By Selwyn Duke
It was in 2015 that Muslim refugee Dr. Mudar Zahran warned of the “soft Islamic conquest of the West.” Zahran was referring to the wave migration affecting Europe, which ultimately saw millions more Muslims enter the Continent. Now, a decade later, an ex-Muslim sounds the same alarm here in America. In fact, she says, operational in the U.S. is a decades-old, clearly stated plan for civilizational jihad.
Only, like sheep to the slaughter, most Americans are unaware of it.
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By Selwyn Duke
“Skepticism has never lasted two generations,” said G.K. Chesterton in a 1931 debate with Scopes “Monkey Trial” lawyer Clarence Darrow.
“The first generation laughs at the Bible,” goes a later elaboration on the idea. The “second questions the laughter; the third weeps because there is nothing left to laugh at.”
And then, because pain like surprise opens eyes, people may see their way to finding faith again.
This is happening, too, in our time, with many younger people — particularly men — in the U.S. and U.K. embracing Christianity. What’s more, even some “intellectuals” are coming to God. It’s all quite contrary to Darrow’s debate prediction that, under the “light” of science and reason, religion would fade away.
In fact, demographers inform that the world will become not less but more religious in the coming decades. The only question is: Will the now secular West become part of this or be left in the dust of materialism?
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By Selwyn Duke
Here’s a question: How much replication do we need in government?
How many levels of government must we have doing the same thing — and sometimes conflicting with each other?
How many captains should there be on a ship?
This could come to mind when pondering, oh, let’s say, the United States Department of Education (DoE). Efforts to eliminate it are met with resistance, but how many realize that it’s just one out of about 1,200?
That’s right. Considering federal, state, county, city, and town education departments, there are approximately 1,150-1,200 coast to coast. Given this, if we nixed a quarter of them, let alone one, would they really be missed? Well, quite a number of Americans certainly wouldn’t miss the DoE, and one of them is comedian and commentator Bill Maher.
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By Selwyn Duke
Et tu, Mayberry?
Just recently I took a couple of friends to visit old hinterland haunts in upstate N.Y., places I used to visit on vacation or when house sitting. At issue are one-horse towns in rural Delaware County, which went for President Trump in last year’s election by almost 60 percent. It’s not the kind of place you’d expect to find an ex-Catholic church painted lavender-purple (pictures below) and flying the Jolly Roger “Pride” flag. But there it is, right on St. Hwy. 30 in the bucolic little Town of Roxbury, N.Y.
By Selwyn Duke
“The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to make a profit,” wrote labor leader Samuel Gompers. This is also the sentiment with which economist and professor Mark Skousen opened a recent article. In it he urges readers to “share the wealth,” not “redistribute it.” And Skousen discourages the current embrace of democratic socialism, but at the same time touts something else: democratic capitalism.
(Note: A better name is “economic freedom” because the term “capitalism” polls badly. This is no surprise, either: It was originated by socialists to demonize economic freedom, which they aimed to destroy.)
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By Selwyn Duke
Word has it that the Democrats, divided between their progressive and “moderate” (read: only somewhat radical) wings and tired of having extremism lose them elections, are making changes designed to deliver 2026 and ’28 victory. Oh, it’s not a Road to Damascus moment, but a “Road to Just Ask Us” moment. That is, they’re polling voters and are claiming to actually want to respond to their wants and needs.
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By Selwyn Duke
It was in 2005 that I wrote about the “dehumanizing of men.” A half-decade earlier, the book The War Against Boys by Christina Hoff Sommers was published. Yet the anti-male spirit of the age marched on, and now the consequences are painfully apparent. In fact and in a way, young men today are going a sort of sex-specific Galt.
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By Selwyn Duke
Meet Piri Katz, a strong supporter of a man whom she, at 98, can call “kid.” That man would be President Donald Trump. Katz may, too, have some choice words for those who’d impugn Trump as a “Nazi,” “Hitler,” or even just “authoritarian.” You see, Piri actually lived, and suffered, under Nazi tyranny, having been thrust into WWII concentration camps.
Piri’s story is a moving one of survival, but it also raises an issue. Since many people will say “Never again,” where does the threat of 21st-century tyranny really lie? And if history doesn’t exactly repeat itself but does rhyme, who today reflects Hitler- or Stalin-like despotism?
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By Selwyn Duke
“Granting asylum to the persecuted is legitimate,” said a French politician recently. But “our uncontrolled immigration policy now leads us to welcome their executioners [too].”
Unfortunately for a man named Ashur Sarnaya, a 45-year-old Assyrian Christian, he became a case in point. He and his family managed to escape Islamic State jihadist terror in Iraq in 2014, finding refuge in France.
Or so they thought.
Because the wheelchair-bound Sarnaya didn’t escape jihadist terror in his new home.
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By Selwyn Duke
Approximately seven years ago I mentioned to a young man I know, who was about 19, that communist governments have killed perhaps 100 million people. His eyes got wide as he registered shock.
He had no idea.
Note, too, that this fellow lived in an affluent suburb, had attended “good” government schools, and had basically conservative parents.
He had no idea.
No wonder socialism, and even communism, are again becoming popular among the young.
But Florida seeks to remedy this, finally. Its government plans to include in its school curricula, including in kindergarten, enhanced lessons about the evils of communism.
Not everyone is happy about this, though. In fact, one critic, using an old tactic, claimed that much of the proposed curriculum is “straight up John Birch talking points.”
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