Articles of the week - 2005

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December 2005
"Judging the case for war" (Chicago Tribune, 2005/12/28)
"Why American Muslims Stay Silent" (Stephen Schwartz, Tech Central Station, 2005/12/22)
"Playing the Racism Card" (Phyllis Chesler, FrontPageMagazine, 2005/12/22)
"Not just Israel's problem" (Amir Taheri, The Jerusalem Post, 2005/12/21)
"'Munich' stands for 'appeasement'" (Kate Wright, The American Thinker, 2005/12/19)
"Millions of Iraqis Vote in Relative Peace" (Robert H. Reid, AP/Yahoo! News, 2005/12/15)
"Bin Laden's script: ghost-written in the West" (Brendan O'Neill, spiked, 2005/12/13)
"Immigrant Rape Wave in Sweden" (Fjordman, fjordman.blogspot.com, 2005/12/12)
"The Panic Over Iraq" (Norman Podhoretz, OpinionJournal, 2005/12/12)
"Cultural flash points" (Diana West, The Washington Times, 2005/12/09)
"This Shameful Ranting Must Stop" (Carol Gould, current viewpoint, 2005/12/07)
"Buried in Amman's Rubble: Zarqawi's Support" (Fawaz Gerges, The Washington Post, 2005/12/04)
"The big black book of horrors" (Rebecca Weisser, The Australian, 2005/12/03)
"The Riot Act" (Nidra Poller, Tech Central Station, 2005/12/02)
"The radical loser" (Hans Magnus Enzensberger, signandsight, 2005/12/01)
"Blair must show leadership in the battle for free expression" (Timothy Garton Ash, The Guardian, 2005/12/01)
"The Truth about Torture" (Charles Krauthammer, The Weekly Standard, 2005/12/04)

November 2005
"The March of the Extremists: Attacks Threaten Religious Harmony in Southeast Asia" (Jürgen Kremb, Der Spiegel, 2005/11/21)
"The Anti-Anti-Americans" (Paul Berman, The New Republic, 2005/11/21)
"How To Lose A War" (Ralph Peters, New York Post, 2005/11/21)
"France at the brink" (Alex Alexiev, The San Diego Union-Tribune, 2005/11/20)
"Barricaded in Paris" (Mireille Silcoff, National Post, 2005/11/19)
"The death of an easygoing culture" (Anthony Browne, The Times, 2005/11/19)
"What sort of Frenchmen are they?" (Dror Mishani and Aurelia Smotriez, Haaretz, 2005/11/17)
"Not all Muslims want to integrate" (Bruce Bawer, The Christian Science Monitor, 2005/11/17)
"Muslim apartheid burns bright in France" (Minette Marrin, The Sunday Times, 2005/11/13)
"Pekgul leaves suburb because of violence" (Olof Sjölander, Sveriges Radio, 2005/11/10)
"For Public Figures in Netherlands, Terror Becomes a Personal Concern" (Craig Whitlock, The Washington Post, 2005/11/11)
"It’s the demography, stupid" (Mark Steyn, The Spectator, 2005/11/12)
"Intifada a la francaise" (Nidra Poller, National Post, 2005/11/08)
"Rioting in France: What's Wrong with Europe?" (Rüdiger Falksohn et al., Der Spiegel, 2005/11/07)
"A Sense Of Foreboding: German Reactions to Ahmadinejad" (Matthias Küntzel, Transatlantic Intelligencer, 2005/11/07)
"Paris When It Sizzles" (Olivier Guitta, The Weekly Standard, 2005/11/14)
"Why Paris Is Burning" (Amir Taheri, New York Post, 2005/11/04)
"Paris Burning" (Robert Spencer, FrontPage Magazine, 2005/11/04)
"Ramadan Rioting in Europe's No-Go Areas" (Paul Belien, The Brussels Journal, 2005/11/02)
"The Suicide Bombers Among Us" (Theodore Dalrymple, City Journal, Autumn 2005)
"A Year of Living Dangerously" (Francis Fukuyama, The Wall Street Journal, 2005/11/02)
"Defending and Advancing Freedom" (Commentary, November 2005)
"Open Season on Muslim Women" (Robert Spencer, FrontPage Magazine, 2005/11/01)

