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Between where I stepped off a train from Rotterdam at Gare du Nord and the end of the platform I counted some forty French police officers. Cool, I thought, I …
Read MoreBetween where I stepped off a train from Rotterdam at Gare du Nord and the end of the platform I counted some forty French police officers. Cool, I thought, I …
Read MoreIt is a truth universally acknowledged that whatever you think of the Islamic female attire, it is certainly voluminous and concealing enough to provide for anonymity or disguise. It is …
Read More25 Aug, 9:32am: An obsession gone really wrong? 10:19pm: But of course: The Islamic Council of Queensland’s Ali Kadri was critical of the speculation so early on that the alleged …
Read MoreThe 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 …
Read MoreIt 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 …
Read MoreIn 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 …
Read MoreI 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 …
Read MoreOne 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 …
Read MoreForeign 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 …
Read MoreEat 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 …
Read MoreWith 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 …
Read MoreThe 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 …
Read MoreDid 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 …
Read MorePoor 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 …
Read MoreEven 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, …
Read MoreWith 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 …
Read More24 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 …
Read MoreIslamophobia 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 …
Read MoreFrom the people (and by people I mean me) who brought you Ten Commandments of Social Justice Warriors, behold… You might enjoy this. Slightly topical.
Read More10:21pm: 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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