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The West Speaks
interviews by Jerry Gordon |
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Mohammed and Charlemagne Revisited: The History of a Controversy
Emmet Scott |
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Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy
Ibn Warraq |
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Anything Goes
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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Karimi Hotel
De Nidra Poller |
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The Left is Seldom Right
by Norman Berdichevsky |
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Allah is Dead: Why Islam is Not a Religion
by Rebecca Bynum |
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Virgins? What Virgins?: And Other Essays
by Ibn Warraq |
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An Introduction to Danish Culture
by Norman Berdichevsky |
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The New Vichy Syndrome:
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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Jihad and Genocide
by Richard L. Rubenstein |
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Second Opinion
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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Not With a Bang But a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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In Praise of Prejudice: The Necessity of Preconceived Ideas
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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Defending The West:
by Ibn Warraq |
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Nations, Language and Citizenship:
by Norman Berdichevsky |
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Romancing Opiates
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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Which Koran?
by Ibn Warraq |
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Our Culture, What's Left of It
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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What The Koran Really Says
by Ibn Warraq |
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Life at the Bottom
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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The Origins of the Koran
by Ibn Warraq |
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Why I Am Not Muslim
by Ibn Warraq |
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Spanish Vignettes: An Offbeat Look Into Spain's Culture, Society & History
by Norman Berdichevsky |
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Leaving Islam
Edited by Ibn Warraq |
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The Danish-German Border Dispute, 1815-2001: Aspects of Cultural and Demographic Politics
by Norman Berdichevsky |
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What's Love Got to Do with It?: Emotions and Relationships in Pop Songs
by Thomas J. Scheff |
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Here are the Blogs in the Esmerelda Weatherwax category.
Thursday, 10 May 2012
93 Percent Of French Muslims Voted For Hollande
From Business Insider and repeated with some triumph by the Islamic press.
According to a survey of 10,000 voters conducted by Opinionway for Le Figaro (not online), 93 percent of French Muslims voted for Francois Hollande in the second round of the French election, La Vie reports. (and 79 percent ...Read More...
Posted on 05/10/2012 1:57 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Wednesday, 9 May 2012
What triggered this prosecution was (not your race but) your lust and greed.
From The BBC and The Press Association
Nine men who ran a child sexual exploitation ring in Greater Manchester have been jailed. The men from Rochdale and Oldham, who exploited girls as young as 13 were given sentences ranging from four to 19 years.
In comments which appeared to conflict with police ...Read More...
Posted on 05/09/2012 10:07 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Tuesday, 8 May 2012
The Nine Rochdale Muslim groomers found guilty
Mary has already posted the verdicts in this case with an excellent correction to the BBC's report.. The Daily Mail has a few more details of events during the last few weeks. I would give a lot to know not just the name of the 59 year old man but why his identity is being kept secret. I hope now ...Read More...
Posted on 05/08/2012 2:24 PM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Tuesday, 8 May 2012
Egypt Islamist vows global caliphate in Jerusalem
From the Jerusalem Post
“The capital of the United States of the Arabs will be Jerusalem," preacher tells thousands at Brotherhood rally. Egypt’s Islamists aim to install a global Islamic caliphate with its capital in Jerusalem, a radical Muslim preacher told thousands of Muslim Brotherhood ...Read More...
Posted on 05/08/2012 2:59 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Tuesday, 8 May 2012
Totonto: Muslim program probed on anti-Jewish teaching
From the Toronto Star
York Region police are investigating a complaint about anti-Jewish teachings at a Muslim Sunday school that rents space in a Toronto public high school.
Jewish groups expressed shock at anti-Semitic teachings found on the website of the East End Madrassah — a religious ...Read More...
Posted on 05/08/2012 2:51 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Tuesday, 8 May 2012
New Underwear Plane Bomb Plot Foiled By US
From Sky News
A new al Qaeda plot to blow up a US-bound aircraft using an underwear bomb has been foiled, American officials have said. The plan, which was to be carried out around the first anniversary of Osama bin Laden's killing by US forces, involved a sophisticated version of the device that ...Read More...