October 2005
"Iranian President at Tehran Conference: 'Very Soon, This Stain of Disgrace [i.e. Israel] Will Vanish from the Center of the Islamic World - and This is Attainable'" (MEMRI, Special Dispatch Series - No. 1013, 2005/10/28)
"Jonathan Steele's Horror" (Harry, Harry's Place, 2005/10/26)
"Iraqis vote for new constitution" (BBC News, 2005/10/25)
"Born in Bradford" (Kenan Malik, Prospect, from the October 2005 issue)
"U.N. Report Sees Syrian Involvement in Hariri's Death" (Robin Wright and Colum Lynch, The Washington Post, 2005/10/21)
"Don't hurry over Saddam. The whole Arab world needs to watch this trial" (Amir Taheri, The Times, 2005/10/19)
"Iraqi vote victory" (Ralph Peters, New York Post, 2005/10/18)
"Iraqi Victory, American Achievement" (Walid Phares, World Defense Review, 2005/10/17)
"Large Turnout for Iraq Constitution Vote" (Lee Keith, AP/Yahoo! News, 2005/10/15
"al-Qaeda No. 2: U.S. 'ran' from Vietnam" (AP/USA Today, 2005/10/12)
"Self-delusion kills" (Nick Cohen, The Observer, 2005/10/09)
"'Anti-Semitism isn't a local side effect of a dirty war over a patch of land smaller than Wales...'" (Nick Cohen, New Statesman, from the 2005/10/10 issue)
"The Quiet Americans" (Rob Anderson, The New Republic, 2005/10/06)
"No deal with death" (Andrew Bolt, Herald Sun, 2005/10/05)
"A chilling message for the infidels" (Scott Atran, The First Post, October 2005)
"Whose al-Qaida problem?" (Sasha Abramsky, openDemocracy, 2005/10/04)
"Why Ask Why?" (Christopher Hitchens, Slate, 2005/10/03)

September 2005
"Mr. Flanigan's Answers" (The Washington Post, 2005/09/28)
"Heart of Darkness" (Foaud Ajami, The Wall Street Journal, 2005/09/28)
"A Matter of Honor" (Ian Fishback, The Washington Post, 2005/09/28)
"Enforce Islamic Law in Canada?" (Daniel Pipes, New York Sun/danielpipes.org, 2005/09/27)
"The left and hysteria" (Dennis Prager, Town Hall, 2005/09/27)
"Global war on women" (Ralph Peters, USA Today, 2005/09/26)
"Anti-War, My Foot" (Christopher Hitchens, Slate, 2005/09/26)
"Pattern of Abuse" (Adam Zagorin, TIME, 2005/09/23)
"'Next Time, You'll Be Executed': A young, gay Iranian torture victim speaks out" (Doug Ireland, Gay City News, 2005/09/20)
"Saddam's Revenge" (Joe Klein, TIME, 2005/09/18)
"The big showdown" (Andrew Anthony, The Observer, 2005/09/18)
"Pallywood - 'According to Palestinian Sources...'" (The Second Draft, September 2005)
"Why do we tolerate intolerance?" (Rod Liddle, The Spectator, from the 2005/09/17 issue)
"'An Islamist threat like the Nazis'" (Tony Blankley, The Washington Times, 2005/09/12)
"Appease zealots at your peril" (David Selbourne, The Sunday Times, 2005/09/11)
"Ditch Holocaust day, advisers urge Blair" (Abul Taher, The Sunday Times, 2005/09/11)
"Myth, Fact, and the al-Dura Affair" (Nidra Poller, Commentary, from the September 2005 issue)

