Category: Islam
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By Selwyn Duke Here’s a good question: What’s the point in sending the military to the Mideast to defend the West while also bringing the Mideast to the West? One man who may nod approvingly at this question is commentator Glenn Beck. After all, in 1999 he predicted blood in Manhattan’s streets within 10 years…
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By Selwyn Duke A huge study out of Germany, released in 2010 but now mostly forgotten, provided a serious point to ponder. After researching 45,000 youths, it found that with increasing religiosity Christian young people became less violent. But Muslim youths became, with increasing religiosity, more violent. My, even a relativist could get the nagging and nauseating…
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By Selwyn Duke Tradition is, noted philosopher G.K. Chesterton, “democracy extended through time.” It also is something else: under assault in the West. And Britain, in particular, is going nuclear on its time-honored and -dictated traditions. In fact, it seems every week there’s another story about how the U.K. is trashing its culture. This is,…
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By Selwyn Duke In 1968, British politician Enoch Powell warned that the U.K.’s immigration policies were akin to “watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.” They would ensure the demographic transformation of British cities, he predicted. He later warned of “civil war,” too. In reaction, Powell was expelled from the…
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By Selwyn Duke “The dog is man’s best friend” the saying goes. Why, we humans argue about most everything, notes website History and Headlines. “If there is one thing most people agree on, though, it is dogs,” it continues. “How can you not love them?” Maybe one Nerdeen Kiswani can answer that question. After all, Kiswani,…
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By Selwyn Duke Imagine that Montana imported close to 400,000 Third World migrants, the equivalent of a medium-sized city such as Arlington, Texas, in just one year. Would that be a good idea? Could you foresee any problems with assimilation and manifold other issues? This question is apropos here because this is precisely what a…
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By Selwyn Duke While it was contrary to our Founders’ warning to avoid entangling alliances and European wars, we certainly can understand why NATO was created in 1949. The USSR, which President Ronald Reagan would later rightly call an “evil empire,” appeared a burgeoning force. Ensuring his post-WWII domination of Eastern Europe, Soviet despot Joseph…
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By Selwyn Duke “Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose,” noted Austrian psychiatrist/philosopher Viktor Frankl. Much has been written about the need for meaning, in recent years especially. Without it, a person can descend into a morass of addiction, degradation, and self-destruction. The same, however, is true…
