Weblog vacation I'm in Southeast Asia until December 18th. I may prefer the warm water to an internet cafe. So excuse the intermittent postings.#
Images in a Rearview Mirror Jeez, Christopher Hitchens is having a good war. He's wielding his robust liberalism like a battle axe, and enjoying every moment. "I should perhaps confess that on September 11 last, once I had experienced all the usual mammalian gamut of emotions, from rage to nausea, I also discovered that another sensation was contending for mastery. On examination, and to my own surprise and pleasure, it turned out be exhilaration. Here was the most frightful enemy--theocratic barbarism--in plain view. Other and better people were gloomy at the prospect of confrontation. But I realized that if the battle went on until the last day of my life, I would never get bored in prosecuting it to the utmost." Take that, all you hypocrites and parasites of western liberalism, who would take from a system that you would never defend, take that.#
Hot babes are the solution Regular readers will know I like to make connections between the sexual frustration of Arab men and their prediliction for fanaticism. So here's a post from the redoubtable Ken Layne. "Here's a strange article from the Atlantic Monthly. It says the PLO got their boys off terrorism by marrying them off to hot Palestinian babes. Given a nice apartment, a decent stove and a pretty wife, all the former terrorists lost all interest in being blown up for The Cause."#
monday, november 26
Daniel Pipes: The Muslim Claim to Jerusalem Did you know how many times the Koran mentions Jerusalem? I've always just taken as a given that Jerusalem is as holy a place for Muslims as it is for Jews and Christians. But Daniel Pipes comes out with the remarkable fact that, while the Jewish Bible mentions Jerusalem 669 times, the Koran totally ignores the place. His general point: the Muslim religious claim on Jerusalem is politically inspired. Not that there is anything wrong with that. Anyone have an alternative explanation?#
