Suffer little children, and women
The bomber who detonated at the Kurdish wedding in southern Turkey, killing 54, mostly women and children, might or might not have been a young teenager – The Turkish authorities …
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It’s time for a Kurdish state
It is perhaps the greatest travesty of the Middle Eastern geo-politics, if not the international geo-politics, that the Kurds don’t have their own state. It is a travesty because apart …
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Our lives are in the best of hands
In early December, Sydneysiders and Australians in general will remember the second anniversary of the deadly Lindt chocolate café siege. After a sixteen-hour stand-off, one of the eighteen hostages inside …
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Let’s criminalise blasphemy so we don’t have to kill the blasphemers
I might be verballing some of the people quoted in the BBC reporting, but not by much. On 24 March this year, Glasgow shopkeeper Asad Shah was brutally murdered in …
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Hillary and the Tale of Two Muslim Fathers
One a father of an Army hero, the other a father of a terrorist villain. The common thread – the Hillary campaign. Khizr Khan, flanked by his wife Ghazala, spoke …
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Trump vs Hillary – your short foreign policy guide
Foreign policy can be confusing. Political candidates’ foreign policy positions can be even more confusing. Confused? Fret not; here is your Daily Chrenk’s short guide to Donald Trump’s and Hillary …
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Who would Jesus bomb?
Eat your heart out Amazon with your planned drone book delivery: A Swedish evangelical free church has said it plans to use drones to drop thousands of bibles into Isis-controlled …
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Your Holiness, you’re wrong about terrorism
With the greatest of respect… “I think it is not right to identify Islam with violence,” the Pope told reporters aboard the plane taking him back to Rome on Sunday …
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…and no 72 virgins for you, loser
The local Muslim community refuses to bury the Normandy priest-killer Adel Karmiche: Speaking to Le Parisien, Mohammed Karabila, president of the local Muslim cultural association and imam of one of …
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#PrayForParis
Did you know that Paris Hilton is still alive? I didn’t either. I thought that Kim Kardashian used her as a butt implant, but clearly not. Apparently she now spends …
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Human Rights Watch categorises some terrorism as “Islam inspiredâ€, all hell breaks loose
Poor Kenneth Roth, the Executive Director of Human Rights Watch. All he wanted to do was to illustrate the fact that the current levels of terrorism in Europe are not …
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The bomber will always get through
Even before all the horror of World War Two, the pessimists used to say “the bomber will always get throughâ€. How right they were, as millions of residents of London, …
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#PrayForThoseWhoPrayInNormandy
With some sort of an attack or incident seemingly every day or two, terror has indeed become Europe’s “new normal”. At Church of the Gambetta in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, Normandy, a priest …
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Munich – another day, another “Allah Akbar” (UPDATED)
24 August, 8:30am: Just a “normal” crazed gunman, without ideology? But just in case, BBC drops the killer’s name “Ali” and just refers to him as “David Sonboly”. 12:08pm: “Witnesses …
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Is Islamophobia rational?
Islamophobia can be defined as dislike or hatred of, or prejudice against, Islam or Muslim. The phobia part of the word, however, originally refers to fear. Mayo Clinic defines phobia …
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Ten commandments of the media coverage of terrorism, crime and violence
From the people (and by people I mean me) who brought you Ten Commandments of Social Justice Warriors, behold… You might enjoy this. Slightly topical.
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Nice (UPDATED)
10:21pm: Nice airport evacuated. 10:04pm: Not the first use of a vehicle as a terrorist weapon, not even in France. Meanwhile, it’s a method much encouraged by the Palestinian propaganda …
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Democrats – the parallel universe, in 5 easy headlines
There are the known unknowns and the unknown knowns, and then there is the Democratic Party reality.
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Identity politics jihadi-style: you killed the wrong people, Omar
Al Qaeda has posthumously chastised ISIS allegiant Omar Mateen for muddling the message by shooting gay Latinos instead of non-sexuality specific Anglos. In their online magazine “Inspireâ€, Al Qaeda in …
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All you need is love, and other great moments in American law enforcement
It’s has been a last few days for Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and by great I mean shocking and sackable. First, there was the brilliant decision to release the transcripts …
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