Olivia Pierson: A de facto marriage - Islam & Marxism

The undying love-affair between Islam and Marxism, particularly admired by the wanton wokerati, represents a profound moral, and therefore civilisational, challenge to human flourishing in our time.

Both display a damn creepy organising principle steeped in the rejection of Western liberty, Judeo-Christian understandings of human nature, and the fundamental dignity of the person.

Simon O'Connor: We no longer recognise evil

As the Islamic regime in Iran begins to crumble, it is clear from comments of some politicians, academics, and activists that they no longer can discern between good and evil, right and wrong.

As United States and Israeli air strikes continue to decapitate the leaders and degrade the facilities of the Islamic regime - who for decades have held the Iranian people hostage to their mad religious ideology – I wanted to share a few reflections.

Dr James Allan: The Marvellous Miseries of Multiculturalism

I start this first column of the new year with the heavy heart that I am sure all our readers have for the families of the victims of the horrific mass-murders on Bondi Beach just before Christmas. And let us not deal in the usual Labour Party euphemisms, misdirecting abstractions and Kumbaya platitudes. This was the deliberate attempt to murder Jews, by Islamic extremists, done solely because they wanted to kill Jews. And they did, with the odd non-Jewish bystander thrown in. That makes Australia, outside of Israel itself, the country where the most Jews have been murdered in a single incident since the Second World War.

Melanie Phillips: Britain's shocking Jew-free zone

The scenes in Birmingham last night demonstrated Muslim control of British streets

It was never about Israeli football fans. It was always about Muslim Jew-hatred. And last night in Birmingham, we saw that in Britain it’s Islam that now controls the streets.

A Muslim mob presenting a serious threat of violence and disorder was allowed to stage a thuggish display of hatred of Jews, incitement against them and intimidation.

Lushington Brady: Spanish Town Forbids Islamic Celebrations

Spaniards haven’t forgotten what it’s like to be ruled by Islam.

As Britain edges closer and closer to open rebellion from its indigenous peoples, indigenes in other European countries are growing increasingly vocal about the colonisation of their ancestral lands by waves of violent foreigners pushing an alien, supremacist, ideology.

Ani O'Brien: What people in the West don't know

I met a young Pakistani woman over the weekend and, as tends to happen with me, she wanted to discuss politics. It was one of the most interesting conversations I have had in a long time. I will call her Esther for this piece.

First, I must admit that I made assumptions about what her positions would be on particular matters of geopolitics based solely on the knowledge that she is from Pakistan. In my defence, my assumptions were statistically informed. Pakistan is one of the world’s most Islamic countries by percentage of population - estimated at around 97%.1 Esther is not part of that super-majority; she is part of the 1.37% who are Christian.

Dr Will Jones: The Persecution of Nigeria’s Christians by Muslims is Medieval in its Horror

The persecution of Nigeria’s Christians by Islamising Muslims is medieval in its horror, says Tom Goodenough in the Spectator. “Villages are surrounded in the dead of night by bandits who rape and kill the inhabitants. No one is spared: women and children are among those butchered.” Here’s an excerpt.

Sallust: Is the UK Heading Towards a Cultural Collapse?

Spectator Australia has a piece by Julie Sladden on ‘a nation in crisis?‘ No prizes for guessing which nation that is. She reluctantly visited Britain in February this year to attend a conference. There’s nothing like seeing how your nation appears to others:

I was right to be worried. As I crisscrossed the country after the conference, I visited with friends and family, made new friends and spoke with strangers, taxi drivers, locals, farmers and fellow travellers. What I saw and heard shocked me. The change that had taken place over a few short years could only be described as alarming.

Brendan O'Neill: It’s time we all stood up for the right to ridicule Islam

A man was executed for blasphemy in Europe yesterday. In the heart of the EU, which boasts to the world about its culture of tolerance, a man was shot in cold blood seemingly for the ‘crime’ of deriding the Koran. Anyone who doubts that Europe is in a dark place right now will surely have a rude awakening following this grim slaying of a man who some judged to be insufficiently godly.

Lushington D. Brady: They’re Not Even Hiding It

Is no one listening to what Muslims around the world are saying, loud and clear?

They’re not even hiding it – but is anyone in power taking notice?

History, as they say, repeats. Looking back on the inevitability of WWI,
H G Wells wrote, “Why did humanity gape at the guns and do nothing?” As it happens, he wrote that in 1933. In the same text he also foresaw the inevitability of war with Nazi Germany, even getting the location of the spark (Poland) right, if for the wrong reasons. Wells was also only a year off, guessing the outbreak of War in 1940.

