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 the meantime, Islamophobia simply doesn’t […]
Religion
Abdennour Bidar: Lettre ouverte au monde musulman
A Muslim philosopher on the monster within Islam. English version. Time to start actually thinking, not just reacting. Trouble is that there are not many more voices like that. The solution can only come from inside […]
Tolerance and its excesses
Irrationality has its price. Irrational rejection and hatred of foreigners on one hand, unconditional and irrational love of strangers on the other. Instead of sitting down and discussing who deserves and truly needs our protection, […]
Riche et puissante, l’Église grecque échappe à l’austérité
Entretenue par l’État, l’Église refuse d’être taxée sur ses propriétés. Le torchon brûle avec le gouvernement. Source: Riche et puissante, l’Église grecque échappe à l’austérité
Atlantic: What ISIS really wants?
In The Atlantic Graeme Wood provides an extensive (and long: 29 pages) analysis of ISIS: http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2015/02/what-isis-really-wants/384980/ – best analysis I’ve seen so far on the subject.
Il faut des psychiatres pour comprendre le monde Arabe
Le comportement des musulmans fait penser à un complexe d’infériorité collectif. Quelles que soient ses motivations, même s’il n’y en a pas du tout, c’est un phénomène très dangereux: l’Allemagne après la 1ère guerre mondiale […]
You may consider adapting to your new home country (and tolerating its inhabitants)
Extreme religious practices tend to attract comments, perhaps sometimes unpleasant – but so do all sorts of behaviours and attires to which society is not used at the moment. It must be hell to have […]
Charlie: l’umma musulmane n’a pas à s’excuser, mais…
Ce n’est pas juste de demander à l’ensemble de l’umma musulmane de demander pardon ou de se désolidariser – mais s’ils ne participent pas à la lutte contre ces imbéciles criminels, on ne s’en sortira […]
Fouad Ajami on anti-western demonstrations in the Arab world
Looking at events in the Arab world, you have the impression that the whole region is fuelled by a gigantic inferiority complex – a dangerous condition, considering what it did to post-WWI Germany. This opinion […]
An investigation in Poland opens after 71 years
A story in the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza by Agnieszka Domanowska: “They were 15 to 30 years old. Jewish women from the ghetto in Szczuczyn. In August 1941 the locals “borrowed” them for gardening work. […]