The Iconoclast

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by Michael Curtis Here they are, two groups of sleepy people by dawn’s early light, and too much to discuss about Brexit to say good night.  The difficult is done at once; the impossible takes a little longer. On October 17, 2019 after three years of discussion in Britain and in the European ...Read More...

From Sky News France's interior minister Christophe Castaner told France 2 (that) intelligence officers have foiled a terror plot inspired by the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Centre in New York City. According to Le Parisien, he was looking for a weapon to help with hijacking a plane. The ...Read More...

The Kurds are far from being unified and reliable U.S. allies, and Trump had little choice but to withdraw our few hundred troops. by Conrad Black The controversy over President Trump’s pullout on the Turkish–Syrian border will settle down quickly. It is another useful debunking of ancient ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald In Bologna, the Catholic diocese recently decided that for the Feast of San Petronio this year, there would be no pork-filled tortellini. Though these tortellini are the pride of Bolognese cuisine, Archbishop Matteo Zuppi (just chosen by Pope Francis to be a cardinal) decided ...Read More...

This may be a bit small scale and local (to me) but I bet its multiplied all over the west. From the East London Advertiser. Which used to be where my uncle looked for a decent used car, but is now the best place for news of the jihad and hijrah in East London.  An under-fire aid charity has accused ...Read More...

This happened near Molenbeek last week. The only English reports I can find are two near identical articles in Jewish News/Times of Israel and The Jewish Telegraphic Agency.  The original report in Flemish is with Het Laatste Nieuws (HLN,) partly behind a paywall, and Google translate will only take ...Read More...

by Theodore Dalrymple A paradigm shift is a sudden change in fundamental assumptions about, or way of looking at, the world. Senator Elizabeth Warren illustrated one of the most startling ones of recent years with the answer that she gave to a question put to her recently on television. “How ...Read More...

Dr. Rich Swier writes: “The beauty of the Internet is that it connects people. The value is in the other people. If we start to believe that the Internet itself is an entity that has something to say, we’re devaluing those people and making ourselves into idiots.” – Jaron Lanier, “Digital Maoism: ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald The controversy last week in France, over why French officials failed to act on all the warning signs that Mickaël Harpon gave that he was in sympathy with jihad violence and hence might one day engage in jihad himself, recalls the instructive case of Khalid Masood, which revealed ...Read More...

From News.com Australia Ahmed Mohamed strolls casually through the front doors of the Bunnings Warehouse store in Broadmeadows in Melbourne’s northwest like he is any other customer. But what fellow shoppers did not know at the time is that the 27-year-old was shopping for everything he needed to ...Read More...

From the Telegraph and the Daily Mail An alleged female jihadist has appeared in court accused of plotting to blow up St Paul's Cathedral in a suicide attack. Safiyya Amira Shaikh, from Hayes, Middlesex, was arrested last week and charged in connection with the alleged Islamic State of Iraq and ...Read More...

From the Jerusalem Post and the Daily Mail PARIS - A French court on Monday handed down sentences of at least 25 years in jail to two women with ties to Islamist militants. The women had made a failed attempt to set off a crude car bomb outside of Paris's Notre-Dame cathedral three years ago, the ...Read More...

Petr Svab writes in the Epoch Times: Dr. Michael Rectenwald, a former professor at New York University and author of “The Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom", in New York City on Oct. 4, 2019. (Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times) Giant tech companies, particularly ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald From the Netherlands, these second thoughts on Muslim migrants passed with little notice, but are even more important today than when they were first enunciated: A former Shell CEO, who volunteers in giving education to migrants in the Netherlands, gave some shocking examples ...Read More...