There is no outcry because our popular culture is thoroughly rotten. There reaches a point where you have to say it: I believe in evil. Satan is laughing. * * * I, too, believe in evil… (Don’t say that three…
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Flamesem & Japesem (while Laughing at the Ground)
Posted in Politics, Religion Tagged with: Islam, Islamophobia, Olde Contentions, Satan, Steven Den Beste, Tea Party
From Somalia without love
[amazon-product]1439157316[/amazon-product]In the middle of a mostly sympathetic review of Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Nomad, Nicholas Kristof wondered parenthetically if the author’s family is dysfunctional “simply because its members never learned to bite their tongues and just say to one another: ‘I…
Posted in Books, International Relations, Religion Tagged with: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Islam, Islamophobia
Reasons too obvious for reasoning
Here’s how Allahpundit sums up recent opinion polling among New York City residents on the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque” project showing among other things that respondents claim a more positive opinion of Muslims than they do of the project: It’s…
Dialogue with John: Sacred Texts/Tests
John asks: If one is not actively trying to convert the other, professing good and evil, pushing revelation, is one having a political conversation? and can politics ever approximate an ideally-disinterested academic discussion, with its ways of mixing disinterested commentary…
Posted in International Relations, Politics, Religion, War Tagged with: Alexandre Kojève, Islam, Islamism, Islamophobia, Leo Strauss, Terror, War
Islamophobia = Islamism (Replies to John)
John asks (all further blockquotes will be from the linked comment): [W]hy make the claim that [the Islamophobes’] approach is useless or dangerous…? By now I’ve written fairly extensively on what I think is wrong with an Islamophobic approach, and…
Cost of Islamophobia 3 – Islamism and Modernity
John asked for me to address the following point: [N]otwithstanding all the sects and interpretations of Islam that evolved in the agrarian age, all the relatively peaceful local practises mediated by saints, shrines, and the pragmatic needs of Islamic societies,…
The Cost of Islamophobia 2: The Goo Goo Genocidaires Vs The Lying Hatemongers
Walter Russell Mead was one of the two writers I quoted with respect and approval in yesterday’s “The Cost of Islamophobia” post, as I believed his analysis of Turkey’s predicament supported the insistence on distinctions between different types of political,…
Posted in Religion, War Tagged with: Appeasement, Arab Middle East, Iran, Islam, Islamism, Islamophobia, Turkey, Walter Russell Mead, War
In my own name only…
Why this building, there? Leaving aside some melodrama – “insane,” “looming horror,” “surrender” – that question sums up the reaction to Cordoba House, a.k.a. “The Ground Zero Mosque,” a project of the the Cordoba Initiative (CI) that last week added…
Posted in International Relations, Religion, War Tagged with: Bin Laden, collective guilt, Cordoba House, Ground Zero Mosque, Islam, Islamophobia, Rick Barber, Rod Dreher, War