Amerikanere, rapto og islam

De kæmper med sammme misforståede tolerancebegreb som europæerne. Rapto – nyt ord:

It’s Not You, Islam, It’s Us

February 27, 2012 – by Andrew Klavan

Whenever I find myself swelling with a pleasant sense of righteous indignation, I wonder what exactly I’m getting wrong.

Thus, for instance, when I hear that Afghans and other Muslims are rioting and murdering people — including American soldiers — because the American military burned some Korans at Bagram Airfield in Kabul, I try very hard not to harrumph and start spouting such banalities as: “Ungrateful savages and their benighted religion! Ought to be gunned down, the lot of them!” Sure, the Korans had already been defaced by detainees trying to send extremist messages. And yes, American officials from the president down to a guy cleaning latrines at FOB Kalagush have apologized profusely. But before we condemn the rioters, American flag burners and murderers out of hand, let’s be fair.

Mere HER hos PJ Media.

Importing Violence: Immigration, Crime, and Why We Need Assimilation

A Third World culture of misogyny comes to America.

by Rob Taylor – February 28, 2012

When he was arrested for burglary in early 2006, Kesler Dufrene, a Haitian native residing in Florida’s Manatee County, already had a long history of sometimes violent criminality. His first arrest was at age 14 when he assaulted a teacher, and he has built up a long rap sheet since then. Often described as a drifter, Dufrene was caught burglarizing a home in July of 2006. Already on probation for theft, a judge gave him five years and ordered him deported after serving his sentence.

He never was. Dufrene emerged from prison in 2010 during a moratorium on deportations to Haiti enacted by the Obama administration. Due to his history, he was being “supervised” by immigration authorities, but that supervision was lax to say the least. Weeks after his release Dufrene committed a vicious, seemingly random triple homicide. One of the victims was a 15-year-old girl.

Mere HER hos PJ Media.

Og igen: Der er ingen overbefolkning

Det kan ikke siges for tit. Overbefolkning er ikke et problem. En nation skal have bæredygtighed, hvad folketallet anbelanger. Arbejdskraftens reproduktion. Et stabilt fødselstal hos landets oprindelige befolkning må være målet – ungefær 2,1 barn per kvinde for Danmarks vedkommende:

Five Myths About the World’s Population

By Nicholas Eberstadt | November 6, 2011

1. The world is overpopulated.

Sure, 7 billion is a big number. But most serious demographers, economists and population specialists rarely use the term “overpopulation” — because there is no clear demographic definition.

For instance, is Haiti, with an annual population growth rate of 1.3 percent, overpopulated? If it is, then was the United States overpopulated in 1790, when the new country was growing at more than 3 percent per year? And if population density is the correct yardstick, then Monaco, with more than 16,000 people per square kilometer, has a far greater problem than, say, Bangladesh and its 1,000 people per square kilometer.

Back in the 1970s, some scholars tried to estimate the “optimum population” for particular countries, but most gave up. There were too many uncertainties (how much food would the world produce with future technologies?) and too many value judgments (how much parkland is ideal?).

Mere HER hos AEI eller her i The Washington Post.

Andre kilder: djøf-bladet,

Theodore Dalrymple om diktatorer

Jep. Diktatur. Det er det, der er fremtiden:

Dictatorship: The Wave of the Future?

by Theodore Dalrymple – November 2011

No one ever deserved a grisly death more than the late Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, but this is only a proof – if such a proof were needed – that justice is far from the only human desideratum. Gaddafi was responsible for untold misery, its amount limited only by the relative insignificance and impotence of the country in which he seized power; but when I first saw the photograph of him taken, lying bloodied but conscious, by a French photographer (a photograph that is surely destined for such immortality as the world can confer), I felt for him what I did not think I could ever feel for him – compassion. The fact is that no one should die as he died, or be killed as he was killed.

