Ottoman Empire 2.0
The Turkish President Recep Erdogan has made the international news again, this time for a bizarre case of psychological child abuse: The Turkish president has appeared in […]
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“THE ALLY” – Not: Turkish authorities on Monday renamed a street where the U.S. Embassy is located with the name of Turkey’s military offensive in […]
Continue reading »ONE SMALL STEP – Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman continues to sheikh things up: Women in Saudi Arabia can now open their own businesses without the […]
Continue reading »“CELEBRATING” “MODESTY” – Does this dress make my ass look fatwa? London Modest Fashion Week will “celebrate” Britain’s growing sharia-compliant fashion industry — less than two […]
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Salon: “Why is the Bible so badly written?”
Salon publishes and unpublishes: Why is the Bible so badly written? https://t.co/lOJ9MGxNUP pic.twitter.com/4FdDnPw9AL — Salon (@Salon) February 8, 2018 Thank you for your feedback. We […]
Continue reading »DON’T HAVE A SAME-SEX WEDDING IN MECCA – A helpful suggestions to my gay friends in Australia who are thinking of possible places to tie […]
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Their Africa, and ours
Sudan, sadly, has been a basket case for a long time. The advent of an Islamist central government in the 1980s in particular has led […]
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Anti-FaComIS
Yesterday, on my morning walk through my quiet and semi-leafy neighbourhood of Wooloowin, in the outer inner north of Brisbane, Australia, I was confronted by […]
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20 best books I’ve read in 2017
I read. Too much. In fact, my New Year’s resolution for 2018 is to read less, and instead fill that time with some more profitable […]
Continue reading »SOLIDARITY WITH IRAN – It’s too early to get excited, since the Iranian regime has got a good form on suppressing anti-mullah protests, but it’s […]
Continue reading »THE ONE THAT DIDN’T GET AWAY – In an outer suburb of Cairo, Helwan, Copts targeted again: At least nine people have been killed after […]
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“ISIS has lost 98 per cent of its territory”
The military defeat of ISIS is one of the great good news stories of 2017, something I blogged about before (“If ISIS falls in a […]
Continue reading »THE WAR ON OBSESSION – The wolves are not just lone, they’re also obsessed: Victorian police are preparing to investigate up to 300 so-called “fixated […]
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Ice Ice Baby or Ram-a-dan?
Is he or isn’t he? For the first few hours after a 4WD vehicle rammed into pedestrians at the intersection of Spencer Street in Melbourne […]
Continue reading »FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE SEXBOTS – There’s nothing sacred for the jihadis: The Third International Congress in Love and Sex with Robots has been […]
Continue reading »DECLINE AND FALL OF ROME AND ITS CHRISTMAS TREE – It’s all, sadly, very symbolic: Romans are up in arms over the tree that has […]
Continue reading »“THE UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTH ABOUT SWEDISH ANTI-SEMITISM” – Via “The New York Times”, of all places: Historically, anti-Semitism in Sweden could mainly be attributed to right-wing […]
Continue reading »HERCULES POIROT AND THE CASE OF THE MISSING JIHADIS – Not dead and unaccounted for: An estimated 40,000 people traveled from around the world to […]
Continue reading »WILL SHE MISS IRAQ? – About a month ago, outrage erupted across the Middle East – no, it was not because Donald Trump recognised Jerusalem […]
Continue reading »FROM BANGLADESH WITH LOVE – Thank God no serious casualties – and no virgins for this loser: The would-be suicide bomber who detonated an explosive device […]
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