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A Muslim Reformer on the Mosque
The warriors for tolerance and the antimosque crusaders are both wrong.
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By IRSHAD MANJI
Debates across America over Islamic centers and mosques won’t soon be resolved. But this summer’s hysteria is giving the upper hand to one nefarious force: the culture of offense.
Election-year politics, ratings-hungry media and deep personal fear [...]
La guerre, déficitaire? Mon oeil!
La mosquée: une éthique myope
August 20, 2010 12:00 A.M.
Moral Myopia at Ground Zero
Supporters of the mosque fail to see its true significance.
It’s hard to be an Obama sycophant these days. Your hero delivers a Ramadan speech roundly supporting the building of a mosque and Islamic center at Ground Zero in New York. Your heart [...]
Ce qui arrive quand on n’est pas eXcentriste, mais seulement extrémiste
We remember
Marteau-choucroute ne va pas à la mosquée
August 13, 2010 12:00 A.M.
Sacrilege at Ground Zero
Even Mayor Bloomberg acknowledges that the rules are different when it comes to sacred places.
A place is made sacred by a widespread belief that it was visited by the miraculous or the transcendent (Lourdes, the Temple Mount), by the presence there once of [...]
Démocrates et Républicains
Pour James 3
Islamisme et nazisme: des phénomènes modernes
In our present Age of the Zipped Lip, you are supposed to avoid making any of the following inconvenient observations about the history and doctrines of the Islamist movement:
You are not supposed to observe that Islamism is a modern, instead of an ancient, political tendency, which arose in a spirit of fraternal [...]
Les Bleus font l’unanimité
Et la deuxième équipe française, l’Algerie (17 Français sur 23 selectionnés), est éliminée aussi… GO, USA, GO !
Even the French Hate the French
Les Bleus Prompt a Rare Reaction After the World Cup: Universal Loathing
By DARREN EVERSON
BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa—You really have to hand it to the French. No team at the World Cup got the world’s [...]
Le Prince Charles à cheval sur ses deux dadas
Le futur chef de l’Eglise Anglicane recommande à ses ouailles écolos de suivre les règles islamiques pour défendre la planète… Et moi je recommande à tous les hommes et les femmes de bonne volonté de faire une petite prière pour qu’Elisabeth II vivent encore une bonne trentaine d’années…
‘Follow the Islamic way to save the [...]
La Turquie doit s’excuser
Michael Rubin examine l’histoire récente et moins récente de la Turquie et reprend les arguments invoqués par le gouvernement turc pour critiquer et demander des excuses à Israel.
Turkey Should Apologize
By Michael Rubin
Namik Tan, Turkey’s ambassador to the United States, published an op-ed this past weekend in the Washington Post arguing that Israel owes Turkey [...]
The Terror Finance Flotilla
The Terror Finance Flotilla
The convoy of ships allegedly trying to bring aid to the Gaza Strip was organized by a group belonging to an officially designated terrorist organization.
BY Jonathan Schanzer
The Turkish organizers of the Gaza Strip-bound flotilla that was boarded this morning by Israeli commandos knew well in advance that their vessels would never reach [...]
Liberal American Jews and Israel
Peter Beinart and the Destruction of Liberal Zionism
Noah Pollak
In political debates, it remains true that the messenger usually matters more than the message. I say this because Peter Beinart’s much-discussed essay in the New York Review of Books and the reaction to it has been in substance merely a procession of the kind [...]
Saving hundreds of millions of lives
Norman Borlaug, again.
« AS DAWN broke over northern Mexico, Norman Borlaug wriggled from his sleeping bag. Rats had run over him all night, and he was cold. In a corner of the dilapidated research station where he had tried to sleep, he found a rusting plough. He took it outside, strapped the harness to himself, and [...]
Tell him I’ll see him in Hell
Schumpeter again, The Future in his bones
« THERE is something about business that prevents most people from seeing straight. The rise of modern business provoked relentless criticism. Anthony Trollope featured a fraudulent railway company in “The Way We Live Now” (1875). Upton Sinclair dwelt on “the inferno of exploitation” in Chicago’s meat packing industry in “The [...]
World she made
The life and views of Ayn Rand
Capitalism’s martyred hero
The Economist Oct 22nd 2009
Most intellectuals don’t have much time for Ayn Rand with her “glare that could wilt a cactus”. But her uncompromising views are still worshipped by many
Ayn Rand and the World She Made, Anne Heller, Nan A. Talese, 2009
Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the [...]
Sittingbull
« While Custer divided his forces, Sitting Bull consolidated. Ever since his boyhood the Indian chief had been renowned for a methodical manner. His intimates nicknamed him “Slow”. »
Rassurant
Comme le disaient Marx et Engels dans le Manifeste, dès 1848, le capitalisme a un gros avantage, c’est qu’il finit par tout dissoudre, des croyances et des traditions passées, « dans les eaux froides du calcul égoïste ».
« The battle against religious extremism, writes Mr Nasr, will be won by the rising Muslim middle class. Change will come [...]
The urge to get a car is poison to the human soul
Wheels of revolution, The Economist, 28 Nov. 2009
« An example of socialist production principles—but not a good one
SELDOM, since the day Adolf Hitler gave the order to produce the Volkswagen, has a car been given such an explicitly ideological mission. But the vehicles that roll, occasionally, off the production line at Venirauto’s factory, west of Caracas, [...]