Suze: NZ Muslims Are Yet to Object Publicly

It’s one and the same for fringe minorities seeking public affirmation through exploiting great chasms of tolerance embedded in our Christian-based law but the answer is not to adopt law changes instilling intolerance, but to nip the opportunists in the bud.

Trannies did it in public libraries up and down the country until Brian Tamaki recently cottoned onto their penchant for openly subjecting young children to flamboyant eroticism. He then campaigned against library events, successfully shutting down the Rotorua Public Library event after canvassing local support and threatening the Hastings City Council with the same.

Brendan O'Neill: The empire of hurt feelings

Islamic countries are trying to force the West to respect Muslims’ ‘feelings’. We must resist this therapeutic imperialism.

Where is the solidarity with Sweden? The foreign embassies of our democratic ally are under attack. The walls of its embassy in Baghdad were breached by hundreds of angry protesters last week. Other Muslim nations issued stinging rebukes against the Swedes. Morocco summoned Sweden’s representative for a dressing-down. Jordan reprimanded the Swedish ambassador over what it called Sweden’s ‘racist’ behaviour. Iran said it will not send an ambassador to Sweden. And Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan slammed Sweden’s ‘arrogance’, saying this wicked nation promotes ‘Islamophobia’ under the guise of ‘freedom of thought’ (not content with destroying freedom of thought in his own country, now he wants to undermine it in Sweden, too).

Karl du Fresne: We need to talk about Islam

New Zealand is overdue for a grown-up conversation about Islam.

It’s a conversation that has been made necessary because as a nation we’re conflicted, to use a popular term, about the religion founded by Mohammad. But the conversation needs to get beyond simplistic, kneejerk allegations of Islamophobia, and it needs to unpick some contradictions and inconsistences in how we view Muslims.

Mike Butler: Islam, blood, and slavery

Author M.A. Khan grew up a conservative Muslim society in India and moved to the West for post-graduate study, when his closest friends were Hindus and Sikhs, all with a liberal outlook.

When the 9/11 attacks occurred in the United States, he felt the attacks were justified, albeit misguided, even though he had abandoned Islamic religious rituals.

After 9/11, Khan started reading the religious texts of Islam, the Quran, Sunnah, and prophetic biographies, texts that he had not read in 35 years.

Matt Ridley from the UK: Stand up for the right to criticise Islam

"It is wrong to describe this as Islamic terrorism. It is Islamist terrorism. It is a perversion of a great faith.” 

This is what the prime minister said in parliament after the attack on Westminster Bridge that killed three tourists and a policeman. While I completely accept that the sins of extremists should never be visited on the vast majority of moderate believers, I am increasingly uneasy about how we handle the connection between religion and extremism.

Lindsay Perigo: "Magnificent Pandemonium" - Linz vs Muslims and Their Enablers

This is the speech I delivered almost in its entirety in my capacity as special commentator, along with Race Relations Commissioner Dame Susan Devoy, at Monday night's semi-final in the intra-university Next Generation Debates series at Auckland University. I say "almost in its entirety" because a gaggle of Muslims became very vocal near the end of my speech and demanded, successfully, I be stopped at once for having gone over my allocated time. The point at which I was shut down is noted in the text below.

What a member of Young New Zealand First called "magnificent pandemonium" followed, with epithets flying back and forth, Dame Susan waiving her right of rebuttal and storming off from the table we were both sharing.

Barend Vlaardingerbroek: ‘People of the Book’, ‘People of No Book’, and the ‘clash of civilisations’

“I think Islam hates us. There's a tremendous hatred… There is an unbelievable hatred of us.” – Donald Trump, 9 March

Islamist extremists certainly hate us. But exactly who is ‘us’? The ‘Christian West’ would be a common answer especially in the US, but it’s not a very satisfactory answer – there was little ‘Christian’ about the twin towers and even less ‘Western’ about the victims of the Lahore atrocity last week.

Barend Vlaardingerbroek from Lebanon: “My enemy’s enemy is my friend” – but not ISIS

“My enemy’s enemy is my friend” goes the old adage. It’s been put into practice a number of times in history, such as when Churchill and Roosevelt teamed up with Stalin against Hitler. But this jaded pearl of wisdom has little to offer the new and dire Middle East crisis that is unfolding.

When Fallujah fell to ISIS earlier this year, it didn’t raise that much of a stir. Then a couple more towns including Tikrit went the same way. Now Mosul has fallen and many are sitting bolt-upright. Thirty thousand men of the Iraqi army downed weapons and ran as though pursued by demons, their commanders leading the frenzied dash for safety. Half a million citizens followed.