Posted on 05/08/2012 2:24 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Monday, 7 May 2012
German police arrest 100 Salafist protesters
BERLIN (AP) — Clashes erupted in Germany when police tried to separate competing rallies by an ultraconservative Muslim group and a small far-right march, injuring 29 officers, authorities said Sunday. More than 100 Salafist protesters were briefly arrested.
The trouble in the western city of ...Read More...
Posted on 05/07/2012 3:55 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Sunday, 6 May 2012
Three killed in Boko Haram and JTF wedding shoot-out
From The Nation
The Joint Task Force (JTF) in Borno State and the Islamic sect, Boko Haram, were yesterday locked in a shootout at a wedding in Maiduguri, leaving three guests dead and several others injured.
Confirming the incident in a statement the JTF spokesman, Lt. Col. Sagir Musa said: "Credible ...Read More...
Posted on 05/06/2012 5:09 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Sunday, 6 May 2012
Curtailing ‘immodesty’: Fatwa against female education and in favour of compulsory marriage for female NGO workers
From the Express Tribune
KOHISTAN / DASSU: A former lawmaker and cleric from Kohistan district, Maulana Abdul Haleem, termed formal education for women un-Islamic and asked parents to pluck their daughters from school, or else they would be ‘doomed’.
The nonagenarian, who was elected to ...Read More...
Posted on 05/06/2012 1:33 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Saturday, 5 May 2012
Mali Islamists attack UNESCO holy site in Timbuktu
Reuters - Malian fighters from the Ansar Dine Islamist group attacked and burned the tomb of one of the town's saints, classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, residents and a regional official said on Saturday.
The militants broke off doors, windows and wooden gates from the grave and burned ...Read More...
Posted on 05/05/2012 3:41 PM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Saturday, 5 May 2012
Muslim woman beat girl, 10, with steel ladle for not reading enough of Koran
A Muslim woman who repeatedly beat a 10-year-old girl with a steel ladle for not reading enough verses of the Koran is facing jail today.
Asia Parveen, 31 brandished a knife at the child after accusing her of lying about her prayers. Parveen, who was five months pregnant at the time, also forced ...Read More...
Posted on 05/05/2012 2:39 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Saturday, 5 May 2012
Religious butchering now commonplace in Britain, leading vet claims
From The Telegraph
Non-Muslim Britons are being forced to eat animals slaughtered in "appalling" pain because religious butchering is becoming so common, a former chief vet has claimed.
Prof Bill Reilly, ex-president of the British Veterinary Association, said cutting the throats of lambs, ...Read More...
Posted on 05/05/2012 2:31 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Friday, 4 May 2012
Macedonia: Hundred of youths gather outside mosque in Skopje
Following the arrest of twenty Muslims accused of the murder of five Macedonian men earlier this week. From Focus Information agency. Photograph from Novinite
Skopje. Hundreds of youths have gathered outside Jaja Pasha Mosque in Skopje in support of the people arrested in Monstrum police ...Read More...
Posted on 05/04/2012 4:39 PM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Friday, 4 May 2012
Two men held in Birmingham over female genital mutilation claims
From The Independent
Two men were arrested today by police investigating claims that female genital mutilation is being offered in the UK.
West Midlands Police said a 55-year-old and a 61-year-old were arrested after officers from the force's public protection unit attended three separate addresses ...Read More...
Posted on 05/04/2012 11:31 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Friday, 4 May 2012
Germany: Salafist Muslims arrested as protest turns ugly
From the German edition of The Local
Police arrested 81 people on Tuesday after a Salafist Muslim protest in western Germany against a far-right group displaying cartoons of Mohammed outside mosques turned violent, with rocks thrown at police who responded with tear gas. Around 70 Safalist Muslims ...Read More...
