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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
by Thomas J. Scheff |
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Here are the Blogs in the Hugh Fitzgerald category.
Tuesday, 24 April 2012
Shakespeare's Physick, A True Tale
A few weeks ago I made a resolution. I would re-read three of the last four plays of Shakespeare -- Cymbeline, A Winter's Tale, even Pericles with all its signs of divers hands -- and so I found my Arden editions, and piled them expectantly in the bedroom.
Last night, the night of April 23, ...Read More...
Posted on 04/24/2012 9:18 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Tuesday, 24 April 2012
Dance To The Music Of Time For, In Syria, The Beat Goes On
Blast rocks central Damascus
From CNN:
April 24, 2012
(CNN) -- Reports of carnage and widespread violence in Syria continue to grow despite the U.N. Security Council's agreement to boost the number of monitors in the country.
A huge explosion rocked central Damascus on Tuesday, ...Read More...
Posted on 04/24/2012 1:03 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Tuesday, 24 April 2012
Who Is More An Organic Part Of The West, Who Is Militarily More Useful -- Turkey, Or Israel?
Turkey says Israel not welcome at NATO summit
Mon, Apr 23 2012
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey has refused to allow Israel to take part in a NATO summit next month because the Jewish state has not apologized for the 2010 killing of Turkish activists in a raid on a ship taking aid to Palestinians, a ...Read More...
Posted on 04/24/2012 7:13 AM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Monday, 23 April 2012
A Musical Interlude: Don't Be Like That (Harry Reser Band, voc.Tom Stacks)
Posted on 04/23/2012 9:18 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Monday, 23 April 2012
The Madness Continues: A Ten-Year "Strategic Partnership" With Afghanistan
When the Framers gave primary power over the conduct of foreign affairs to the Executive branch, they could not have, and did not, foresee, that members of that branch -- demonstrating their generosity not with their own money, but with that of the citizenry -- would so heedlessly promise so much. It's ...Read More...
Posted on 04/23/2012 6:55 AM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Sunday, 22 April 2012
Wall St. Journal Fails To Grasp What Explains Support For Marine Le Pen
Excerpt from an editorial comment on the first round of the French election in the Wall St. Journal, that routinely pooh-poohs worries about Muslim (and other) immigration, because for those in charge at the Wall St. Journal, nothing matters but the economic side of things, man as homo economicus, for ...Read More...
Posted on 04/22/2012 7:43 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Sunday, 22 April 2012
Burak Bekdil On Gunter Grass And The "Occupation" Of Jerusalem
From Hurriyet (Turkey):
The Nazi teen and the occupation of Jerusalem
The German Nobel literature laureate Günter Grass’s latest poem “What Must Be Said” is hardly original in its stereotypical, anti-Israeli intellectual romanticism. It reminded me of Nicky Larkin, an ...Read More...
Posted on 04/22/2012 7:14 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Sunday, 22 April 2012
Islam, Interest, And Self-Interest
From Middle East Online:
Qatar lends Tunisia $500 million with interest
Tunisia's Central Bank says loan - at interest rate of 2.5% will be repaid all at once in five years.
Middle East Online
The ...Read More...
Posted on 04/22/2012 6:51 AM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Friday, 20 April 2012
A Musical Interlude: Goodnight Sweetheart (Al Bowlly)
Posted on 04/20/2012 9:12 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Thursday, 19 April 2012
Iranian Diplomat's "Cultural Misunderstanding"
From BBC News:
Iranian diplomat accused of Brazil child molestation
Brazilian Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota is asking Iran to clarify the alleged incident
Brazil says it will seek an explanation from Iran after an Iranian diplomat was accused of molesting underage girls at a swimming pool ...Read More...
Posted on 04/19/2012 10:21 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Thursday, 19 April 2012
One More Reason To Leave -- Quick March --Tarbaby Afghanistan
Russia slams NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan
Fox News - 19 minutes ago
BRUSSELS - Russia's foreign minister sharply criticized NATO's plan to withdraw its forces from Afghanistan by 2014, saying Thursday that ...Read More...
