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The West Speaks
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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
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Here are the Blogs in the Mary Jackson category.
Tuesday, 22 November 2011
Musical interlude: Joséphine Baker - J'ai deux amours
Posted on 11/22/2011 12:00 PM by Mary Jackson
Saturday, 19 November 2011
Cliché corner
God moves in unmysterious ways. Charles Moore in The Spectator:
As the Church of England keeps telling us how much it shares the aims of the St Paul’s protestors, I notice an advertisement it has placed in the Financial Times. The Church Commissioners need a chief operating officer. He will be ...Read More...
Posted on 11/19/2011 11:39 AM by Mary Jackson
Thursday, 17 November 2011
Man does not live by bread alone
Tell that to the BBC:
Britain's 'cheapest' lunchtime meal was unveiled by scientists on Wednesday - the toast sandwich.
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is reviving the mid-Victorian dish, which, unsurprisingly, consists of two slices of bread around a slice of toast.
The society ...Read More...
Posted on 11/17/2011 4:16 PM by Mary Jackson
Thursday, 17 November 2011
Would you Adam and Eve it?
"Three Dutch Moroccans" is not a promising beginning to a news report. It could be that three Dutch Moroccans have won the Nobel Prize for Physics, or put on a good comedy show, or, since they make a trio, played some soothing chamber music. But is that likely? Isn't it more likely that ...Read More...
Posted on 11/17/2011 1:19 PM by Mary Jackson
Tuesday, 15 November 2011
And?
Ours is not to reason why. Ours is not to rhyme, either. Or scan. "Where's this story going?" asks Matthew Parris, not knowing that when it comes to Mohammed, you just don't ask. From Khalifah:
Hunaydah ibn Khaalid narrated upon the authority of his wife who said, "Some of the ...Read More...
Posted on 11/15/2011 2:32 PM by Mary Jackson
Monday, 14 November 2011
My soul embiggens the Lord ...
... and my spirit is chuffed to bits with God, who's really been there for me. Other translations of the Bible -- what do you mean, other than what? -- are without form and void, according to Revd Peter Mullen. From The Telegraph:
There is no such thing as noble truth expressed in ignoble words. ...Read More...
Posted on 11/14/2011 1:08 PM by Mary Jackson
Thursday, 10 November 2011
We are not a-moo-sed
From The Telegraph:
Throughout history, men of distinction have collected soubriquets that sum up their achievements. Often, it is all they are known for: just as Alfred is irrevocably Great, so is Solomon Wise, Ethelred Unready, and poor Ladislaus Posthumous. The heir to our own throne has more titles ...Read More...
Posted on 11/10/2011 2:22 PM by Mary Jackson
Thursday, 10 November 2011
Annoying Americanism of the millennium
Tomorrow, according to The Guardian and other British Newspapers, it will be 11/11/11. This is good, apparently, because it is like corduroy.
But why are we doing it the American way round? What's wrong with the British order: 11/11/11?
Those Americans -- they take our language and now they've ...Read More...
Posted on 11/10/2011 6:50 AM by Mary Jackson
Tuesday, 8 November 2011
British border controls
Posted on 11/08/2011 4:28 PM by Mary Jackson
Saturday, 5 November 2011
Pat Condell: Support for Palestine means support for Jew-killing
Never one to sit on the fence, Pat Condell rips into those "bubbleheads" who support the "Palestinian" "cause". Jew-hatred is the cause of Arab Muslim opposition to Israel, and it comes straight from Islam.
This is a good one:
I get the impression that Condell knows ...Read More...
Posted on 11/05/2011 9:54 AM by Mary Jackson
Wednesday, 2 November 2011
The Irish and Israel - another good egg
In the comments to this month's article by Robert Harris, Hugh Fitzgerald writes:
There is Paul Muldoon. There is Seamus Heaney. From the outside, they are better positioned to see how unfair, how grotesque, is the Irish coverage of the Jihad being waged, and permanently to be waged, against Israel. ...Read More...
Posted on 11/02/2011 5:55 PM by Mary Jackson
Wednesday, 2 November 2011
'Be God's curse upon you!': the dangers of mixing satire and Islam
Tom Chivers in The Telegraph:
I went to see Steven Pinker and Matt Ridley last night at Intelligence Squared, talking about Pinker's new book The Better Angels of our Nature in which he shows, powerfully, that we are now living in the safest time to be alive in the history of humanity. It's ...Read More...