Other dictators have met grisly ends, of course. Mussolini was strung up, Ceausescu shot and Saddam Hussein hanged, all unceremoniously and without dignity. It is possible, even, that Gaddafi’s death was not absolutely the worst suffered by a tyrant in the last hundred years. President Guillaume Sam was dragged out of the French Embassy in Port-au-Prince, in which he had taken refuge, by an enraged mob, impaled on railings, cut into pieces and his parts exhibited in the city. President Sam was no guardian angel of the rule of law: he had just had 169 political prisoners summarily executed, but this should not prevent us from accepting as a basic moral principle that impaling and cutting up people is wrong.

Mere HER i The New English Review. Og om sundhedshysteri:

E.Coli in Organic Food Leads to 50 Dead in Germany

Theodore Dalrymple – November 7, 2011

Perhaps health-food and vitamin supplements should be labelled, “Warning: Over-Concern for Your Health May Be Damaging to Your Health.”

As everyone knows, Mother Nature not only knows best but means us no harm: and therefore, the less we mess around with her and her products, the better. Although many people may have remarked, more in sorrow than in anger, how small and shriveled organic vegetables often appear by comparison with those that have been treated with chemicals, it is obvious that they (the organic ones) must be better for us because they are nearer to what Mother Nature intended.

This item of faith took something of a knock recently with the outbreak of Shiga-toxin-producing E. coli food poisoning in Germany. It was no small matter: more than 4000 people suffered from it and more than 50 died.

Mere HER hos Pajamas Media.

Opdatering 13. november 2011 – Dalrymple om mobiltelefoner:

The Cellular Telephone and its Discontents

by Theodore Dalrymple – November 11, 2011

A new study claims that cell phones don’t cause tumors. Which doesn’t mean that they don’t cause other forms of harm.

When I am a pedestrian I am frequently astonished by the carelessness and selfishness of drivers. When I am driving I am frequently astonished by the carelessness and selfishness of pedestrians. Equally astonishing, of course, is the way I can change the behavior of people so profoundly by the mere act of getting in or out of a car.

Mere HER i Pajamas Media.

Interview med Jimmy Carter

Carter ikke bestemt ikke en af mine favoritter på listen over amerikanske præsidenter:

Jimmy Carter: ‘We never dropped a bomb. We never fired a bullet. We never went to war’

He may live a modest life in a one-horse town, but Jimmy Carter, now 86, retains his global vision. And 30 years after leaving the White House, the peanut farmer turned president is still a man on mission. In Plains, Georgia, we found the 39th US president full of energy… and determined to make a difference

Carole Cadwalladr – 11 September 2011

Where does Jimmy Carter live? Well, close your eyes and imagine the kind of house an ex-president of the United States might live in. The sort of residence befitting the former leader of the most powerful nation on earth. Got it? Right, now scrub that clean from your mind and instead imagine the sort of house where a moderately successful junior accountant and his family might live.

It’s what in America is called a “ranch house”, or, as we’d say, “a bungalow”. There are no porticoes. No columns. No sweeping lawns. There’s just a small brick single-storey structure that Jimmy and his wife, Rosalynn, built on Woodland Drive back in 1961 when he was a peanut farmer and she was a peanut farmer’s wife, right in the heart of the town in which they grew up. Though Plains, Georgia is barely a town. A street, might be a more accurate description. A single road going nowhere much.

Mere HER i The Guardian.

Theodore Dalrymple om Nordkorea

En boganmeldelse:

The Meaning of Pyongyang

by Theodore Dalrymple – September 2011

There are some countries that, once visited, retain a disproportionate hold on your imagination. Among them, for me at least, are Haiti and Liberia, two small states that are known to the world at large principally for their political, and sometimes for their natural, catastrophes. They are marginal from the point of view of the world economy, I need hardly say, and yet their history has something about it that makes it seem significant beyond itself. No one, I think, can study the early history of either country without being moved by it; and just as the biography of a single person can also be a portrait of an age, so the history of an otherwise insignificant country can tell us something important about the human predicament as a whole, for example our tendency to turn liberation into a new form of servitude.

