‘Occidentophobia’: The Elephant in the Room
“The West” is regularly seen as some combination of loss of moral values, imperialism and drone attacks — a description reminiscent of the Star Trek Borg species that assimilates into…
Cologne assault: Cultural difference is no excuse for rape
It pains me to agree with The Telegraph, but this opinion piece is spot on. There is no excuse for criminal behaviour – and certainly not a cultural one. The…
Yasmine Bahrani: It is time for Muslims to begin a deep self-examination-The Washington Post
It is time for Muslims to begin a deep self-examination-The Washington Post In the wake of the Paris bloodbath, the attacks in San Bernardino, Calif., and Bamako, Mali, and murders…
Anne Applebaum: How to Regain Control of Europe
This article is an updated version of an article written before the attacks. Objectively speaking, the unprecedented, bloody terrorist attacks in Paris on Source: How to Regain Control of Europe…
NYT: Terror From Europe’s Future Street
NYT: Terror From Europe’s Future Street The dangerous thing about this ISIS territory, the Caliphate’s embryo, is not so much its oil revenue, or its training facilities, or its proximity…
23/11/2015, Today – BBC Radio 4
General McChrystal, who led US special forces in Iraq speaks on BBC4 about the nature of the threat posed by ISIS and how we should respond – and how not…
Isis: In a borderless world, the days when we could fight foreign wars and be safe at home may be long gone | Middle East | News | The Independent
It could be a good analysis from Robert Fisk, and it contains many interesting insights: irrelevance of borders both ME and European ones, etc. However, Fisk, a long-time resident of…
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Islam Is a Religion of Violence | Foreign Policy
In the past few weeks, both Russia and the United States have escalated their military campaigns against the Islamic State. As the brutal jihadist group… Source: Islam Is a Religion…
The threat of Islamophobia
After every Islamist outrage, every atrocity, a lament goes up, bemoaning Islamophobia, as if it was a fact and a real threat. Then people forget, until the next outrage. In…
Brahma Chellaney: The Western Roots of Anti-Western Terror
Brahma Chellaney repeats, in the “The Western Roots of Anti-Western Terror“, the theory that all evil and disorder in today’s world stems invariably and unavoidably from western interventionism. As if…