Posted on 11/02/2011 2:42 PM by Mary Jackson
Tuesday, 1 November 2011
Another Kathleen Ferrier interlude: Ca' the Yowes
Posted on 11/01/2011 2:14 PM by Mary Jackson
Tuesday, 1 November 2011
Sing Willow Willow Willow
A Kathleen Ferrier interlude, perhaps the first at this site:
Update: Not the first, and probably not the last.
...Read More...
Posted on 11/01/2011 11:48 AM by Mary Jackson
Tuesday, 1 November 2011
In Memoriam: Jimmy Savile
So farewell, then, Jimmy
Savile. Ladies and gentlemen. Guys and gals. How's
About that, then? Clunk
Click, every trip. 'As it
'Appens. Aaaaaaarrgh-eearrgh-eearrrgh--eearrghhh!
Those were just
Some of your
Catch phrases. Not sure how
To spell the
Last one. Jim'll fix ...Read More...
Posted on 11/01/2011 11:15 AM by Mary Jackson
Sunday, 30 October 2011
Banana in Sodomy Case
Speaking of sodomy, as we were, and of bananas, as were weren't ...
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Posted on 10/30/2011 4:56 PM by Mary Jackson
Sunday, 30 October 2011
Stud-e-zones
Chippy self-made men used to boast of having attended the "University of Life" -- as if academic and practical ability were mutually exclusive. Now that the world and his wife can go to university, or "Uni" as we must call it, the boundary is blurring between those institutions and ...Read More...
Posted on 10/30/2011 9:10 AM by Mary Jackson
Wednesday, 26 October 2011
A Good Thing, or, she scrubs up well
Of Simon Vereist's painting of Nell Gwyn, now exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, The Times writes:
Her nipple became visible only after restoration.
All the King's Christmases came at once.
...Read More...
Posted on 10/26/2011 1:37 PM by Mary Jackson
Tuesday, 25 October 2011
Well, duh ...
Telegraph leader, specialist subject, the leadin' bleedin' obvious:
At first glance, last weekend’s elections in Tunisia, the first to be held since the Middle East was swept by anti-government protests at the start of the year, can be deemed a great success.
An estimated ...Read More...
Posted on 10/25/2011 3:48 PM by Mary Jackson
Thursday, 20 October 2011
Is America illegal?
From the BBC, which probably thinks every country is illegal except "Palestine".
In Philadelphia, American and British lawyers have debated the legality of America's founding documents.
[J]ust what did Thomas Jefferson think he was doing?
Some background: during the hot and sweltering ...Read More...
Posted on 10/20/2011 2:30 AM by Mary Jackson
Tuesday, 18 October 2011
Britain's gone to pot
Chimney pot, that is. Harry Mount in The Telegraph:
Classically British - the red-brick chimney (Photo: Claire Lim)
The Italians have the Renaissance, the Americans have the skyscraper, and we have the chimney.
Isn't that a sweeping generalisation?
That’s the pleasing conclusion ...Read More...
Posted on 10/18/2011 8:13 AM by Mary Jackson
Tuesday, 18 October 2011
L'Chaim!
Israel has made a deal to rescue Gilad Shalit not because it is pragmatic, but because it is right, says Daniel Taub. From The Telegraph:
For five years, the national concern for Gilad (in Israel no surname is necessary) has found expression in mass vigils, marches and a permanent tent gathering ...Read More...
Posted on 10/18/2011 7:52 AM by Mary Jackson
Friday, 14 October 2011
In other news ...
From The Times:
Lady Gaga has blocked the release of a single by a cartoon character called Lady Goo Goo.
Well, at least it's got nothing to do with Islam.
...Read More...
Posted on 10/14/2011 10:12 AM by Mary Jackson
Thursday, 13 October 2011
Gangs are the new Muslims
Here is a report by the BBC:
Thousands of children in England are being horrifically abused by gangs, the deputy children's commissioner has said, as she launches an inquiry.
Current estimates say up to 10,000 children could be affected by the sexual abuse, but it is feared the true figure could ...Read More...
Posted on 10/13/2011 5:20 PM by Mary Jackson
Thursday, 13 October 2011
Never mind the economics – marriage-led immigration is socially destructive
More from The Telegraph's Ed West on this story, about proposed minimum income requirements for immigrants who “sponsor” wives and dependants to follow them to this country:
The problem with family-reunion immigration is not that the partners are an economic burden on the country, ...Read More...
Posted on 10/13/2011 2:43 PM by Mary Jackson
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