Mere HER i New English Review.

Video & artikler: Klima, jordskælv, skydannelse & psykisk sygdom

Jordskælv, orkaner, psykisk sygdom - mennesket får skyld for hvad som helst. Fra 29. august 2011::

Ezra Levant & Lorrie Goldstein On Hurricane Irene

Den næste artikel er et langt essay, der er udformet som en gyserfilm om, hvad der sker langs USAs vestkyst, når det helt store jordskælv rammer. Det kan ske når som helst:

Totally Psyched for the Full-Rip Nine

Monster earthquakes are going off all around the Pacific Ocean’s Ring of Fire. Is the West Coast of North America next?* And can you surf a tsunami?** Join us on a footnoted foray into the terrifying world of megaquakes, tidal waves, and the fine art of being your own Jesus.

By Bruce Barcott – August 25, 2011

Pity poor Cassandra, blessed by Apollo with the power of prophecy, cursed with the fate of ­disbelief. She tells the people what’s coming. She suffers their laughter, absorbs their scorn. Then she watches her prediction come true. Yeah, you told us so, they’ll say as they bury the dead. Congratulations, jerk.

Patrick Corcoran feels her pain. It’s his job. Every day, he rises at dawn and goes out into the world to tell people to prepare to meet their doom. Or, rather, to prepare to escape it.

Mere HER hos Outside. I modsætning til ovenstående er den følgende artikel langt ude. Alarmisterne har kronede dage. Aviserne trykker velvilligt alt, hvad de har af absurditeter:

Mental illness rise linked to climate

August 29, 2011

Rates of mental illnesses including depression and post-traumatic stress will increase as a result of climate change, a report to be released today says.

The paper, prepared for the Climate Institute, says loss of social cohesion in the wake of severe weather events related to climate change could be linked to increased rates of anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress and substance abuse.

Mere HER i The Sidney Morning Herald. The Courier her.

Og så er nyheden om den forskning, der bekræfter Henrik Svensmarks teorier om skydannelse, også nået frem til den hjemlige andedam. Lige et link her til den fodslæbende Jyllands-Posten, der ikke er meget for at indrømme, at kritikerne af “global opvarmning” ser ud til at få ret:

• Nyt rygstød til kontroversiel teori om klimaet

Og et link til The Heartland Institute, der har en artikel om endnu en rapport, der modsiger FNs kontroversielle klimapanel. Rapporten er lavet af tre amerikanske forskningsinstitutter:

• New Report on Global Warming Contradicts U.N.’s IPCC

Andre kilder: Ezra Levant, The American Thinker,

Den Nye Verdensorden

Global regering? Nej tak. Vi har allerede set, hvad globale landsbyidioter kan udrette – ihukommende den “gobale opvarmning”:

Come Together

Leaders struggling to fix a world spiraling out of control are turning to international institutions. Are they up to the task?

By David Bosco | August 18, 2011

The world has been in a state of economic turmoil since 2008, and there’s a good chance that things will get worse. Germany’s economic slowdown is generating new doubt about Europe’s already troubled efforts to deal with its debt crisis. And if Europe’s crisis spirals, a devastating global downturn may follow.

The burgeoning emergency will have all sorts of political implications, but some of the most consequential may be for the architecture of global governance. Perhaps surprisingly, the global economic crisis has to this point strengthened key international institutions. The most obvious beneficiaries are the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and European institutions, including the European Central Bank and the new European Financial Stability Facility.

Mere HER i Foreign Policy Magazine.

Overdrivelse fremmer misforståelsen

FNs troværdighed falder hele tiden:

Millions May Die … Or Not.

How disaster hype became a big global business.

