Is Paul Sperry a conspiracy theorist? The author of “Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives Have Penetrated Washington” has now come up with a large piece for the NYP, where he argues at great length that Huma Abedin, the deputy chairlady of Hillary Clinton's campaign team, supports radical Islam. The author cites her decade as employee for ( Read more... )

Hi, ma'fellow procrastinators reasonable honesty-loving folks! We may've heard of Erdogan's attempts to actively influence the political discourse and the level of free speech in Germany by demanding that a satirical depiction of His Greatness be removed from the press, lest he unleash the hordes of refugees onto Europe again (and indirectly ( Read more... )

Greetings, ma'fellow indifferent procrastinators concerned citizens of the world! First of all, Im'ma throw this in here:

Richard Dawkins says 9/11 hijackers weren't evil, prompts angry response from religious right

First off, the right-wing, quite predictably, seem to have (intentionally?) misunderstood what he was actually saying. To me it reads ( Read more... )

Copenhagen shooting: One dead in deadly seminar attack

"Denmark is on high alert after a gunman in Copenhagen killed one person and injured three at a free speech debate attended by a Swedish cartoonist."

Leaving aside the curious fact that there haven't been too many Charlie Hebdo-style protest marches after this one (perhaps people do really ( Read more... )

What is that thing that looks like ISIL, quacks like ISIL, but is not ISIL? Well, you may have already guessed it, that is Boko Haram. They have proclaimed their own Caliphate too, but in the north-eastern parts of Nigeria. They also shock with their cruelty, which is escalating every next year. Although Nigeria is Africa's biggest economy and one ( Read more... )

Hey ma'fellow indifferent armchair-dwellers reasonable folks who care about freedom and peace almost as much as I do! Now that a week has passed since the act of barbarism in Paris which was instantly branded by some smartheads (and politicians) "a clash of civilizations", perhaps it's time to sit back a little and assess things a bit more soberly ( Read more... )

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Could a piece of fiction cause a hatred so strong that would lead to mass killings? The bloody attack in Paris leaving scores of dead innocents will probably add even more dramatism to the vision of one Michel Houellebecq of France as a possible future Islamic republic...


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For decades, the Arab civilization has been going backwards, to finally reach its current bottom. There's chaos and tyranny reigning throughout the Arab world, and political Islam has nothing to do with popular representation. Generations of Arabs have let themselves be manipulated by various nationalists, socialists and Islamists, who've always ( Read more... )