Tuesday, 12 May 2009


Gimmickry, the Last Refuge of Appeasement

It is the Home Office’s prerogative to ban individuals from entering the UK if they pose a security risk to the nation. Free speech needn’t extend to welcoming extremist Muslim clerics, neo-Nazis, or other sorts of radicals. But naming of 16 banned individuals last week was no more than a cynical exercise, meant to mask over the government’s incompetence, and to provide moral justification for more of the same. We shouldn’t let that happen.

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Why Muslims Like Hitler, but Not Mozart

I have had some interesting discussions with my good friend Ohmyrus, who is an ethnic Chinese man but appreciates some aspects of Western civilization that many Westerners themselves appear to have forgotten, or rejected. He is not unique in this regard. One of the best books about European culture published in recent years is Defending the West, written by the former Muslim Ibn Warraq who was born in the Indian subcontinent, not in the Western world. Essentially, according to modern Multiculturalism, every culture has the right to exist – except the Western one. The Iranian-born ex-Muslim Ali Sina denounces Multiculturalism for precisely this reason in his book Understanding Muhammad, which I have reviewed online:

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EU Elections in France – Libertas

The European elections set for June 7 will give the pro-sovereignty movements a chance to regain some of the ground lost when France was forced kicking and screaming into the EU, and the Irish were told they would have to re-vote on the Lisbon Treaty, and that they better get it right this time.
 
All eyes will be on the results achieved by the Front National and Libertas, the group formed by the fusion of Philippe de Villiers' MPF (Movement for France) and the smaller CPNT party headed by Frédéric Nihous. CPNT stands for "Chasse, Pêche, Nature et Traditions" – Hunting, Fishing, Nature, Tradition – and was formed in 1989. Here is what Wikipedia has to say about Libertas:

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