August 2005
"Jihadism's roots in political Islam" (Bassam Tibi, International Herald Tribune, 2005/08/30)
"Beslan mothers: Putin is culpable" (Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 2005/08/29)
"How to Win in Iraq" (Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr., Foreign Affairs, from the September/October 2005 issue)
"Bush vs. the Mother" (Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone, 2005/08/25)
"Anti-Israel Venom at University of Illinois Paper" (Deborah Passner, CAMERA, 2005/08/24)
"The Intellectuals and Socialism: As Seen from a Post-Communist Country Situated in Predominantly Post-Democratic Europe" (Václav Klaus, klaus.cz, 2005/08/22)
"Text of Proposed Iraq Constitution" (AP/The New York Times, 2005/08/22)
"Top job fighting extremism for Muslim who praised bomber" (Alasdair Palmer, The Sunday Telegraph, 2005/08/21)
"United in hate" (Douglas Davis, The Spectator, from the 2005/08/20 issue)
"Unfree Under Islam: Shariah endangers women's rights, from Iraq to Canada" (Ayaan Hirsi Ali, The Wall Street Journal, 2005/08/16)
"Inside Iran's Secret War for Iraq" (Michael Ware, TIME, 2005/08/14)
"Iran's revolution is in its infancy - but it may have just found its Stalin" (Niall Ferguson, The Sunday Telegraph, 2005/08/14)
"U.S. Lowers Sights On What Can Be Achieved in Iraq" (Robin Wright and Ellen Knickmeyer, The Washington Post, 2005/08/14)
"Radical links of UK's 'moderate' Muslim group" (Martin Bright, The Observer, 2005/08/14)
"Boy ready for martyrdom" (Matthew B. Stannard, San Fransisco Chronicle, 2005/08/12)
"What al-Qaida Really Wants" (Yassin Musharbash, Der Spiegel, 2005/08/12)
"Al Qaeda and the Guardian" (David T, Harry's Place, 2005/08/11)
"I still fight oppression" (Nick Cohen, The Observer, 2005/08/07)
"Undercover in the academy of hatred" (The Sunday Times, 2005/08/07)
"Death of an idealist" (Tony Allen-Mills, The Sunday Times, 2005/08/07)
"From Vincent to van Gogh" (Caroline B. Glick, The Jerusalem Post, 2005/08/05)
"A British jihadist" (Aatish Taseer, Prospect, from the August 2005 issue)
"The Naive American" (Steven Vincent, In the Red Zone, 2005/07/29)
"In a Ruined Country: How Yasir Arafat destroyed Palestine" (David Samuels, The Atlantic, from the September 2005 issue)

