Posts Tagged ‘Islam’
This isn’t a special relationship, it’s sinister and sycophantic
One of the first big strategic decisions made by David Cameron after his election as Conservative leader more than five years ago concerned the United States of America. Cameron claimed to have been t... Read More
MEMO re-publishes anti-Semite, and Amnesty STILL has no problem hosting the event
Shortly after I exposed Middle East Monitor Online (MEMO) columnist Khalid Amaryeh for calling someone a “kike”, and asked whether this disqualified the group from being hosted at Amnesty Interna... Read More
Osama bin Laden killing: Dismissing our enemies as lunatics will get us nowhere
Islamabad, Pakistan An elderly man of distinguished appearance approached me soon after I arrived in Abbottabad on the day of Osama bin Laden’s death. He spoke good English and said he was a lawyer.... Read More
What did Hillary Clinton see?
I’ve seen the photograph, bound to become iconic, of President Obama and other senior members of his administration watching the live video of Osama bin Laden’s killing. The image captures... Read More
How political correctness encouraged British-made Islamism
On the Today programme this morning, Justin Webb asked Kim Howells if he thought that the straitjacket of PC, the insistence that we never speak ill of other people’s cultures and habits, helped to ... Read More
Chill out – veiled women are only the Islamic equivalent of Young Fogeys
France’s ban on the niqab and burka is not only an outrageous attack on freedom of religion. It is also based on a fallacy: namely that the reason more young Muslim women in France and other Western... Read More
Pastor Terry Jones is no more to blame for the Afghan violence than Martin Scorsese was for the shooting of Ronald Reagan
The American pastor Terry Jones might be a bit of a weirdo with an unhealthy obsession with the Koran, but he’s right about one thing: he is not responsible for the fatal rioting in Afghanistan.... Read More
The BBC puts out two spurious reports about religion dying out, just before the Census. How strange
Now that’s funny. Just as we’re all about to fill in a Census, the most controversial issue of which is the question of religion, the BBC carries two highly spurious stories about the decline of ... Read More
Labour’s tawdry smear tactics can’t disguise its absence of ideas
The Clegg/Cameron Coalition is about to enter its period of maximum danger. The economic recovery may be going into reverse. Unemployment is back on the rise, with the level of youth unemployment now ... Read More
Is Britain's foreign policy anti-Christian? Not particularly: we just don't care
Britain’s plans to increase foreign aid to Pakistan while the country turns a blind eye to religious persecution is “tantamount to an anti-Christian foreign policy”, says Cardinal Keith O’... Read More