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Islam didn’t create ISIS but who did? Dr Jonathan Brown gives the answer
A breath of reality from a great Muslim scholar who will be in London next week. Published on 24 Feb 2016.
Mossad’s Fingerprints On Paris Attacks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTcidJRv7kQ I dont necessarily agree with everything this eccentric Orthodox Christian Nathanael Kapner with all his principles, but his opinion in this video at first would have seemed bizarre but come to think of it later I find it very… Read More ›
#thinkaboutit
In Turkey, 86.6% of the people vote in parliamentary elections. In Palestine, 77% of the people vote. In Indonesia, 75.1% of the people vote. In Iran, 64.2% of the people turn out. In Pakistan, 53.6% of the people. Contrast this… Read More ›
Some juicy new reading
I have just got back from the wondrous Foyles Bookshop in Charing Cross Road, having bought two succulent gems.. St Paul: The Misunderstood Apostle has just been published, written by the celebrated religious commentator Karen Armstrong. I always appreciate her balanced… Read More ›
Israeli Cruelty and Stupidity Know No Limits. By Miko Peled
Originally posted on Miko Peled:
In the court room with my co-defendants and our lawyer, the one and only Ms. Gaby Laski. Israel upped its genocidal policies with cruel attacks against Palestinians, killing young and old, men and women, boys and girls.…
All-American Sheikh
Religious scholar Hamza Yusuf discusses the arc of Islamic civilization, the causes of Middle East conflict, and running the first Muslim liberal arts college in the United States. By Scott MacLeod © 2015 The Cairo Review of Global Affairs. As… Read More ›
Would St. Thomas More blog?
I still haven’t made up my mind whether I shall publish it all. Some people are so humorless, so uncharitable, and so absurdly wrong-headed, that one would probably do far better to relax and enjoy life than worry oneself to… Read More ›
Irony at its finest
In this interview from April 15th, 1994 Dick Cheney reveals the reasons why invading Baghdad and toppling Saddam Hussein’s regime wouldn’t be a great idea. He also stipulates that “not very many” American soldiers’ lives were worth losing to take… Read More ›
Islamic democracy: sovereignty belongs to God.
Western secular democracy: sovereignty belongs to Man. Christian political praxis: sovereignty belongs to Man.
Slavoj Žižek: Political Correctness is a more dangerous form of totalitarianism
Slavoj Žižek doesn’t buy into political correctness. In fact, it frightens him. The famed philosopher and social critic describes political correctness as a tacit form of totalitarianism, an act of coercion built upon the premise that “I know better than… Read More ›
Former Saddam Hussein spy masterminded the rise of Isis, says report
reblogged from todays Guardian Documents uncovered in Aleppo show that Haji Bakr drew up the ‘blueprint for caliphate’ after being jailed by the US authorities, according to Der Spiegel One of Saddam Hussein’s former intelligence officers masterminded Islamic State’s takeover… Read More ›
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