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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 Mary Jackson category.
Friday, 3 February 2012
The Corrections
For the second time I take my red pen to a piece of anodyne reporting about Islam, this time from the well-intentioned but essentially clueless Harry's Place. That site regularly reports on Muslims behaving badly but labours, laboriously, under the misapprehension that this bad behaviour has nothing ...Read More...
Posted on 02/03/2012 1:45 PM by Mary Jackson
Monday, 30 January 2012
The Colo(u)r Purple
David Cameron fights the good fight against racism. From Newsbiscuit:
With allegations of racism hitting the headlines at an exponential rate, the government has acted to eliminate all prejudices based on skin colour with a sweeping, nationwide initiative. Beginning in the summer of this year, the ...Read More...
Posted on 01/30/2012 7:01 AM by Mary Jackson
Sunday, 29 January 2012
Jonathan Meades on vegetablists
For my views on vegetablists and other pointless persons see here. As for Jonathan Meades, he needs to get off the fence and tell us what he really thinks:
...Read More...
Posted on 01/29/2012 12:09 PM by Mary Jackson
Saturday, 28 January 2012
The Corrections
Apologies to Jonathan Franzen for nicking his book title for a new regular column. We are not in the same business, so there is no tort of passing off, although I refuse to rule out the lesser tort of pissing off. Every now and again, perhaps weekly, I will be taking an article from the mainstream press ...Read More...
Posted on 01/28/2012 8:50 AM by Mary Jackson
Saturday, 28 January 2012
When did you last see your farther?
Further or farther, which would you rather? I always thought there was some significance in the distinction between "further" and "farther" that I hadn't grasped. Nothing could be further - but perhaps not farther - from the truth. Dot Wordsworth furthers our understanding in ...Read More...
Posted on 01/28/2012 8:44 AM by Mary Jackson
Saturday, 28 January 2012
Hello sailor
Those Navy Seals are getting a little too clubbable. Common language division alert from The Telegraph (thanks to Esmerelda for finding this gem):
Documents released by the Pentagon show that the military is urgently refitting the USS Ponce, a 1960s transport ship, so that it can accommodate the speed ...Read More...
Posted on 01/28/2012 8:36 AM by Mary Jackson
Friday, 27 January 2012
Tea realms?
Is Charles Moore onto something? Is the Pope a Catholic?
Reading Anne Somerset’s excellent new biography of Queen Anne, I found myself returning to some of the most famous lines of Pope. In ‘The Rape of the Lock’, he says, ‘Here thou, great Anna, whom three realms obey,/ Doth ...Read More...
Posted on 01/27/2012 12:56 PM by Mary Jackson
Thursday, 26 January 2012
Pseudsday Thursday
Don't get me wrong -- I like "Because the Night". But sometimes a singer should shut up and sing. And a writer should just shut up. Cheers, Luc Sante:
The system (Patti) Smith bled from language was an oracular nonstop cavalcade of words hurled like sixteenth notes, powered by a rhythm ...Read More...
Posted on 01/26/2012 2:39 PM by Mary Jackson
Wednesday, 25 January 2012
Pseudsday Tuesday (on a Wednesday)
What in Heaven's name -- or Hell's -- is an Agape Restaurant? Something like a Happy Eater, where the diner was always mouth agape, ready and waiting for the grub to drop in?
Not at all. For best-selling brainbox Alain de Botton, who just happens to be a multi-millionaire, nourishment is ...Read More...
Posted on 01/25/2012 11:35 AM by Mary Jackson
Sunday, 22 January 2012
Boko Haram, not to be confused ...
Posted on 01/22/2012 7:28 AM by Mary Jackson
Friday, 20 January 2012
Dozy bint of the week
The Guardian reports on a new course at the now not-so-new University of East Anglia on Women, Islam and the Media. The course is run by this week's dozy bint, Elyem Akatav. Since The Guardian approves, one can imagine the line that this course will take -- violence against women isn't happening, ...Read More...
Posted on 01/20/2012 8:55 AM by Mary Jackson
Thursday, 19 January 2012
Grammar schools would put us in Premier League
In Britain, you can be too clever by half, but there is no such thing as too sporty by half, writes Allison Pearson in The Telegraph:
Is Stephen Twigg out of his tree? The shadow education secretary is trying to get Liberal Democrat MPs to join Labour in fighting a change in national admission rules ...Read More...
Posted on 01/19/2012 4:51 AM by Mary Jackson
Wednesday, 18 January 2012
Upstairs Downstairs Abbey
Posted on 01/18/2012 1:49 PM by Mary Jackson
Wednesday, 18 January 2012
Unknown unknown
If you go to Wikipedia today, you will see this:
For now you can cheat by looking at the cached version or the French version, but what if Wikipedia disappears altogether? It will be like the old days when nobody knew anything.