July 2005
"British MP George Galloway in Syria: Foreigners Are Raping Two Beautiful Arab Daughters - Jerusalem and Baghdad" (MEMRI TV, 2005/07/31)
"Confronted with our own decadence" (Minette Marrin, The Sunday Times, 2005/07/31)
"That Huw Edwards is a nice man" (brownie, Harry's Place, 2005/07/29)
"Clerical Error: The Dangers of Tolerance" (Peter Bergen and Paul Cruickshank, The New Republic, 2005/07/29)
"The myth of moderate Islam" (Patrick Sookhdeo, The Spectator, from the 2005/07/30 issue)
"Preparing for a shipwreck in the Middle East" (Michael Young, The Daily Star, 2005/07/28)
"The West's not anti-Islam — it just gives rights to women" (Mary Ann Sieghart, The Times, 2005/07/28)
"When the Profile Fits the Crime" (Paul Sperry, The New York Times, 2005/07/28)
"The benefit bombers who repaid help with hatred" (Steve Bird et al., The Times, 2005/07/27)
"The Muslim mind is on fire" (Youssef M. Ibrahim, Middle East Times, 2005/07/26)
"The Enemy We Treat Like A Friend" (Oriana Fallaci, Corriere Della Sera/Mystery Achievement, 2005/07/23-24)
"Will anyone rise to take al-Qaeda's bait?" (Fraser Nelson, Scotland on Sunday, 2005/07/24)
"One in four Muslims sympathises with motives of terrorists" (Anthony King, The Daily Telegraph, 2005/07/23)
"Why Do They Hate Us? Not Because of Iraq" (Olivier Roy, The New York Times, 2005/07/22)
"London hit again" (Ben Fenton and John Steele, The Daily Telegraph , 2005/07/22)
"There are apologists amongst us" (Norman Geras, The Guardian, 2005/07/21)
"Islamists versus Gays" (Andrew Sullivan, andrewsullivan.com, 2005/07/20)
"The men who blame Britain" (George Jones, The Daily Telegraph, 2005/07/20)
"The struggle for Islam's soul" (Ziauddin Sardar, New Statesman, 2005/07/18)
"Suicide Bombs Potent Tools of Terrorists" (Dan Eggen and Scott Wilson, The Washington Post, 2005/07/17)
"The beginning of the reckoning" (Caroline Glick, The Jerusalem Post, 2005/07/15)
"Homeland insecurity" (Ian Buruma, Financial Times, 2005/07/15)
"Support for bin Laden falls in Muslim countries" (Alan Elsner, Reuters/Yahoo! News, 2005/07/14)
"They tried to make me a suicide bomber" (Matt Roper, The Daily Mirror, 2005/07/14)
"Are you ready? Tomorrow you will be in Paradise..." (Nasra Hassan, The Times, 2005/07/14)
"Suicide Car Bomber Kills 18 Iraqi Kids" (Qassim Abdul-Zahra, AP/Yahoo! News, 2005/07/13)
"Four London bomb suspects identified" (Michael Holden, Reuters/Yahoo! News, 2005/07/12)
"Suspect in Dutch filmmaker's murder makes dramatic court room confession" (AFP/Yahoo! News, 2005/07/12)
"A mosque for ex-Nazis became center of radical Islam" (Ian Johnson, The Wall Street Journal/post-gazette.com, 2005/07/12)
"As Muslims call Europe home, isolation takes root" (Ian Johnson and John Carreyrou, The Wall Street Journal/post-gazette.com, 2005/07/11)
"The BBC discovers 'terrorism,' briefly" (Tom Gross, The Jerusalem Post, 2005/07/11)
"Face up to the truth" (Nick Cohen, The Observer, 2005/07/10)
"The horror" (The Observer, 2005/07/10)
"For a Decade, London Thrived as a Busy Crossroads of Terror" (Elaine Sciolino and Don Van Natta Jr., The New York Times, 2005/07/10)
"Where is the Gandhi of Islam?" (Charles Moore, The Daily Telegraph, 2005/07/09)
"Four London Blasts Kill 37, Injure 700" (Jane Wardell, AP/ABC News, 2005/07/07)
"Cruel Britannia" (Robert S. Wistrich, Azure, from the Summer 2005 issue)
"Europe's Angry Muslims" (Robert S. Leiken, Foreign Affairs/RealClearPolitics, from the July/August 2005 issue)
"The Neoconservative Convergence" (Charles Krauthammer, Commentary, from the July 2005 issue)