By David Rieff  | Sept/Oct 2011

On Sept. 28, 2001, with the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan imminent, Jeremy Hobbs, the executive director of Oxfam Community Aid Abroad, issued an urgent call for donations to the group’s Afghan Refugee Crisis Appeal. “Up to 5 million innocent people face starvation and death in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran,” he insisted. “We must act now to prevent what could possibly be the worst humanitarian catastrophe since World War II.”

Really? Worse than Biafra in 1967, worse than the Cambodian refugee crisis, worse than the Ethiopian famine of 1984-1985, and worse even than Somalia in 1991? How could a senior official at one of the most experienced and well-respected private relief agencies in the world suggest with such confidence that the crisis in Afghanistan was likely to outstrip these tragedies?

Mere HER i Foreign Policy.

Nu skal vi betale jizya

Der findes lande, som forbyder eller gør det umuligt for kvinder at uddanne sig og arbejde. Der findes lande, hvor fire koner og et utal af børn skal leve af én mands indtægt. Kun en brøkdel af befolkningen er at finde på arbejdsmarkedet. Og når man således helt og holdent selv har ødelagt landets sociale infrastruktur, beskatningsgrundlag og nationaløkonomi, skal ansvaret selvfølgelig placeres på den anden side af jordkloden. Det er Vestens skyld. Vi skal betale jizya – i Vesten arbejder kvinder jo og familierne kan derfor beskattes hårdere. Klart ikke? Ræson:

Somalia: Vores moralske ansvar

Thomas Søbirk, der er lektor ved RUC, mener at vi bør give 5 procent af vores indkomst til dem, der trænger mest.

Interview af Malthe Rasmussen – 29. juli 2011

RÆSON: Hvad er vores ansvar som individer i forhold til en hungersnødkrise som den, vi ser på Afrikas horn lige nu?

Mere i Ræson HER. Foreign Policy har også en artikel om, hvordan det hele er vores ansvar:

• Against the Grain

Opdatering:

What Do Wealthy Arabs Really Care About?

by Khaled Abu Toameh – July 29, 2011

Arab League representatives who held an emergency meeting in Cairo this week to discuss the financial crisis in the Palestinian Authority did not find time to deal with the plight of over !! million Somalis who are facing starvation due to the ravaging drought.

It is a stain on the forehead of all Arabs and Muslims that Americans and Europeans have moved faster to provide urgent aid to the famine-stricken population in Somalia, one of the 22 members of the Arab League. Saudi Arabia has pledged $60 million, but it remains to be seen if it will fulfill its promise. The promise is considered a drop in the sea compared with what Western countries have pledged to save the lives of the Somalis.

Hudson New York HER. Kan også læses her i New English Review.

Video: Niall Ferguson & Allan Gregg

TVO uploader sommetider noget gammelt stof. Dette interview er fra april 2003, men nyt på YouTube. Det handler om USAs rolle som supermagt:

Niall Ferguson on the American “empire”

In  his new book “Empire: the Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power”, Oxford historian Niall Ferguson claims that the British Empire was one of the world’s modernising forces. He suggests that America, because of its global dominance, is really an empire but is reluctant to recognize it. Is this “empire”, with its fiscal deficits and colossal military spending in Iraq and Afghanistan, about to crumble too? (Originally aired April 2003)

Hvad er zakat?

Andrew C. McCarthy svarer på spørgsmålet i to gode artikler:

Uncharitable

Zakat is not about charity, but jihad.

 - April 23, 2011

In the United States, rules on charitable giving have made it harder for Muslims to fulfill their religious obligation,” President Obama claimed during his 2009 Cairo speech. “That is why I am committed to working with American Muslims to ensure that they can fulfill zakat.”

This statement contained two falsehoods. One, as I’ve previously detailed, was obvious: There are, in fact, no American laws or rules that make it harder for Muslims to give to charity. What we have are laws against material support of terrorism — against using devices like charitable fronts to channel money to jihadists. Those laws are not directed at Muslims. They apply to everyone but are applied most often to Muslims, because Muslims carry out most anti-American terrorism.

