What’s that? A doctor? Why, how can that be? Everyone knows that poverty causes terrorism, right? In reality, the idea that poverty causes terrorism, and that showering Muslim countries with money will end it, has been shown to be false again and again — although it is still a core assumption of U.S. foreign policy. […]
UK: A Chinese international student says she was treated poorly when she wore a medical mask in public. She decided to wear a niqab over her mask & now says she has been treated with great respect ever since by the British: https://t.co/tbBWFBoucgpic.twitter.com/cCUMpBAAEL — Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) March 15, 2020 The general public in […]
“Despite reports that the perpetrators shouted Islamist slogans, the police are not currently treating the incident as a terrorist attack.” This is reasonable. Who ever heard of Muslims mounting terror attacks at airports, anyway? Why, the very idea is “Islamophobic.” “Two arrested after botched ‘Islamist attack’ sees car driven into Barcelona airport (PHOTOS),” RT, March […]
In another case of conflict between Islam and modern science, “Indonesia halted a mass congregation of nearly 9,000 Muslim pilgrims and began quarantining them and checking their health Thursday to prevent the further spread of the coronavirus amid a spike in cases,” but the cancellation has caused conflict and distress among the devoted. Sentot Abu […]
It has now been some time since the coronavirus has been dubbed a pandemic, an imminent threat to human society. All countries and their citizens are coping with the virus as best they can, and trying to defeat it at any cost. To minimise the peril, most countries have imposed a lockdown or restricted the […]
Yesterday I popped into hospital to have a recovering wound on my leg checked. The pedestrian entrance had been blocked off, with a temporary field hospital set up right on the road. The doctors at the entrance wanted to know whether I had any of the COVID-19 symptoms. I did not, but asked them to […]
Iran is caught between science, the global realities of the coronavirus outbreak, and its backward mullahs, who are determined to maintain the status quo: Radical Shiite clerics in Iran have escalated their pressure on Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to keep the nation’s largest holy shrines open – where kissing and touching the shrines is common – […]
After China and Italy, Iran is the country hardest hit by the coronavirus. It has reported, as of mid-March, over 12,600 cases and 620 deaths; many in Iran believe the official figures grossly understate the real numbers, and they note that the government has built gigantic pits large enough to bury many thousands. Unsurprisingly, the […]
The folly of Merkel’s policies are being revealed in all sorts of new ways. “Police union leader blasts German gov’t for no ban on flights from Iran,” by Benjamin Weinthal, Jerusalem Post, March 17, 2020: BERLIN – Jörg Radek, deputy chairman of the German police union, on Monday sharply rebuked Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government for […]
“The US has announced a new round of sanctions against Iran” despite pressure from Russia, China and Pakistan to lift sanctions during the coronavirus outbreak. They argue that “ the country [Iran] is wrestling with lack of medical equipment and medicine it needs to import to battle the deadly disease,” as if Iran actually prioritized […]
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