June 2005
"Iran leader linked to '79 embassy crisis" (Joyce Howard Price and David R. Sands, The Washington Times, 2005/06/30)
"'My dream was to be a suicide bomber. I wanted to kill 20, 50 Jews. Yes, even babies'" (Manuela Dviri, The Sunday Telegraph, 2005/06/26)
"What's the Matter with Gitmo?" (Reuel Marc Gerecht, The Weekly Standard, from the 2005/07/04 issue)
"Local Insurgents: ‘Islamic Thinkers’ Menace Gay N.Y." (Ben Smith and Jessica Bruder, The New York Observer, 2005/06/23)
"Hitler, Hitler, everywhere" (Victor Davis Hanson, Jewish World Review, 2005/06/23)
"Prophet of Decline: An interview with Oriana Fallaci" (Tunku Varadarajan, The Wall Street Journal, 2005/06/23)
"Smiling at anti-Semitism" (Eric Fettmann, New York Post, 2005/06/23)
"The Hyperbolic Opposition" (Ryan Sager, Tech Central Station, 2005/06/22)
"Remarks at the American University in Cairo" (Condoleezza Rice, U.S. Department of State, 2005/06/20)
"Female bomber: Attack aimed at youth" (Margot Dudkevitch, The Jerusalem Post, 2005/06/20)
"The War is Over, and We Won" (Karl Zinsmeister, The American Enterprise, 2005/06/20)
"The Sorry Bunch" (Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 2005/06/17)
"Muslim Target" (Robert Spencer, FrontPageMagazine, 2005/06/14)
"Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis" (John W. Whitehead, oldSpeak, 2005/06/09)
"The Dutch-Muslim Culture War" (Deborah Scroggins, The Nation/Yahoo! News, 2005/06/09)
"Piss and wind" (Mark Steyn, The Spectator, from the 2005/06/11 issue)
"Outside Iraq but Deep in the Fight" (Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, The Washington Post, 2005/06/08)
"Gitmo Grovel: Enough Already" (Charles Krauthammer, The Washington Post, 2005/06/03)
"J'Accuse" (Tom Gross, The Wall Street Journal, 2005/06/02)
"Intimidated by extremists" (Frida Ghitis, International Herald Tribune, 2005/06/01)

May 2005
"Pressure Points" (Lawrence F. Kaplan, The New Republic, 2005/05/31)
"Death of a Marine" (Jeff Jacoby, The Boston Globe, 2005/05/29)
"Hirsi Ali: the empowered apostate" (Andrew G. Bostom, The American Thinker, 2005/05/27)
"Republican crisis biggest in US since Second World War. Well, almost" (Gerard Baker, The Times, 2005/05/27)
"The 18 things you can't say about Muslims in Italy" (Chris Newman, Dagger in hand, 2005/05/26)
"Leaving the left" (Keith Thompson, San Fransisco Chronicle, 2005/05/22)
"Unmitigated Galloway" (Christopher Hitchens, The Weekly Standard, from the 2005/05/30 issue)
"Leaving No French Islamist Behind" (Olivier Guitta, The Weekly Standard, 2005/05/20)
"Kim Beazley's Friend" (Tim Blair, timblair.net, 2005/05/19)
"Suicidal Tendencies in the West" (Bruce Thornton, VDH's Private Papers, 2005/05/18)
"Danger woman" (Alexander Linklater, The Guardian, 2005/05/17)
"Bush Country" (Fouad Ajami, The Wall Street Journal/FDD, 2005/05/16)
"The Press’ Abu Ghraib: Newsweek Apologizes, After 15 People Are Dead" (Austin Bay, austinbay.net, 2005/05/15)
"The Mystery of the Insurgency" (James Bennet, The New York Times, 2005/05/15)
"'We Must Declare War on Islamist Propaganda'" (Der Spiegel, 2005/05/14)
"It may be Europe's most liberal city - but if you are gay, you had best beware" (Anthony Browne, The Times, 2005/05/14)
"Retaking the university: a battle plan" (Roger Kimball, The New Criterion, from the May 2005 issue)
"Some atomic arm-twisting" (Henry Kissinger, The Australian, 2005/05/11)
"So, some people think I'm rightwing..." (David Aaronovitch, The Guardian, 2005/05/10)
"Abu Ghraib Isn't Guernica" (Christopher Hitchens, Slate, 2005/05/09)
"Against Rendition" (Reuel Marc Gerecht, The Weekly Standard, from the 2005/05/16 issue)
"al-Qaida's No. 3 Man Arrested in Pakistan" (Paul Haven, AP/The Guardian, 2005/05/04)
"Perhaps the neocons got it right in the Middle East" (Max Hastings, The Guardian, 2005/05/04)
"Looking hate in the face" (Chris Crain, Washington Blade, 2005/05/03)
"The Holocaust fetish" (Caroline Glick, The Jerusalem Post, 2005/05/02)
"The Visionary: Tales from the Wolfowitz era" (Stephen F. Hayes, The Weekly Standard, from the 2005/05/09 issue)
"Bush, the Great Shiite Liberator" (Lee Smith, The New York Times, 2005/05/01)

