Time for a kingdom offensive We’ve been writing about the intolerance of Islamism and atheism. In this last post in the series we will briefly treat the matter of an offensive engagement in this war. The war from the East will not be won with bombs and bullets. It will
Is a global caliphate coming? Since 9/11 the United States and the Western world have been fighting jihad with bombs and bullets, as if armament could win a war of ideas. Certainly a nation must be free to protect itself, but a war that is grounded in ideas and moral
Sharia is not friendly to freedom Professor Allan Bloom opens his 1987 classic, The Closing of the American Mind, with this provocative statement: “There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative….” While at
Pluralism is grounded in the Judeo-Christian worldview “When Muslims are in the minority, they complain about being oppressed. But the minute they become the majority, they become real oppressors because of the inherent intolerance of their culture.” So writes Ed Straker in American Thinker. He is describing one of the
The recent attacks on the West by radical jihadists have prompted many people to ask, Do Muslims and Christians worship the same God? In 638 AD, when the Muslims conquered Jerusalem, they sought to create a symbol of the superiority of Islam by building the Dome of the Rock on
Is this what modesty means? Recently a Ghanaian friend wrote to me about the changing standard of decency in West Africa. Two beautiful young women–an actress and a beauty pageant winner–stirred debate among Ghanaians by the way they dressed for a music-awards event. Their dresses, according to some, were “revealing,” “indecent,” “daring,”
Euthanasia in Europe on the increase We’ve already witnessed the spiritual demise of Europe. Can its physical demise be far behind? In early May, Brussels Airport finally re-opened after being closed for nearly six weeks, following the March terrorist attack that killed sixteen people. While it will not be back
By UpstateNYer – Own work So much of today’s news seems unreal. Middle Eastern Muslim mobs molesting and raping German women in front of the Cologne cathedral, for example. It presents a troubling tale of two religions: a powerless Christian orthodoxy in the grip of a merciless Islamic fist.
“Pursue no woman to her tears.” I found these lovely words in a poem called The Honor Men by James Hay, Jr. More about that below. Today’s pervasive global culture is largely misogynist: men act like brutes and women are driven to tears. For the most part, life in every
Muslim terrorism has triggered an insider movement toward Muslim reformation. One of the most troubling facts about Islamic terrorism today is the sheer growth in the numbers of people willing to pursue violent jihad. David and Nancy French wrote about this recently. They pointed out that, given “Boko Haram, the Al-Nusra
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