We need cultural tools to fight a cultural war. We can’t bomb ideas out of their heads. Ayaan Hirsi Ali to the Sunday Times  

Sean Spicer was wrong in seeking to bolster his argument against Assad by referring to Hitler, and his political opponents are wrong in exploiting the tragedy of the Holocaust to score partisan points against him.

The West needs to invest in an ideological war against radical Islam. If terrorist violence is the jihadi hardware, its software is radical Islam.

Hva er sammenhengen mellom sløret og lastebilen? En formastelig tanke i sosialdemokratiet. Hvis det er sant fremmer myndighetene ideologien som produserer terror.

An analysis of the political appointments to the different agencies within the U.S. national security apparatus shows that the key members of the president’s foreign policy team hold widely divergent views on the threat posed by radical Islam — and on the nature of Islam itself.

Current foreign policy advisors can be roughly divided into several competing factions and ideological schisms: career staffers versus political appointees, civilian strategists versus military tacticians, Trump supporters versus Obama loyalists, politically correct consensus-seekers versus politically incorrect ideologues, New York moderates versus populist hardliners, Palestinian sympathizers versus advocates for Israel, proponents of the Iran deal versus […]

Den franske forfatter Ivan Rioufol skriver i sin udkomne bog La guerre civile qui vient (Borgerkrigen, der kommer): “Faren udgøres ikke af Front National, der kun er et udtryk for et forladt folks vrede. Faren udgøres af de stadigt tættere bånd mellem venstrefløjen og islamismen

  Foto: DR og andre medier har i lang tid brugt argumentet om, at muslimer er de største ofre for islamisk terror. Måske bliver argumentet ikke lige så yndet, når det går op for dem, at også intern islamisk vold forplanter sig til Europa. Sufierne, som ofte fremhæves som islams bløde side, har i årevis […]

Nick Cohen called it “the first fatwa of the white left”: The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has compiled a list of 15 “anti-Islamic extremists”. Among them are Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Maajid Nawaz.

History suggests that when the law makes it illegal to tell the truth, a reliable portion of people can be called upon to lie. So it has been in the past. And so it will be with Canada. So it would be anywhere once the law became an opponent of truth rather than the protector of it.