Mere HER i National Review Online. Kan også læses her hos Free Republic.

Zakat is not “charity” as that concept is understood in the West

By Andrew C. McCarthy – April 24, 2011

Zakat, often mis-translated as “charitable giving,” is the topic of my weekend column. The column has provoked some push back, including this, from a Muslim site called the “Qudosi Chronicles” — operated by Shireen Qudosi, a self-described “moderate Muslim reformer,” who immoderately (albeit predictably) accuses me of bigotry. As one who champions authentic Muslim moderates, it is always remarkable to me that one can portray oneself as a “reformer,” yet go into attack mode whenever a non-Muslim has the temerity to point to an Islamic doctrine that quite obviously needs reforming.

Mere HER i National Review Online. Kan også læses her hos Right Wing News Watch.

Audio: Francis Fukuyama om statsdannelse

Og om Fukuyamas nye bog. Fra WNYC Radio den 11. april 2011 – værten hedder Brian Lehrer:

The Origins of Political Order – April 11, 2011

Francis Fukuyama, author of The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution, talks about his book.

Guests: Francis Fukuyama

Startes HER eller her. Åbner Windows Media Player. Varer 19 minutter. Derefter går programmet videre med noget andet. Desuden en artikel – en slags portræt i interviewform:

The Beginning of History

As the communist era vanished, he declared history’s end. With the Middle East in revolt and China rising, Francis Fukuyama is back. What is he thinking?

by Andrew Bast – April 10, 2011

Not long after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, Francis Fukuyama was just a green 27-year-old researcher at the RAND Corporation, the military-focused think tank. His assignment? Gin up a strategy to counter Moscow’s aggression. Fresh from filing his dissertation on Soviet foreign policy at Harvard, he quickly faced the unsettling fact that Washington knew next to nothing about South Asia. So he picked up the phone.

Mere HER i Newsweek. Kan også læses her i The Daily Beast.

Andre kilder: The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Blog Critics, The Pelican Post,

Ingen plyndringer i Japan

Fordi de næsten ingen immigranter har. Det handler om kultur. Ingen har slæbt usunde kulturer ind i landet:

Culture keeps Japanese from looting

Mar 16, 2011

The resilience of the Japanese people is fast becoming part of the story in the wake of last week’s earthquake and tsunami.

Unlike what we have become accustomed to following similar natural disasters in Haiti and, before that, New Orleans, there is no civil unrest in Japan, no anger, no looting.

“They don’t do looting,” David Welch, Chair of Global Security at Waterloo’s Centre for International Governance Innovation, says plainly.

Mere HER hos 570 News.

Japanese Don’t Loot

Jared Taylor – March 14, 2011

The media are cautiously beginning to note that the earthquake/tsunami in Japan has not resulted in a single reported case of looting or even disorderly behavior. Dazed residents have gone back to smashed houses to salvage what they can, but no one worries about thieves. Thousands of homeless line up quietly and politely as they wait for emergency food and water.

The contrast with what happened after the Haiti earthquake last January or Hurricane Katrina in 2005 could not be more stark. In both cases, there was an almost immediate descent into savagery, with police officers joining in the looting. In New Orleans, evacuation centers became nightmares of violence and lawlessness, and the National Guard had to carry weapons on relief missions. In Haiti, tent cities for the quake victims became scenes of mass rape.

Mere HER i American Renaissance.

Andre kilder:The Daily Dish, The American Thinker, The Telegraph,

Tip: Tak til Decca.

Audio: Året der gik i USA, England og Danmark

USA overlader vi til Mark Steyn, som har sine kommentarer på audio. Man kan følge med i en komplet udskrift her:

Year In Review With Mark Steyn

The Hugh Hewitt Show – Dec 29, 2010

The Columnist To the World tries to cover 16 big stories of 2010 in just under ten minutes.

