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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
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Here are the Blogs in the Artemis Gordon Glidden category.
Friday, 22 April 2011
Scientific Humor Interlude
What do you call (theoretical physicist) Peter Higgs' wife?
A boson's mate.
...Read More...
Posted on 04/22/2011 2:30 PM by Artemis Gordon Glidden
Friday, 22 April 2011
'Pakistan rape case acquittal seen as setback to women's rights'
After five years, an update to this story. The update was as horrible as it was inevitable. By Issam Ahmed for Christian Science Monitor:
Lahore, Pakistan – Five out of six men convicted of gang-raping a Pakistani woman were acquitted by Pakistan's Supreme Court on Thursday, ...Read More...
Posted on 04/22/2011 1:00 PM by Artemis Gordon Glidden
Saturday, 16 April 2011
Iraqi jailed in Arizona for 34 years in daughter's killing
By Tim Gaynor and David Schwartz for Reuters:
PHOENIX (Reuters) – An Arizona judge on Friday sentenced an Iraqi immigrant to 34-1/2 years in jail for murder and assault charges including killing his daughter by running her down with a Jeep because she had become too Westernized.
Faleh ...Read More...
Posted on 04/16/2011 2:12 PM by Artemis Gordon Glidden
Saturday, 16 April 2011
Arabic second-most common Australian tongue
From AFP:
SYDNEY (AFP) – Arabic is the most commonly spoken language after English by young people in Australia, a study has revealed, with about one in eight multilingual children using it in the home.
The Australia Early Development Index, a government-backed study of more than 260,000 ...Read More...
Posted on 04/16/2011 12:36 AM by Artemis Gordon Glidden
Friday, 15 April 2011
It's not too late to compound our errors
While Hugh is advocating reducing the number of weapons available to the camp of Islam in Libya, Angel Rabasa (B.A and Ph.D in history from Harvard, Knox Fellow at St. Antony's College at Oxford, and author of "The Lessons of Mumbai" (2009), "Radical Islam in East Africa" (2009) ...Read More...
Posted on 04/15/2011 10:40 PM by Artemis Gordon Glidden
Friday, 15 April 2011
Palindromic Interlude
Posted on 04/15/2011 9:55 PM by Artemis Gordon Glidden
Thursday, 14 April 2011
Ten die in attack on Afghan elders
I don't yet see any mention of this attack in U.S. news sources. From the Iranian government IRIB news agency:
Ten people were killed Wednesday as a suicide bomber blew himself up at a gathering of tribal elders in eastern Afghanistan's Kunar province, interior ministry spokesman Zemarai ...Read More...
Posted on 04/14/2011 12:38 AM by Artemis Gordon Glidden
Wednesday, 13 April 2011
More evidence about the disturbed and disturbing Rio shooter
An update to the story of Wellington Oliveira, whom Esmerelda and Rebecca wrote about previously. By Juliana Barbassa for AP:
RIO DE JANEIRO – Two days before Wellington Oliveira walked into his former school and shot 12 students to death, he recorded a video in which he rambles in an ...Read More...
Posted on 04/13/2011 10:28 PM by Artemis Gordon Glidden
Wednesday, 13 April 2011
AP: 'Reprisals rock Ivory Coast after strongman deposed'
It seems like it was just yesterday that we were told that "The nightmare is over for the people of Ivory Coast". By Michelle Faul for AP:
GUIGLO, Ivory Coast – The young man in civilian clothes didn't have the right answers for troops loyal to Alassane Ouattara and ...Read More...
Posted on 04/13/2011 1:55 AM by Artemis Gordon Glidden
Monday, 11 April 2011
Universe set right as Muslim leader is installed in Côte d'Ivoire by UN
Some quotes from this AP story about today's forcible overthrow by France and the UN of Christian Laurent Gbagbo in favor of Muslim Alassane Ouattara:
More than a million civilians fled their homes and untold numbers were killed over the course of the power struggle that threatened to re-ignite ...Read More...
Posted on 04/11/2011 9:39 PM by Artemis Gordon Glidden
Wednesday, 6 April 2011
African migrants, turned away by Italy, abused in Gaddafi's Libya
By Stephen Faris for Time:
The young Eritrean woman was exhausted, famished and dehydrated after spending four days in March lost in the Mediterranean Sea. She had been on a fishing boat with nearly 300 African migrants, crammed so tightly that she couldn't move. But when Helen saw her rescuers, ...Read More...
Posted on 04/06/2011 1:47 AM by Artemis Gordon Glidden
Monday, 4 April 2011
In Libya, reporters are allowed to drop some of their faux naïveté
By Aryn Baker for Time:
A Mystery in Tripoli: Blood on the Street?
When gunfire breaks out in Tripoli, it pushes a city on edge into paroxysms of speculation and rumor. The gunfire was heard in the early hours of Thursday, and went on in staccato bursts for a little more than an hour. It took ...Read More...
Posted on 04/04/2011 4:26 PM by Artemis Gordon Glidden
Wednesday, 30 March 2011
...And in sports...
Even those who, like me, know absolutely nothing about cricket can take pleasure in India's win over Pakistan in the semi-finals of the World Cup.
...Read More...
