The Iconoclast

Here. He's excitable, and apparently hasn't been able to sit still long enough to read -- read, for example, Bat Ye'or's "Islam and Dhimmitude." Had he done so, he might not be so ready to exclude an alliance with the Front National, a political movement which, he may not have noticed, is the only ...Read More...

From the Sunday Telegraph Islamist terrorists have called for attacks on London’s Oxford Street and the Westfield shopping centres in the latest jihadist threat to the UK. A video released by the Somalia-based fanatics al-Shabaab called on its followers to “hasten to heaven” by attacking some ...Read More...

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It happened on Friday. That, as you are well aware, is a special day, so often ending in violence. Story here. ...Read More...

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Story e La Barcaccia -- the boat in marble that never sinks, though it is always in danger of sinking, fluctuat nec mergitur, is the fountain, one of the most famous in the world, that is in the Piazza di Spagna, at the bottom of the Spanish Steps that lead up to Trinita dei Monti. Dutch hooligan-fans, ...Read More...

This is from the Sunday Times. When I get a link to the report I'll update this. ...a report published by the Henry Jackson Society (HJS) ... warned ... that unregistered Islamic charities are running rampant. They are operating in areas such as Bradford, Birmingham, Manchester, Yorkshire, Luton ...Read More...

From the story in today's Boston Sunday Globe: "Tsarnaev had led many of them [his friends at Cambridge Rindge and Latin] to believe that he was getting good grades at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and had turned down attending Northeastern because it offered him less financial aid. ...Read More...

Not Rotherham - Oxfordshire. Rotherham produced the scandal of numbers and coverup but, in my opinion, this trial of men from Oxford produced descriptions of some of the most sadistic abuse I have yet read. From Andrew Gilligan again in the Sunday Telegraph. The council which failed scores of girls ...Read More...

Andrew Gilligan in the Sunday Telegraph Baroness Warsi, the first Muslim woman to sit in Cabinet, handed official posts to people linked to Islamist groups, including a man involved in an “unpleasant and bullying” campaign to win planning permission for the controversial London “megamosque” proposed ...Read More...

Here. The two earliest posts on this matter were put up on the same day.  Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, The Boy Mass-Murderer Who Is Cambridge is followed by comments from Andrea Kramer, Esq., who writes in to defend Andrea Kramer. Esq., and that is followed by a reply to Andrea Kramer, Esq.'s stout defense ...Read More...

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Bethnal Green Academy, (where four dozy chits from the same year have decamped as jihad brides to Syria, the latest group of three are currently in the news) previously Bethnal Green Technology College, and before that Bethnal Green High School was formed in around 1997 when the all boys Danesford School ...Read More...

"This is an inauspicious day for moxibustion."   --- from Kenji Mizoguchi's Osaka Elegy (1936) ...Read More...

I don't know how I could have overlooked this article when it first appeared two weeks ago, at The Gatestone Institute. But I did. Here. More of Uzay Bulut's writings are listed here.   ...Read More...

It was on the BBC, and CNN, and all the American networks. In the U.K., Prime Minister Cameron has been concerned. It's all over the place -- what oh what can be done to find those three little maids from school, the school itself, Bethnal Green, even being shown on international networks. This insensate ...Read More...

Rod Nordland writes in the NYTimes: RAIDA, Yemen — About all that remain of Yemen’s ancient and once vibrant Jewish community are untended cemeteries, dramatic hillside ghetto villages of thousand-year-old stone houses and a few people like Abraham Jacob and his extended family. Most of them live ...Read More...

A letter from Dean Martha Minow, of Harvard Law School, who likes to accentuate the positive, and just loves her exclamation points!     Greetings from Cambridge! I write with New Year's regards and news from Harvard Law School as 2015 gets under way. I am proud to report that our students ...Read More...

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Story here. Societies suffused with Islam are naturally aggressive and violent. If there are no Infidels present to persecute or murder, other Muslims will do -- provided they can be seen as less-than-perfect Muslims. Arabs regard non-Arabs as lower on the Islamic pecking order, and Berbers and Kurds, ...Read More...

This article about the three-day summit on Violent Extremism suggests that those governments that crack down with an iron fist on Muslims who use violence to obtain their ends are  are "part of the problem." But the regime that now constitutes the greatest "part of the problem" is that of the United ...Read More...