April 2005
"Freedom and Justice in the Modern Middle East" (Bernard Lewis, Foreign Affairs/RealClear Politics, from the May/June 2005 issue)
"Debacle" (Norm Geras, normblog, 2005/04/26)
"Norwegian preacher kindles religious strife" (Jonathan Tisdall, Aftenposten, 2005/04/22)
"Hate mob attacks Galloway" (Paul Waugh and Flora Stubbs, The Evening Standard, 2005/04/20)
"From election launch to PR panic" (Dominic Casciani, BBC News, 2005/04/19)
"Dear Diary" (Efraim Karsh, The New Republic, 2005/04/19)
"Our Not-So-Wise Experts" (Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 2005/04/15)
"Bush vs. Democracy" (Caroline Glick, The Jerusalem Post, 2005/04/15)
"The Muslim media's culture of death" (Shoaib Choudhury, The Jerusalem Post, 2005/04/12)
"Woman walking with fiance murdered" (Khaled Abu Toameh, The Jerusalem Post, 2005/04/12)
"Jewish MP pelted with eggs at war memorial" (Richard Alleyne, The Daily Telegraph, 2005/04/11)
"Afghan Women Prepare to Take Wheel" (N.C. Aizenman, The Washington Post, 2005/04/11)
"U.S. Commanders See Possible Cut in Troops in Iraq" (Eric Schmitt, The New York Times, 2005/04/11)
"Pulitzer Prize Given to Terrorists" (Rusty Shackleford, The Jawa Report, 2005/04/04)
"Daughter of the Enlightenment" (Christopher Caldwell, The New York Times Magazine, 2005/04/03)
"Islam's grand wizard of deception" (Steven Emerson, WorldNetDaily, 2005/04/02)

March 2005
"The Politics of Churlishness" (Martin Peretz, The New Republic, 2005/03/31)
"Report Says U.S. Intelligence 'Dead Wrong' on Iraq" (Steve Holland and Adam Entous, Reuters, 2005/03/31)
"What Set Loose the Voice of the People" (Dexter Filkins, The New York Times, 2005/03/27)
"The Case The Saudis Can't Make" (Faiza Saleh Ambah, The Washington Post, 2005/03/27)
"News Real" (Lawrence F. Kaplan, The New Republic, 2005/03/24)
"The Soft Power Summit" (Thomas Joscelyn, The Weekly Standard, 2005/03/23)
"A Labour anti-semite?" (Stephen Pollard, stephenpollard.net, 2005/03/22)
"'Mein Kampf' becomes Turkey bestseller, raising the question: Why?" (AP/The Jerusalem Post, 2005/03/18)
"What's Left? Shame." (Charles Krauthammer, The Washington Post, 2005/03/18)
"'Something was going to happen – it was going to be me or him'" (Nicholas Blanford et al., The Times, 2005/03/18)
"Million Lebanese Stage Massive Retort to Terrorists" (Claudia Rosett, New York Sun, 2005/03/15)
"The Muslim Brotherhood's Conquest of Europe" (Lorenzo Vidino, The Middle East Quarterly, from the Winter 2005 issue)
"Will the Mideast Bloom?" (Youssef M. Ibrahim, The Washington Post, 2005/03/13)
"Looting at Iraqi Weapons Plants Was Systematic, Official Says" (James Glanz and William J. Broad, The New York Times, 2005/03/13)
"The London and Paris 'street' is still roiling'" (Amir Taheri, The Jerusalem Post, 2005/03/09)
"Why Muslim girls cover up for Islam" (Thair Shaikh, The Guardian, 2005/03/05)
"The Face of Iraqi Terrorism" (Stephen Schwartz, The Weekly Standard, 2005/03/04)
"The Road to Damascus" (Charles Krauthammer, The Washington Post, 2005/03/04)
"Al Jazeera has a good effect on the Arab street" (Ali, Free Iraqi, 2005/03/03)
"The shoe bomber from a Gloucester grammar" (Sean O’Neill and Stewart Tendler, The Times, 2005/03/01)