Posted on 05/04/2012 3:11 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Friday, 4 May 2012
Osama bin Laden was told Ireland was 'ready for Islam'
From the Belfast Telegraph and the Irish Examiner
Osama bin Laden was urged by a fellow leading al-Qa'ida member to send a message to the Irish people to urge them to convert to Islam. New files removed from Bin Laden's compound reveal how Ireland was occupying the mind of top al-Qa'ida ...Read More...
Posted on 05/04/2012 3:04 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Friday, 4 May 2012
Bangladesh teacher 'burns' legs of girl pupils - know the severity of the fire in hell.
Police in Bangladesh are looking for a teacher from a Muslim religious school who allegedly placed burning hot iron rods on the legs of her students for failing to offer prayers regularly. They say 14 girls, aged between eight and 12, received burn injuries.
The girls were learning Arabic and Bengali ...Read More...
Posted on 05/04/2012 1:59 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Thursday, 3 May 2012
Tower Hamlets Local elections: 'They knock on the door and ask us to give them our ballot papers'
From the Independent
Runa Ali is aware her neighbourhood has a reputation for dodgy electoral practices. Standing on the doorstep of her flat in Tower Hamlets, east London, she is more resigned than she is angry.
"Someone was round here a little while ago asking to collect our ballot. They ...Read More...
Posted on 05/03/2012 5:33 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Thursday, 3 May 2012
Al Qaeda Magazine Calls for Firebomb Campaign in US
From ABC News
The men who launched al Qaeda's English-language magazine may have died in a U.S. missile strike last fall, but "Inspire" magazine lives on without them -- and continues to promote jihadi attacks on Western targets, offering detailed advice on how to start huge forest fires ...Read More...
Posted on 05/03/2012 5:18 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Thursday, 3 May 2012
Illegal immigrant plotted suicide bombing in Sweden, court hears
From The Telegraph and the Swedish edition of the Local
An alleged terrorist has gone on trial in a British court charged with plotting to carry out an attack with a man who died in an explosion on a busy street in Stockholm.
Taimour Abdulwahab died after detonating an improvised explosive ...Read More...
Posted on 05/03/2012 3:51 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Wednesday, 2 May 2012
On the eve of the London mayoral election
in case anybody has forgotten
Mr Livingstone, Labour’s candidate for mayor of London, pledged to “educate the mass of Londoners” in Islam, saying: “That will help to cement our city as a beacon that demonstrates the meaning of the words of the Prophet. . . I want to spend the ...Read More...
Posted on 05/02/2012 1:39 PM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Wednesday, 2 May 2012
Adis Medunjanin Convicted Of Plotting To Attack NYC Subways
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) – A New York man was convicted Tuesday of plotting an aborted suicide mission against New York City subways in 2009 — a case that featured the first-time testimony from admitted homegrown terrorists about al Qaeda’s fixation with pulling off another attack ...Read More...
Posted on 05/02/2012 3:14 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Wednesday, 2 May 2012
Radical Muslim group involved in Macedonia murders arrested
From AFP via the Canadian National Post
SKOPJE — Macedonian police announced Tuesday that they arrested 20 radical Muslims, suspected to be members of a terrorist group which has been linked to the murder of five Macedonians in early April.
“The ministry of the interior found the perpetrators ...Read More...
Posted on 05/02/2012 3:05 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Wednesday, 2 May 2012
Jury out in child sex ring trial
From the Lancashire Evening Post, the Guardian and Mancunian Matters
A jury has retired to consider its verdicts in the trial of 11 men from Greater Manchester accused of being part of a child sexual exploitation ring.
Liverpool Crown Court heard that five girls were "shared" ...Read More...
Posted on 05/02/2012 2:39 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Tuesday, 1 May 2012
Porn files reveal Al-Qaeda master plan to terrorize Europe
The document analysed by CNN here wasn't the only one hidden in the porn film. Russia Today has more.
The documents were found by the German Federal Criminal Police in mid-March 2011 after they arrested a man called Maqsood Lodin. Investigators suspect that the Austrian received training in a terrorist ...Read More...
Posted on 05/01/2012 11:30 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
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