Startes HER – åbner Windows Media Player.

Opdatering – nogen har været så venlig at youtube Steyn:

Englændernes oplevelse af året der gik, kommer fra Hudson New York:

UK Rundown 2010: Shaken but not Stirred

By A. Millar – December 27, 2010

With an election having taken place in May, 2010 should have been the year in which politics took center stage. Instead, the pressing issues of the day were largely ignored during the campaign period, as they have been for the last decade. Partly as a consequence, 2010 turned into the year in which politics spilled over into the streets.

Welfare cuts were, perhaps inevitably, an issue that the parties somewhat tackled. Still, students – the base of Britain’s third party, the Liberal Democrats – expressed their outrage at the university-fees hike proposed by the coalition government (of which the Lib Dems are the junior partner). The students were also whipped up into rioting throughout November and December by various socialist organizations – a situation that appears to have remained off the radars of both the authorities and the media.

Mere HER hos Hudson New York.

Danskernes 2010 har Jyllands-Postens Troels Heeger og Søren Villemoes skrevet om:

Terrorkavalkade 2010

31. december 2010

2010 blev terrorens år. Det startede med det modbydelige økseoverfald på Kurt Westergaard d. 1. januar og sluttede med et større terrorangreb mod Jyllands-Posten, der ser ud til at være afværget i sidste sekund af PET og svenske SÄPO i samarbejde. Der skal herfra bloggen lyde en uforbeholden tak til de mange anonyme tjenestemænd, der tilsyneladende endnu engang har gjort et fremragende stykke arbejde. Men det kan ikke ændre på den ubehagelige kendsgerning, at 2010 slog alle rekorder i antallet af afværgede og mislykkede terrorforsøg, samt religiøst/politisk motiverede trusler og overfald her i Skandinavien.

Mere HER i Jyllands-Posten.

Victor Davis Hanson om byers undergang

Få artiklen læst højt via Windows Media Player – her:

The Destiny of Cities

By Victor Davis Hanson – Autumn 2010

Throughout history, forces both natural and human have made cities rise and fall.

As the world steadily grows more urbanized, with 50 percent of its population no longer rural, it is more important than ever to ask how cities either perish or manage to survive. The question can be hard to answer. Why, following centuries of periodic depopulation and neglect, are Rome and Athens once again capitals, while Leptis Magna and Ephesus—once-thriving imperial powerhouses on the coasts of Libya and Turkey, respectively—are long deserted? Was it climate, or location, or a larger cultural tradition of resilience that eventually brought Rome and Athens back in a way that didn’t happen with the other two cities?

Mere HER i City Journal.

FN er en skandale

U.N. Ignores Haiti and Darfur But Points Fingers at U.S., Israel

By Anne Bayefsky – November 23, 2010

Over in Turtle Bay, the U.N. General Assembly is now wrapping up its key fall session. After taking a good hard look at human rights violations around the globe, it has come to the following conclusions about the world’s ills: In 2010, eighty percent of all its condemnations of alleged human rights abuses – twenty-one resolutions – will have been directed at Israel alone.

The Assembly will also finish the year having decided that only six more of the 192 U.N. member states raise human rights concerns. Warranting a single resolution each are Afghanistan, Burma, Georgia, Iran, North Korea, and the United States.

This astonishing result percolates up primarily from the General Assembly’s main committees, such as the third committee on humanitarian affairs and the fourth committee on decolonization which finish their business before Thanksgiving. All U.N. members sit in each of these committees, so that over the past two months a thousand diplomats have huddled in meetings and churned out documents, speeches, webcasts and press releases.

 Mere HER hos FoxNews. Kan også læses her hos Canada Free Presss.