February 2005
"Lebanese Government Resigns Amid Protests" (Bassem Mroue, AP/The Guardian, 2005/02/28)
"A Mideast Makeover?" (Jackson Diehl, The Washington Post, 2005/02/28)
"More Dutch Plan to Emigrate as Muslim Influx Tips Scales" (Marlise Simons, The New York Times, 2005/02/27)
"Putting the fear of God into Holland" (Brian Moynahan, The Sunday Times Magazine, 2005/02/27)
"The World Turned Upside Down" (Wretchard, Belmont Club, 2005/02/26)
"In Hindsight, The War On Terror Began With Salman Rushdie" (Jonathan Rauch, National Journal, 2005/02/25)
"When Freedom Gets the Death Sentence" (Deutsche Welle, 2005/02/24)
"Anatomy of a French Media Scandal" (Ricki Hollander, CAMERA, 2005/02/23)
"Could George W. Bush Be Right?" (Claus Christian Malzahn, Der Spiegel, 2005/02/23)
"Iran Jails Editor for 14 Years for Insulting Leaders" (Reuters, 2005/02/22)
"Ken has a lot to be sorry for" (Nick Cohen, The Observer, 2005/02/20)
"A Swedish Dilemma" (Christopher Caldwell, The Weekly Standard, from the 2005/02/28 issue)
"Not Much Left" (Martin Peretz, The New Republic, 2005/02/18)
"When Good News Feels Bad" (Kurt Andersen, New York Magazine, from the 2005/02/22 issue)
"The Sick Man of Europe - Again" (Robert L. Pollock, The Wall Street Journal, 2005/02/16)
"9/11: Debunking The Myths" (Popular Mechanics, from the March 2005 issue)
"On culture front, we're losing war" (Mark Steyn, Chicago Sun-Times, 2005/02/13)
"Fear of Islamists Drives Growth of Far Right in Belgium" (Craig S. Smith, The New York Times, 2005/02/12)
"Blogger's 'Crime' Against the Islamic State" (Farouz Farzami, Los Angeles Times, 2005/02/09)
"Urging New Path, Sharon and Abbas Declare Truce" (Steven Erlanger, The New York Times, 2005/02/09)
"The Fighting Islamists of Notre Dame" (Thomas Ryan, FrontPageMagazine, 2005/02/08)
"Drinking with Christopher Hitchens and the Iraqis" (Michael J. Totten, michaeltotten.com, 2005/02/06)
"What Bin Laden Sees in Hiroshima" (Steve Coll, The Washington Post, 2005/02/06)
"A Realigning Election" (Robert Kagan and William Kristol, The Weekly Standard, from the 2005/02/14 issue)
"Like the fall of the Berlin Wall, Iraq's elections will change world history" (Gerard Baker, The Times, 2005/02/04)
"The silence of the feminists" (Pamela Bone, The Age, 2005/02/04)
"Death Threats Nix Love Painting" (Mats Lilja, Expressen, 2005/02/03)
"When Muslims Convert" (Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Commentary, from the February 2005 issue)
"No tolerance, please, we’re Dutch" (Rod Liddle, The Spectator, from the 2005/02/05 issue)
"Fashionable anti-Americanism" (Dominic Hilton, openDemocracy, 2005/02/02)
"The Media Two-step" (HonestReporting, 2005/02/02)
"Paper Over" (Joseph Braude, The New Republic, 2005/02/02)
"The Times responds" (Jeff Jarvis, Buzz Machine, 2005/02/02)
"Iraqis Who Died While Daring to Vote Are Mourned as Martyrs" (Edward Wong, The New York Times, 2005/02/02)
"'There Can Be No End to Jihad'" (Anthony McRoy, Christianity Today, 2005/02/01)
"Zarqawi and other Islamists to the Iraqi People: Elections and Democracy are Heresy" (MEMRI, Special Dispatch Series - No. 856, 2005/02/01)
"Saudi Venom in U.S. Mosques" (Daniel Pipes, New York Sun/danielpipes.org, 2005/02/01)
"What if Bush has been right about Iraq all along?" (Mark Brown, Chicago Sun-Times, 2005/02/01)
"A beacon is lit in Iraq. But not in your names, Robin, Douglas and the BBC" (Michael Gove, The Times, 2005/02/01)
"In Netherlands, Anti-Islamic Polemic Comes With a Price" (Keith B. Richburg, The Washington Post , 2005/02/01)