...Read More...
Posted on 01/18/2012 10:31 AM by Mary Jackson
Tuesday, 17 January 2012
Ayah on the bay'ah
And Allah knows best. The Little Book of Hadith from Khalifah:
Al-Bukhari narrated from ‘Ubadah bin As-Samit (ra) who said, "We were with the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم in an assembly and he صلى الله عليه وسلم said, ‘Give me the bay'ah on condition that you do not associate anything ...Read More...
Posted on 01/17/2012 1:29 PM by Mary Jackson
Tuesday, 17 January 2012
Oh for God's sake
From the BBC:
Radical cleric Abu Qatada has won his appeal against deportation to Jordan.
The European Court of Human Rights said that the preacher could not be removed from the UK because of Jordan's record on torture.
The Strasbourg judges accepted that the UK's deal with Jordan over treatment ...Read More...
Posted on 01/17/2012 3:43 AM by Mary Jackson
Thursday, 12 January 2012
Waterstones unturned
What next? "Book's for sale"? The Telegraph reports on another crime of apostrophe, not mentioned in the Qur'an (h'at t'ip' Esmerelda):
The chain has been known as Waterstone’s since it was founded in 1982 by entrepreneur Tim Waterstone.
However the retailer’s ...Read More...
Posted on 01/12/2012 5:12 AM by Mary Jackson
Tuesday, 10 January 2012
Pseudsday Tuesday
New English Review operated for several years without any discernible mission statement, and to date has no diversity officer. Worst of all, I fear that it has no "intellectual enzyme" to call its own. John Noughton writes in The Observer about another John, the latchet of whose shoes he is ...Read More...
Posted on 01/10/2012 8:25 AM by Mary Jackson
Tuesday, 10 January 2012
Blue feminists
I doubt Erica Jong would see Blue Feminists as a corrective to those hapless, zipless Pink Men. Nevertheless, and despite the fact that in America blue seems to be red and red blue, Blue Feminists are the new black. Christina Odone in The Telegraph:
I loved the old sketch in which a waiter takes Margaret ...Read More...
Posted on 01/10/2012 7:53 AM by Mary Jackson
Sunday, 8 January 2012
Oblong
In a short story by Julian Barnes, a limner -- now that's a word you don't hear very often -- talks about using a large canvas on which to paint his mare. The canvas would be the same size as that used for a local dignitary, but "turned to make an oblong".
I know what he means -- ...Read More...
Posted on 01/08/2012 1:22 PM by Mary Jackson
Sunday, 8 January 2012
Pseudsday Psunday
"J.C." of the TLS, sadly behind the apartheid paywall, draws attention to the Larkin Press. "You can ... ask yourself," he writes, "a cautionary question about referring to the thing that mattered most to Larkin in terms like these":
The result for The University will ...Read More...
Posted on 01/08/2012 10:38 AM by Mary Jackson
Sunday, 8 January 2012
Black and white and red all over
There are two kinds of people in the world: people who are allowed to say that there are people who like to divide and rule ... and white people. (That's probably three or four kinds of you count the divided and ruled, but counting is such Eurocentric activity.) If Labour MP Diane Abbott had been ...Read More...
Posted on 01/08/2012 10:21 AM by Mary Jackson
Wednesday, 4 January 2012
Milking a murder
Whenever I hear the word "racist", my estimate of the speaker's IQ drops by around 50 points. The word has been so grievously misapplied, not least to critics of Islam. I therefore greeted the conviction of black student Stephen Lawrence's murderers with a king-sized yawn. This murder ...Read More...
Posted on 01/04/2012 1:49 PM by Mary Jackson
Wednesday, 4 January 2012
In Memoriam: Ronald Searle
So farewell, then, Ronald
Searle. Unusually Repulsive
Cat startled
By a gesture of affection
That was one of your best
© E. J. Throbb, aged 17¾
© Ronald Searle, ageless, timeless
...Read More...
Posted on 01/04/2012 1:39 PM by Mary Jackson
Friday, 30 December 2011
State of the EUnion
Supporters of the Euro, and - because one is not possible without the other - a pan-European superstate, have been proved spectacularly wrong. David Aaronovich is among them, but will he admit it? Will he Hanover. Instead, he tries to be funny but fails. Daniel Hannan picks up on his Times post, which ...Read More...
Posted on 12/30/2011 7:27 AM by Mary Jackson
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