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Mohammed and Charlemagne Revisited: The History of a Controversy
Emmet Scott |
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Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy
Ibn Warraq |
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Anything Goes
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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Karimi Hotel
De Nidra Poller |
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The Left is Seldom Right
by Norman Berdichevsky |
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Allah is Dead: Why Islam is Not a Religion
by Rebecca Bynum |
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Virgins? What Virgins?: And Other Essays
by Ibn Warraq |
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An Introduction to Danish Culture
by Norman Berdichevsky |
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The New Vichy Syndrome:
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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Jihad and Genocide
by Richard L. Rubenstein |
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Second Opinion
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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Not With a Bang But a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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In Praise of Prejudice: The Necessity of Preconceived Ideas
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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Defending The West:
by Ibn Warraq |
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Nations, Language and Citizenship:
by Norman Berdichevsky |
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Romancing Opiates
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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Which Koran?
by Ibn Warraq |
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Our Culture, What's Left of It
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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What The Koran Really Says
by Ibn Warraq |
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Life at the Bottom
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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The Origins of the Koran
by Ibn Warraq |
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Why I Am Not Muslim
by Ibn Warraq |
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Spanish Vignettes: An Offbeat Look Into Spain's Culture, Society & History
by Norman Berdichevsky |
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Leaving Islam
Edited by Ibn Warraq |
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The Danish-German Border Dispute, 1815-2001: Aspects of Cultural and Demographic Politics
by Norman Berdichevsky |
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What's Love Got to Do with It?: Emotions and Relationships in Pop Songs
by Thomas J. Scheff |
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Here are the Blogs in the Mary Jackson category.
Friday, 10 February 2012
Brotherhood of Man Interlude
Running away together
Running away forever
Angelo
Forever? Running away forever? When you're 64? Wouldn't you want to stop for a nice cup of tea and a sit down?
...Read More...
Posted on 02/10/2012 10:18 AM by Mary Jackson
Wednesday, 8 February 2012
Abu Fatada
Have Muslim men about us who are fat:
Straggly of beard, hooky of hand and vile:
Yond Tariq has a lean and hungry look/ He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.
...Read More...
Posted on 02/08/2012 1:27 PM by Mary Jackson
Wednesday, 8 February 2012
Abu Qatada appointed UK’s jihad tsar
From bad to worse. From The Daily Mash:
RADICAL Islamic cleric Abu Qatada is to overhaul British Islamo-fascism after being named as the country's first jihad 'tsar'.
'It's an exciting challenge'
The bearded preacher, who supports the conversion or murder of all non-Muslims, ...Read More...
Posted on 02/08/2012 10:43 AM by Mary Jackson
Tuesday, 7 February 2012
The Corrections
Thanks to Christina MacIntosh for supplying both the link and most of the corrections to this story from the Jerusalem Post. As I pointed out in my first "Corrections" column, corrections are made to the potentially corrigible, rather than to the chronically Islamophiliac. We start by correcting ...Read More...
Posted on 02/07/2012 7:10 AM by Mary Jackson
Tuesday, 7 February 2012
Pseudsday Tuesday
It is not without good reason that New English Review lacks a Diversity Officer. Untangle those negatives and you'll get a positive -- far from being diversity-phobic, we at NER are 110% diversity-centric, but we believe that diversity alone is not enough. Introducing (h/t The Telegraph's Christina ...Read More...
Posted on 02/07/2012 6:45 AM by Mary Jackson
Monday, 6 February 2012
Penny for your thoughts?
As I've said before, are some real bargains on Kindle, putting normal books to shame. The paperback edition of "How Proust Can Change Your Life" by Alain de Botton will set you back a wapping £6.39. But on Kindle you can get all seven volumes of À la recherche du temps ...Read More...
Posted on 02/06/2012 8:03 AM by Mary Jackson
Monday, 6 February 2012
A thought for anti-monarchists to chew on
Michael Deacon in The Telegraph:
Not everyone will celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Queen's accession to the throne. There are still those who would prefer Britain to have an elected head of state. Let's imagine for a moment that the anti-monarchists got their way, the Queen were stripped ...Read More...
Posted on 02/06/2012 7:35 AM by Mary Jackson
Monday, 6 February 2012
Cliché corner
In her Spectator review of Simon Callow's new book on Dickens, Judith Flanders writes: "a Niagara of clichés pours over these pages". Perhaps an editor needs to pore over the pages and root them out.
Still, a "Niagara" makes a change from the usual Tsunami. The Tsunami ...Read More...
Posted on 02/06/2012 7:09 AM by Mary Jackson
Monday, 6 February 2012
Stop nouning those verbs
If you're going to noun verbs (or verb nouns) there should be a takeaway. It should make your prose more impactful. In an otherwise competent review of the political thriller Borgen, The Guardian's Vicky Frost is trending silly:
Borgen has painted a skilful portrait of a woman whose political ...Read More...
Posted on 02/06/2012 6:24 AM by Mary Jackson
Friday, 3 February 2012
The Corrections
For the second time I take my red pen to a piece of anodyne reporting about Islam, this time from the well-intentioned but essentially clueless Harry's Place. That site regularly reports on Muslims behaving badly but labours, laboriously, under the misapprehension that this bad behaviour has nothing ...Read More...