January 2005
"New kind of awe in the Mideast" (Youssef M. Ibrahim, USA Today, 2005/01/31)
"Fagin, Shylock and Blair" (William Rees-Mogg, The Times, 2005/01/31)
"The people have won" (Mohammed and Omar, Iraq the Model, 2005/01/30)
"Iraqis Brave Bombs to Vote in Their Millions" (Luke Baker, Reuters, 2005/01/30)
"Saudi Publications on Hate Ideology Fill American Mosques" (Freedom House, 2005/01/28)
"The Last Casualty: The Tragic End to a Liberal Iraq" (Lawrence F. Kaplan, The New Republic, 2005/01/27)
"Abundant Life All Around" (Tim Blair, timblair.net, 2005/01/27)
"Militant Imams Under Scrutiny Across Europe" (Don van Natta Jr. and Lowell Bergman, The New York Times, 2005/01/25)
"The Iraqi people will defy the Ba'athists and Islamofascists" (William Shawcross, The Guardian, 2005/01/24)
"High Hopes, Hard Facts" (Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek, from the 2005/01/31 issue)
"Muslims boycott Holocaust remembrance" (David Leppard, The Sunday Times, 2005/01/23)
"Islamophobia myth" (Kenan Malik, Prospect, from the February 2005 issue)
"Inaugural Address by President George W. Bush" (The White House, 2005/01/20)
"Shame on the New York Times" (Jeff Jarvis, Buzz Machine, 2005/01/18)
"The Coming Wars" (Seymour M. Hersh, The New Yorker, 2005/01/17)
"Atrocities in Plain Sight" (Andrew Sullivan, The New York Times, 2005/01/13)
"The War Against World War IV" (Norman Podhoretz, Commentary, from the February 2005 issue)
"Cowards of the left" (Nick Cohen, The Observer, 2005/01/09)
"How to Interrogate Terrorists" (Heather Mac Donald, City Journal, from the Winter 2004 issue)
"Why the Democrats Keep Losing" (Joshua Muravchik, Commentary, from the January 2005 issue)

 

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"When people accept futility and the absurd as normal, the culture is decadent. The term is not a slur; it is a technical label."

Jacques Barzun

Articles of the week

"Losing the Enlightenment" (Victor Davis Hanson, OpinionJournal, 2006/11/29)

"Allah’s England?" (Daniel Johnson, Commentary. November 2006)

"'Sex in the Park': The latest doings of the Danish imams" (Henrik Bering, The Weekly Standard, 2006/11/18)

"Narcissism on Stilts" (Harold Evans, New York Sun, 2006/11/16)

"Terrorists are recruiting in our schools, says MI5 boss" (Philip Johnston, The Daily Telegraph, 2006/11/10)

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From the archives

Oriana Fallaci, R.I.P.

"The Rage, the Pride and the Doubt" (Oriana Fallaci, The Wall Street Journal, 2003/03/13)

"How the West Was Won and How It Will Be Lost" (Oriana Fallaci, The American Enterprise, from the January/February 2003 issue)

"On Jew-hatred in Europe" (Oriana Fallaci, dennisprager.com, 2002/04/13)

"Anger and Pride" (Oriana Fallaci, dennisprager.com, 2001/12/19)

Weekly archive

2006/12/04 - 2006/12/10
2006/11/27 - 2006/12/03
2006/11/20 - 2006/11/26
2006/11/13 - 2006/11/19
2006/11/06 - 2006/11/12
2006/10/30 - 2006/11/05

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Author index

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› Kagan, Robert - Ye'or, Bat



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