The Iconoclast
Ridiculous Complaints About An Indispensable Security Program
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Michel Houellebecq’s Interview In The Paris Review
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Houellebecq Says His "Submission" Is Merely History Speeded UP
And that history, speeded-up, brings a Muslim ruler (president) to France, with the consequences that naturally would follow. This is not a satire, not a fantasy, he says in an […]
Al-Sisi Could Seize This Chance To Send His Military Into Libya
Muslims in Libya have been killing Egyptian Copts who work in that country; now they have seized, at one blow, more than a dozen of them. This gives Al-Sisi his […]
Dispatch: Syria rebels ‘burned down churches and destroyed Christian graves’
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Georges Loinger, 104: "You Always Have To Face Reality And Be Prepared"
Georges Loinger was a hero of the Resistance who saved many French Jews. He came from Alsace; he had listened to the German radio; he had talked to those who […]
Are mosque fires end of ‘paradise’ Sweden?
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Allow A Public Vote To Ban Islam In The U.K.
This petition at http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/70069 needs 100,000 British votes by the last day of March 2015 in order for the subject matter to stand any chance at all of being debated […]
The Administration in 2015 faces Veto Dilemmas at UN and in Congress
French demonstrators in Paris favoring Palestinian state Source: AFP/Getty Images As 2014 was closing a vote on a draft resolution introduced by the Jordanian UN Ambassador at the Security Council […]
A Literary Interlude: Ballad (Vladislav Khodasevich)
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The Short Unhappy Life Of Ahmed Al-Darawy
He was consumed with the idea that Arab “greatness” was lost, that the Arab world, as he saw it, was going down the drain. And of course he could never […]
Al-Sisi’s Speech And Getting — Just Maybe — With The Program
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David Wood And Osama Abdallah Debate: Is The Islamic State Islamic?
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More Woe Than Weal For Hezbollah
Here. It’s not easy being on a Shi’a island in a Sunni sea.
Slow (!) Jihadists Of Fatah Celebrate Their First 50 Years
Fatah fi sabil Allah, with not much to show for it, militarily, but the propaganda campaign — the U.N., the I.C.C. — is going gangbusters. Here.
Just A Note From The Nile On John McCain And His Ilk
Here. And by extension, an observation about all those who thought, who may still think, that without touching Islam, and its hold on the minds of men, Arab societies can […]