The Iconoclast
Sunnis and Shi’a at the OK Corral
by Hugh Fitzgerald From al-Arabiya: A senior leader of the Iranian army has mocked Gulf Arab states for their disappointment in Syria and threatened that after the victory in Aleppo […]
Search for Berlin attack suspect intensifies as anger in Germany grows
From “The New York Times” reported late on Wednesday, citing an unnamed US official. German prosecutors have issued a Europe-wide wanted notice for Amri, offering a 100,000 euro ($104,000) reward […]
Note to Angela Merkel: You can’t do it
by Gary Fouse German Chancellor Angela Merkel has become a parody of herself with each new terror attack committed by one of the refugees, asylum-seekers, or migrants that she has […]
Have you packed your own suitcase?
by Theodore Dalrymple No time or society, I imagine, is entirely without its ironies or contradictions. For example, we are horrified by the sexual abuse of children but all our […]
Berlin attack: Tunisian man ‘identified as suspect’ from truck documents
From The Telegraph and the German edition of The Local German police are hunting a Tunisian man over the Berlin market attack after finding documents in the truck, according to reports. The […]
The Confusions of Tony Blair, Part II
by Hugh Fitzgerald Recognizing that something’s wrong with Islam is an advance. Assuming it can be made right smacks of Pollyanna. Tony Blair has said that the educational systems in […]
Austria: Asylum seeker STORMS nativity play to read from the Koran
Local media reported that the man had appeared to be “confused”.
The Bully of Londonistan
by Theodore Dalrymple A man charged with a crime has the right to the best defense he can make, but his lawyer ought not to offer preposterous arguments in mitigation […]
Driver of Berlin attack truck was Pakistani Update: Released for lack of evidence
According to the German newspaper released for lack of evidence. The suspect is still at large.
Truck used in Berlin ‘terror attack’ was ‘HIJACKED’ before ploughing into Christmas market killing shoppers
This isn’t yet certain but it has the ring of truth. From the Daily Mail The truck used to plough into a Christmas market in Berlin, killing at least nine […]
Islamic State Supporters Celebrate Berlin Truck ‘Attack’
TEL AVIV – Islamic State sympathizers and militants are celebrating an incident on Monday in which a lorry ploughed through a crowd of shoppers in a busy Christmas market in […]
Nine dead as truck hits Berlin Christmas market in suspected attack
They only have to get lucky once and tonight ‘they’ got lucky with the one everybody was trying to stop. Somewhere in Europe a Christmas market was the target. Peace […]
Democrat Alarmism: Another American Fad Comes North
by Conrad Black A pandemic of denial over the incoming president of the United States grips his Democratic opponents, and, like most American fads and traits, is as strong in […]
The Vandals Took the Handles
by Theodore Dalrymple “Whereof one cannot speak,” said Ludwig Wittgenstein at the end of the Tractatus, “thereof one must be silent.” Speaking of his Nobel Prize for Literature, Bob Dylan […]
The Confusions of Tony Blair, Part I
by Hugh Fitzgerald Soon after the Muslim terrorist attacks of 9/11, Tony Blair let it be known that he was a great admirer of Islam, and that he had taken […]
Noam Chomsky and Tom Wolfe are Both Right and Both Wrong
by Rebecca Bynum I just finished Tom Wolfe’s The Kingdom of Language in which he declares his belief that language is a human invention and artifact – a cultural production […]