Igen: tre stærke artikler fra Trykkefrihedsselskabet

De er virkelig i hopla for tiden, – derinde i København City:

Forfatter: Ytringsfriheden skal tages fra Lars Hedegaard

29. august 2010 – Uwe Max Jensen

Lysten til at censurere politiske modstandere trives blandt kunstnere. Michael Elmgreen har fået følgeskab af forfatterren Morten Sabroe, der synes man skal tage retten til at ytre sig fra den ”altid PMS-ramte hystade”, Lars Hedegaard.

Mere spalteplads kan Elmgreen ikke få her hos Veritas Universalis. Man må ind til Sappho for at læse resten – HER.

Hauge anmelder Hitchens: En omvendelseshistorie

29. August 2010 – Hans Hauge

Peter Hitchens, broder til den kendte ny-ateist og islamkritiker Christopher Hitchens, har skrevet en bog, der både er et selvopgør, en omvendelseshistorie og nådesløs kritik af den nye ateisme.

Omvendelse og broderkritik

The Rage Against God er en omvendelseshistorie. Den handler om en person, der først tager afstand fra kirke og kristendom; som derefter kommer på universitetet og bliver socialist for midt i livet at vende om. Gøre op med sin politiske fortid og vende tilbage til kirken og til en på klassisk, traditionel anglikansk kristendom baseret konservatisme. Og det skal også siges, at bogen handler mest om England og den anglikanske kirke. Den er på dén måde en lokal bog, hvor en hel del ikke kan overføres på danske forhold.

Sappho har det hele HER. I den følgende artikel er der en åbenlys fejl. Gud og Allah er helt bestemt ikke den samme. Flere fænomener bliver fejlagtigt tillagt Gud, men skal retteligt tilskrives fantasifostret Allah, - subsidiært hans falske “profet” Muhammed:

Hån, Spot & Latterliggørelse: Nydansk ordbog

Vores nye H, S & L-medarbejder, Pertinax, lægger for med en servicemeddelelse til danskere, der vil undgå at få brev fra statsadvokaten.

Nyt system, nyt sprog

Som George Orwell beskrev i sin roman 1984, vil et nyt politisk system nødvendigvis blive ledsaget af et nyt sprog, der skal gøre det umuligt at udtrykke forkastelige tanker, der var gangbare under det gamle system, eller som beskriver forbudte kendsgerninger. Og når det nye sprog har bidt sig fast i folkets bevidsthed, skulle det gerne medføre, at man ikke kan tænke noget forkert, fordi ordene og begreberne for fejltænkning ikke findes.

Sappho HER.

Note: Michael Nazir-Ali har også anmeldt Christopher Hitchens nye bog:

• Michael Nazir-Ali anmelder bog af Peter Hitchens

Video: Christopher Hitchens og Dinesh D’Souza

The God Debate: Hitchens vs. D’Souza

“Two titans of the religious spectrum famed Atheist Christopher Hitchens and esteemed Catholic apologetic Dinesh D’Souza clash in public debate at the University of Notre Dame.

Sponsored in part by The College of Arts and Letters: The Henkels Lecturer Series, The Center for Philosophy of Religion and the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts.”

De har debatteret mange gange, de to herrer. Men det bliver resultatet bestemt ikke dårligere af. Fra 7. april 2010:

Video: Lawrence E. Harrison – igen

Fandt lige en til:

Lecture by Lawrence E. Harrison, Tufts University. Recorded in Moscow April 8, 2009. Moscow Higher School of Economics – University.

“Jews, Confucians, and Protestants: Cultural Capital and the End of Multiculturalism”.

Når den russiske herre bryder ind som reaktion på en studenterkommentar fra salen, sker der sådan set ikke mere. Det ser ud til, at Harrsion alligevel var færdig med sit indlæg.

Første del er HER, men der er tale om to uafhængige lektioner.

Video: Lawrence E. Harrison i Rusland

Culture Matters, Cultural Capital, and the End of Multiculturalism. Forelæsning i Moskva 7. – 9. April 2009 ved konferencen: 

SU-HSE “Xth International Academic Conference on economic and social development in Russia”