Posted on 04/19/2012 8:52 AM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Saturday, 14 April 2012
A Musical Interlude: If They Ever Had An Income Tax On Love (Ambrose Orch., voc. Sam Browne)
Posted on 04/14/2012 8:45 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Friday, 13 April 2012
A Musical Interlude: I'm In The Mood For Love (Little Jack Little & His Orchestra)
Posted on 04/13/2012 8:30 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Friday, 13 April 2012
GCC Unhappy With Iranian Visit To Those Disputed Islands In The (Persian, Arabian) Gulf
From Agence France-Press:
Gulf states to meet on Iran-UAE island row
13 April 2012
The UAE recalled its envoy to Tehran to protest Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit on Thursday to a disputed island. (Reuters)
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By ...Read More...
Posted on 04/13/2012 8:22 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Friday, 13 April 2012
It's Show Trial Time, Or, The Zimmerman Post And Telegram
Harvard Prof. Alan Dershowitz: Zimmerman Arrest Affidavit ‘Irresponsible And Unethical’
by Noah Rothman April 12th, 2012
» 615 comments
Harvard University law professor Alan Dershowitz appeared on MSNBC’s Hardball where fill-in host Michel Smerconish asked him ...Read More...
Posted on 04/13/2012 12:55 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Monday, 9 April 2012
A Musical Interlude: What'll I Do (Frank Sinatra)
Posted on 04/09/2012 2:37 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Sunday, 8 April 2012
Martin Sherman: The Two-Staters As Flat-Earthers
From the Jerusalem Post:
April 6, 2012
Two states, ‘secure borders’ and the tooth fairy
By MARTIN SHERMAN
As time goes by and events consistently refute their dogmatic doctrine, "two-staters" are looking more and more like “flat-earthers.”
Photo: Yehoar ...Read More...
Posted on 04/08/2012 6:07 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Sunday, 8 April 2012
Pierluigi Battista On The Diseased Sympathies Of Gunter Grass
From corriere.it:
Pierluigi Battista 5 aprile 2012
Grass, l'indignazione a senso unico
Una poesia contro lo Stato d’Israele, accusato di minacciare la pace nel mondo
Günter Grass è sempre stato un magnifico pierre di se stesso. Per decenni ha incarnato nella Germania occidentale ...Read More...
Posted on 04/08/2012 9:12 AM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Saturday, 7 April 2012
A Short Cinematic Interlude: What Watch? (from Casablanca)
Posted on 04/07/2012 9:07 AM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Saturday, 7 April 2012
Kirill Caught, Or, Vernij Nash Breget, Or, What Watch?
Vernij Nash Breget, Or, The Truth Will Out Or, Watchman, What Of The Light?
We are all familiar with the doctored photos of Old Bolsheviks standing beside Lenin in the pre-mausoleum period of his existence, photos in which those who stood between Lenin and Stalin have been airbrushed out, and Stalin ...Read More...
Posted on 04/07/2012 8:24 AM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Tuesday, 3 April 2012
That Hopeless Mess in Awful Afghanistan
From TIME:
Afghanistan: A Bleak Report from the Front
By Mark Thompson | @MarkThompson_DC | April 2, 2012 | 9
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Marine General John Allen, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, was here in Washington two weeks ago saying the U.S. and the Afghan government are making progress in ...Read More...
Posted on 04/03/2012 2:44 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Tuesday, 3 April 2012
What's Islam Got To Do With It?
REWARDS FOR JUSTICE LIST
Ayman al-Zawahiri: $25m
Mullah Omar: $10m
Hafiz Saeed: $10m
Abu Du'a: $10m
Yasin al-Suri: $10m
Hakimullah Mehsud: $5m
Jamal Mohammad al-Badawi: $5m
Sirajuddun Haqqani: $5m
Wali-ur Rahman: $5m
Hafiz Abdul Rahman Makki: $2m
...Read More...
Posted on 04/03/2012 2:02 AM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Monday, 2 April 2012
Yvan Rioufol On Merah, Muslims, And Those French Who Refuse To Look At France Steadily And Whole
From lefigaro.fr:
Bloc-notes : voici pourquoi il y a urgence à regarder la France en face
Par Ivan Rioufol le 30 mars 2012 | 580 commentaires
Non, la tuerie perpétrée à Montauban et à Toulouse par Mohamed Merah, 23 ans, n'est ...Read More...
Posted on 04/02/2012 10:05 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Monday, 2 April 2012
A Cinematic Musical Interlude: At The Codfish Ball (Shirley Temple, Buddy Ebsen)
Posted on 04/02/2012 9:34 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Sunday, 1 April 2012
A Musical Interlude: A Hundred Years From Today (Jack Teagarden)
Posted on 04/01/2012 8:19 AM by Hugh Fitzgerald
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