Posted on 02/03/2012 1:45 PM by Mary Jackson
Monday, 30 January 2012
The Colo(u)r Purple
David Cameron fights the good fight against racism. From Newsbiscuit:
With allegations of racism hitting the headlines at an exponential rate, the government has acted to eliminate all prejudices based on skin colour with a sweeping, nationwide initiative. Beginning in the summer of this year, the ...Read More...
Posted on 01/30/2012 7:01 AM by Mary Jackson
Sunday, 29 January 2012
Jonathan Meades on vegetablists
For my views on vegetablists and other pointless persons see here. As for Jonathan Meades, he needs to get off the fence and tell us what he really thinks:
...Read More...
Posted on 01/29/2012 12:09 PM by Mary Jackson
Saturday, 28 January 2012
The Corrections
Apologies to Jonathan Franzen for nicking his book title for a new regular column. We are not in the same business, so there is no tort of passing off, although I refuse to rule out the lesser tort of pissing off. Every now and again, perhaps weekly, I will be taking an article from the mainstream press ...Read More...
Posted on 01/28/2012 8:50 AM by Mary Jackson
Saturday, 28 January 2012
When did you last see your farther?
Further or farther, which would you rather? I always thought there was some significance in the distinction between "further" and "farther" that I hadn't grasped. Nothing could be further - but perhaps not farther - from the truth. Dot Wordsworth furthers our understanding in ...Read More...
Posted on 01/28/2012 8:44 AM by Mary Jackson
Saturday, 28 January 2012
Hello sailor
Those Navy Seals are getting a little too clubbable. Common language division alert from The Telegraph (thanks to Esmerelda for finding this gem):
Documents released by the Pentagon show that the military is urgently refitting the USS Ponce, a 1960s transport ship, so that it can accommodate the speed ...Read More...
Posted on 01/28/2012 8:36 AM by Mary Jackson
Friday, 27 January 2012
Tea realms?
Is Charles Moore onto something? Is the Pope a Catholic?
Reading Anne Somerset’s excellent new biography of Queen Anne, I found myself returning to some of the most famous lines of Pope. In ‘The Rape of the Lock’, he says, ‘Here thou, great Anna, whom three realms obey,/ Doth ...Read More...
Posted on 01/27/2012 12:56 PM by Mary Jackson
Thursday, 26 January 2012
Pseudsday Thursday
Don't get me wrong -- I like "Because the Night". But sometimes a singer should shut up and sing. And a writer should just shut up. Cheers, Luc Sante:
The system (Patti) Smith bled from language was an oracular nonstop cavalcade of words hurled like sixteenth notes, powered by a rhythm ...Read More...
Posted on 01/26/2012 2:39 PM by Mary Jackson
Wednesday, 25 January 2012
Pseudsday Tuesday (on a Wednesday)
What in Heaven's name -- or Hell's -- is an Agape Restaurant? Something like a Happy Eater, where the diner was always mouth agape, ready and waiting for the grub to drop in?
Not at all. For best-selling brainbox Alain de Botton, who just happens to be a multi-millionaire, nourishment is ...Read More...
Posted on 01/25/2012 11:35 AM by Mary Jackson
Sunday, 22 January 2012
Boko Haram, not to be confused ...
Posted on 01/22/2012 7:28 AM by Mary Jackson
Friday, 20 January 2012
Dozy bint of the week
The Guardian reports on a new course at the now not-so-new University of East Anglia on Women, Islam and the Media. The course is run by this week's dozy bint, Elyem Akatav. Since The Guardian approves, one can imagine the line that this course will take -- violence against women isn't happening, ...Read More...
Posted on 01/20/2012 8:55 AM by Mary Jackson
Thursday, 19 January 2012
Grammar schools would put us in Premier League
In Britain, you can be too clever by half, but there is no such thing as too sporty by half, writes Allison Pearson in The Telegraph:
Is Stephen Twigg out of his tree? The shadow education secretary is trying to get Liberal Democrat MPs to join Labour in fighting a change in national admission rules ...Read More...
Posted on 01/19/2012 4:51 AM by Mary Jackson
Wednesday, 18 January 2012
Upstairs Downstairs Abbey
Posted on 01/18/2012 1:49 PM by Mary Jackson
Wednesday, 18 January 2012
Unknown unknown
If you go to Wikipedia today, you will see this:
For now you can cheat by looking at the cached version or the French version, but what if Wikipedia disappears altogether? It will be like the old days when nobody knew anything.
...Read More...
Posted on 01/18/2012 10:31 AM by Mary Jackson
Tuesday, 17 January 2012
Ayah on the bay'ah
And Allah knows best. The Little Book of Hadith from Khalifah:
Al-Bukhari narrated from ‘Ubadah bin As-Samit (ra) who said, "We were with the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم in an assembly and he صلى الله عليه وسلم said, ‘Give me the bay'ah on condition that you do not associate anything ...Read More...
Posted on 01/17/2012 1:29 PM by Mary Jackson
Tuesday, 17 January 2012
Oh for God's sake
From the BBC:
Radical cleric Abu Qatada has won his appeal against deportation to Jordan.
The European Court of Human Rights said that the preacher could not be removed from the UK because of Jordan's record on torture.
The Strasbourg judges accepted that the UK's deal with Jordan over treatment ...Read More...
Posted on 01/17/2012 3:43 AM by Mary Jackson
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