Archive for the ‘ Islam ’ Category
I am not certain of the producer’s intent with this video about empires but one thing it does do, is give one a sense of proportion when it comes to the current nation-state of Israel. Note the relative size of the empires labeled Caliphate, Ottoman and Seljuk, all Moslem empires. Today Israel is surrounded by [ READ MORE ]
This week the President who killed Osama (oh wait, that was the Navy Seals,) announced the timeline for the US to be out of Afghanistan entirely. I thought the bit about making pals with the Taliban if they agree to make nice revealed an idiotic kumbaya, naiveté on the part of President O. Whatever else one thinks [ READ MORE ]
This is another story that will not find its way to the mainstream “sock puppet” media. It’s about the plight of Iraqi Christians. It’s titled Wins and Losses in World Magazine. The story revolves around an Anglican minister who left England to minister to the only surviving Anglican Church in Iraq. Some like to point out [ READ MORE ]
Our grandson has his second birthday coming up so we went to Target to scope out trikes. While there we noted a couple of things. 1. The Easter Cards. One card featured a little girl having a temper tantrum screaming for for more chocolate. On the inside it said something like “or I’ll have one [ READ MORE ]
I hope you are intrigued by the title of this post and the link below and read on! Go to the below link last. Is the Bible your puppet? Exegesis vs. Eisegesis. I’ve been slowly going through Robert Spencer’s The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam and the Crusades. One interesting feature is how Spencer will [ READ MORE ]
Who says intimidation does not work? Every time there is a real or imagined insult aimed at Islam the Moslem world goes crazy with rage and people die. What follows is weak western politicians bending over backwards to mollify the fanatics. Hint to the Western democracies: It will never work. They hate us. They will [ READ MORE ]
Judge Andrew Napolitano, a libertarian with a show on FOX has written an interesting piece on What is a Just War. The Judge sites St. Thomas Aquinas as the modern articulator of the Just War Theory although it was Augustine way back in the 5th Century A.D. who first postulated it. It’s hardly surprising that Augustine would give [ READ MORE ]
One of the charges made against the west when the west responds to terrorism (Iraq, Afghanistan) is that the west is on a crusade against Islam. The use of the word “crusade” is used to remind Moslems that in the 11th Century the west did begin to launch crusades spurred on by western popes who [ READ MORE ]
The Battle of Marathon was fought in 490 B.C. between the Greek city-state of Athens aided by the smaller city-state of Plataea and Achaemenid Persia Empire (modern-day Iran and surrounding areas). The Achaemenid King Darius sought to punish Athens because Athens had aided in a revolt of the Ionian Greek cities in Asia. Darius I, [ READ MORE ]
There is an ongoing controversy in New York regarding the building of a mosque close to the 9/11 site. I don’t wish to rehash that here but it did get me thinking as to how Moslem immigrants (and converts to Islam) function within a non-Islamic culture. In other words what are Moslem expectations of the [ READ MORE ]
Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.
Join 299 other followers
