The Iconoclast

A Literary Interlude: Enobarbus Describes Cleopatra (Shakespeare)

April 17, 2015
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Hugh Fitzgerald

Once upon a time young pupils (aged 12? 13?) in American schools would routinely be tasked with memorizing such passages, and declaiming them with suitable expression. And now? Now they’re […]

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FBI Holds “Special” Meeting in Juárez to Address ISIS, DHS Not Invited

April 17, 2015
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Rebecca Bynum

From report earlier this week of ISIS activity along the Mexican border, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) supervisors called a “special” meeting at the U.S. Consulate in Ciudad Juárez. A […]

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What Sweden Is — So Unnecessarily — Doing To Itself

April 17, 2015
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Hugh Fitzgerald

Here.

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Muslim women should be allowed to wear the veil in court, top judge suggests

April 17, 2015
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Esmerelda Weatherwax

This is the result of 20 years of the Judicial Diversity Division of Ministry of Justice, Judicial Group (or whatever they call themselves these days) ensuring that only lawyers who […]

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Army Privates Shot at Little Rock Army Recruiting Center in June 2009 Receive Purple Hearts

April 16, 2015
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Jerry Gordon

Pvt.  Quinton Ezeagwula on left and the late Pvt. William “Andy“ Long on right News came  today  that the Pentagon has relented and awarded Purple Hearts  to two  Army Privates […]

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Ivan Rioufol: The Socialist State And The Destruction Of French Education

April 16, 2015
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Hugh Fitzgerald

“Reforms” in the name of egalitarianism, of course. And the word “grammaire” will no longer be mentioned until too late in what will now be a game.. Where will they […]

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Danish Conservatives: "Stop Nazi Islamism" Campaign

April 16, 2015
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Hugh Fitzgerald

Here.

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Lebanese Journalist: Getting Rid Of The Al Saud As Important As Wiping Out Israel

April 16, 2015
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Hugh Fitzgerald

Here.

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Sunni Syrian Scholar: Iran Is The Worst Enemy Of The Sunnis

April 16, 2015
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Hugh Fitzgerald

Here.

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Muslim Migrants Threw Christians Overboard

April 16, 2015
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Rebecca Bynum

And the horrors just keep on coming…

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Auberon Waugh in The New Statesman 9/22/75

April 16, 2015
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David P. Gontar

Something from The New Statesman by Auberon Waugh (1975):   Not far from where I live in Southern France there runs a small canal called La Rigole. It is a […]

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To Punish The Pope, Turkey Will Turn Hagia Sophia Into A Mosque

April 16, 2015
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Hugh Fitzgerald

It was under Ataturk that Hagia Sophia became a museum — it would have been too much to hope that it might have again become a church both for the […]

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John F. Burns, Times Correspondent, Now Retired, Offers A Valedictory

April 16, 2015
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Hugh Fitzgerald

It appeared in The New York Times on April 11. He talks about a fellow journalist, Tiziano Terziani, about covering Russia and China and Afghanistan and Iraq and South Africa […]

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Two Sunnis On Why Obama Favors Iran

April 16, 2015
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Hugh Fitzgerald

Here. The first one sees the origins of his favoring Iran (does he? only, it seems,  when it comes to Israel. In Yemen, and in Syria, he supports those opposed […]

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Rotherham Worker ‘Told To Give Girls To Abusers’

April 16, 2015
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Esmerelda Weatherwax

A whistleblower who repeatedly tried to expose the full extent of child sex abuse in Rotherham has told

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Gerard Larcher: In France Religions (That Is, Islam) Must Yield To The Laws Of The Laic State

April 15, 2015
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Hugh Fitzgerald

Here. And much more, from Ivan Rioufol, on what Larcher — the President of the French Senate — has done in his report, to address directly the well-founded fears of […]

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