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Muslim Job Skills
“Kenya attack: 147 dead as Islamist gunmen target Christian students” is the headline in The Telegraph. The opening sentence of the piece reads: At least 147 people have been killed after Islamist terrorists attacked a Kenyan university, singling out Christian … Continue reading
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I think I could turn and live with animals…
From Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”: I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain’d, I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They … Continue reading
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Kiryas Joel
Eric McAfee has a fascinating profile of the village of Kiryas Joel, north of NYC. (“Demography & Destiny: America’s Youngest Community“): The village of Kiryas Joel is a perfect illustration of how demographic differences can play out spatially. An enclave … Continue reading
JYT: 3/15/15
The “Tracing Jewish Heritage Along the Danube” needs no comment. The “How Business Made Us Christian” op-ed does. It’s subtitle is “A Christian Nation? Since When?”… and it’s that sorta subtitle – one that instantly poo-poos the idea the U.S. … Continue reading
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Lawrence Wright on Scientology’s “Broken Community”
From a Salon interview with reporter Lawrence Wright, whose book Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief has been made into a soon-to-be-released HBO documentary: SALON: Miscavige strikes me as a little bit more like Stalin than like the … Continue reading
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France PM: 10,000 Europeans Could be Waging Jihad by Year-End
From AFP (Hat tip: AmRen): As many as 10,000 Europeans could be waging jihad in Iraq and Syria by the end of this year, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls warned Sunday, a three-fold increase on current numbers. “There are 3,000 … Continue reading
Posted in Death of the West, Europe, Islam
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ISIS Jobs Program, Pt. 2
The Organizer doubles-down on the vulgar Marxist notion that economics is a root cause of ISIS barbarism. WASHINGTON – President Obama defended his administration’s approach to the terror threat at a White House summit Wednesday, standing by claims that groups … Continue reading
Lone Wolves Bumping Into Each Other
Yet another ‘lone wolf’ ready to slaughter for Islam. Describing such events as the work of “lone wolves” is like saying individual soldiers in a conventional battlefield are independently acting as ‘lone wolves’. And so we have, now, weekly reminders … Continue reading
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What ISIS Really Wants
As The Organizer continues his semantic gymnastics, the buzz piece of the day was a supreme bitch-slap to Obama’s obfuscation: “What ISIS Really Wants” by Graeme Wood in The Atlantic. It is an outstanding, in-depth profile of ISIS’s ideological elements, … Continue reading
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Tick Tock
Meanwhile, in the NYT, what to make of liberal Roger Cohen penning a bluntly titled op-ed (“Islam and the West at War”)? After a Danish movie director at a seminar on “Art, Blasphemy and Freedom of Expression” and a Danish … Continue reading
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