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if the shoe fits: show your souls
…..Bringing them to heel. Or the heel hits the heel. There are questions of etiquette, gamesmanship and local custom involved mixed with religious practice. After all, showing the sole of your shoe is an an insult in Arab culture, though … Continue reading
bantustans, bikinis and burkas
….Looking for an equal whites amendment… The general thesis here is probably correct as expounded by Doug Saunders.. But the devil is in the details. In genreal one can conclude that Islam is a religion of peace. Salafist kooks and … Continue reading
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Tagged bernard lewis, Bruce Bawer, Daniel Pipes, doug saunders globe and mail, Gustave Bauernfeind, Jacob Vigdor, Joseph Farquharson, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mark Steyn, Niall Ferguson, oriana fallaci, Schreyer paintings German, shimon peres
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the future: hunting for causes
It was one of Lenin’s more inspired insights that history always has the capacity to surprise. He was thinking mainly of political revolution, for as a revolutionary he had to be optimistic and hopeful in the darkest times in order … Continue reading
terrorism: an enduring industry
…Of the two types, the Yevno Azef , doubleagent, or the Joseph Stalin prototype, it is the Azef type that is more relevant to the terrorist threat as it presents itself in the world today. Our complex technological civilization offers … Continue reading
it’s a guy thing
True believers. un-believers. Mis-believers. Its a bizarre love triangle for Pat Robertson and he is media savvy enough to play the cards right every time and drawing the awaited reaction, the wailing and moral lamentations from secular religious liberals of … Continue reading
tears and fears: RIP (through) holy land
Attack Jerusalem? Launching rockets on the eternal city? Imagine the irony if a Hamas rocket hits the Dome of the Rock? Recoil time to play in the rubble. Something here about Walter Benjamin’s idea of children playing in trash and … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Warhol, anselm kiefer, bernard lewis, Caroline Glick Jerusalem Post, David Rubinger, Gershon Baskin, Golda Meir, Heinrich Bunting, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Horkheimer, thomas friedman new york times, tom wesselmann, Walter Benjamin
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daughter of moses
They were depicted as ugly or extremley cultured and beautiful. They were never “average” as so the travel accounts of Jewish women in Ottoman Turkey have come down to us. It is hard to know the basis for this; in … Continue reading
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Tagged Bayazid II, bernard lewis, D.H. Lawrence, Edouard Manet, George Sandys, Immanual Aboab, John Evelyn diarist, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Samuel Purchas, Sultan Suleyman the magnificent, Thomas Coryate
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