital of the central province of Uruzgan, killing five children…
Category: Islam
War in the Classrooms
In America the debate is over how to deliver universal education to all American youth, not whether it should be done. There is some argument about what the content of that education should be – evolution vs. intelligent design, for example – but very little disagreement over whether education should be a public right. In…
If I Could Meet One Person…
…it wouldn’t be any of the American political hacks whose antics I blog about. I certainly wouldn’t waste a wish on any overpaid athlete, artist, rock-n-roll star, or movie idol. If it were possible to turn back the clock I would like to meet George Orwell and especially Ayn Rand, although I’d approach both with…
How to Fight a War
Wars should be fought to win a victory against an aggressor. That is the true purpose of war. Not nation-building. Not leading an ungrateful rabble to the holy grail of democracy only to have them spit on it. Even preempting a potential enemy’s future capabilities is not, by itself, a reason to fight a war….
Pushing Back on Islam
As I recently wrote in “Assimilating Islam“, I believe it’s important that Americans and our justice system establish clear lines about what we will and will not allow to take place vis-a-vis the Islamic-ification of this country. It’s also quite tricky as our systems have a built-in preference for freedom of association, religion, and speech….
Assimilating Islam
I recently wrote about the need for foreign nationals to assimilate when they make the U.S. their home. In the light of the horror perpetrated by a foreign student at Virginia Tech University this week I think that the need for assimilation is more obvious than ever. Sadly, there is no indication that Muslims are willing…
ARI Counters the U.N. “Human Rights” Council
Yesterday the Ayn Rand Institute weighed in on the farce that is the United Nations Human Rights Council by saying: The U.N. Human Rights Council recently passed a resolution urging nations to pass laws prohibiting the dissemination of ideas that “defame religion.” It appears that the resolution was partly a response to last year’s Danish…
Bernard Lewis: We’re in the 3rd Islamic War on Europe
(Hat tip to Melanie Phillips) Bernard Lewis gave a must-read speech at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research on March 7th. Old news to many, but new to me. Very interesting reading. A key paragraph: The declaration of war begins at the very beginning of Islam. There are certain letters purported to have…
Assimilation
I’ve written about the need for immigrants from other cultures to assimilate when they come to the United States but as a conclusion to my last couple of posts I felt like I wanted to bang that drum again. It’s been said that the writing on Black Shards is anti-Mexican, anti-immigrant, and anti-Muslim and from…
Inside Threats
One of the problems with W’s War in Iraq (Wii – coincidence?) is that it has taken America’s eye almost completely off the ball, which is the global struggle against Islam. The enemy – and they are a real enemy, in case anyone’s not convinced yet – is not just in Iraq. Or even in…