Posted on 03/30/2011 11:36 PM by Artemis Gordon Glidden
Sunday, 27 March 2011
Libyan woman is brutally silenced after accusing Gaddafi's forces of rape
Although not as important geo-Islamically as Bahrain, Libya still has some instructive lessons for the kuffar. By Ian Black for the Guardian:
It was just another breakfast time at Tripoli's smart Rixos Al Nasr hotel, sleepy foreign journalists helping themselves to cereals, rolls and terrible ...Read More...
Posted on 03/27/2011 2:20 AM by Artemis Gordon Glidden
Sunday, 27 March 2011
Nouri al-Maliki states the obvious
While some try to convince us that the Saudi intervention in Bahrain is really no big deal, that it's just families helping families (and how bad could that be?), Nouri al-Maliki offers another point of view. The Shi'ite point of view. From Gulf Times in Qatar:
Iraq’s Prime ...Read More...
Posted on 03/27/2011 12:44 AM by Artemis Gordon Glidden
Saturday, 26 March 2011
Forgotten heroes of the anti-jihad: Ray McCann and Charles Gertsbacher
From the Cable Car Home Page:
Ray McCann was born in New York, but moved to San Francisco in 1969. He loved the city and served as one of its ambassadors when he went to work as a cable car gripman in 1979. During the Great Reconstruction in 1982-1984, he wrote Muni's first manual on operating ...Read More...
Posted on 03/26/2011 2:27 PM by Artemis Gordon Glidden
Wednesday, 23 March 2011
Officer: Loaded shotguns seized from Your Black Muslim Bakery compound
The sad, terrifying, stranger-than-fiction story of Your Black Muslim Bakery is hopefully drawing to a close. By Thomas Peele for the Contra Costa Times:
OAKLAND -- A police officer is testifying this morning in the murder trial of journalist Chauncey Bailey that he seized two loaded, ...Read More...
Posted on 03/23/2011 2:17 PM by Artemis Gordon Glidden
Monday, 21 March 2011
Bahrain king makes veiled charge against Iran
By Barbara Surk for AP:
MANAMA, Bahrain – Bahrain's king blamed a foreign plot for his nation's weeks-long unrest, using veiled language Monday to accuse Iran of fomenting an uprising by the Shiite majority in the Sunni-ruled island kingdom.
The Bahrain opposition's main demand ...Read More...
Posted on 03/21/2011 9:40 PM by Artemis Gordon Glidden
Monday, 21 March 2011
What we've naively stepped into in Libya
I found this explanation of the tribes of Libya to be a good starting point.
Be sure to also click on the map of the Berber tribes, which links to a description of the various Tuareg Berber confederacies and alliances.
Now, I'm not advocating that the U.S. State Department try to draw up ...Read More...
Posted on 03/21/2011 3:15 PM by Artemis Gordon Glidden
Monday, 21 March 2011
'Egyptians say yes to constitution'
The first spring blossoms of Egyptian democracy are on the vine, and the initial whiffs of fragrance are as fetid as expected. From the Gulf Times in Qatar:
A total of 41% or 18.5mn of the estimated 45mn eligible voters turned out on Saturday to seize their first taste of democracy, after ...Read More...
Posted on 03/21/2011 1:38 AM by Artemis Gordon Glidden
Monday, 21 March 2011
Police urged charging 6 who helped Rifqa Bary flee
By Andrew Welsh-Huggins for the Columbus Dispatch:
Police recommended charges against six of the people who helped a teenage Christian convert run away from her Muslim parents on the Northeast Side in 2009, an investigation by the Associated Press has found.
But prosecutors in Ohio and ...Read More...
Posted on 03/21/2011 12:52 AM by Artemis Gordon Glidden
Thursday, 17 March 2011
Azerbaijan threatens to down Armenian flights
Nagorno-Karabakh is another one of those murky fog-of-war hotspots in which, based on mainstream media coverage, it is impossible to figure out who is fighting whom, and why. Let's dispell some of that fog and murk: Azerbaijan is 99% Muslim, while Armenia is 98% Christian. As recently ...Read More...
Posted on 03/17/2011 2:33 AM by Artemis Gordon Glidden
Wednesday, 16 March 2011
'Blood money' frees CIA contractor in Pakistan
By Babar Dogar for AP:
LAHORE, Pakistan – A CIA contractor who shot and killed two Pakistani men was freed from prison on Wednesday after the United States paid $2.34 million in "blood money" to the victims' families, Pakistani officials said, defusing a dispute that had strained ...Read More...
Posted on 03/16/2011 12:51 PM by Artemis Gordon Glidden
Tuesday, 15 March 2011
'Why Bahrain is unlikely to turn into an Iran-Saudi battleground'
By Jackie Spinner for Christian Science Monitor:
Muscat, Oman – The intervention of Gulf forces to help put down Bahrain's pro-democracy uprising escalates an already dangerous situation but does not necessarily mean the entire region will be pulled into the conflict, say analysts and ...Read More...
Posted on 03/15/2011 11:29 PM by Artemis Gordon Glidden
Tuesday, 15 March 2011
Chilean-child-sacrifice-ophobia
As we watch events unfold in Japan after the recent earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown, and marvel at their social cohesion as they begin the process of recovery, we can compare with another culture's way of dealing with similar stressors in modern times.
From Time magazine, July 4, 1960:
Disaster ...Read More...
Posted on 03/15/2011 8:34 PM by Artemis Gordon Glidden
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