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...biggest enemy is terrorism," says Charles Beem, a historian at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. "Theirs was the Reformation. You can't overestimate how traumatic the changes in the church would have been." You might get close if you imagined that Monica Lewinsky had been a radical Islamist and Bill Clinton married her and made everyone convert...
...Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk.Defying genre constraints, “Snow” is, on one hand, a depiction of the contemporary political realities of a country that geographically straddles the border between the East and West—a polity divided between a secularized, cosmopolitan bourgeois and a political Islamist provincial underclass. But on the other hand, it’s a cerebral reflection on love, happiness, faith, and the dazzling power of language to construct and re-construct the reality in which we live.“Snow” opens with the illusion of omniscient narration...
...cosmopolitan city and the center of Iraq's oil industry, the city - under British control - has become a violent maelstrom of warring Islamic elements. While the British initially could patrol the city without helmets, now they travel in heavily armored vehicles. "Basra is increasingly a kleptocracy used by Islamist militias to fill their war chests," the report says...
Indeed, the Churchillian Fallacy seems very much at the heart of the conservative misreading of the Islamist challenge. Speaker after speaker compared the jihadis to Nazis and communists, as the President did two or three speech-cycles ago. There was a lot of melodramatic spew about this being the beginning stage of World War III or IV. John O'Sullivan, the National Review's editor-at-large, predicted major geostrategic shifts ahead, with the Europeans slipping over to the dark side at the behest of their Islamic immigrant populations. "Do you think," one summit-goer asked me, in an eruption...
Indeed, the Churchillian Fallacy seems very much at the heart of the conservative misreading of the Islamist challenge. Speaker after speaker compared the jihadis to Nazis and communists, as the President did two or three speech-cycles ago. There was a lot of melodramatic spew about this being the beginning stage of World War III or IV. John O'Sullivan, the National Review's editor-at-large, predicted major geostrategic shifts ahead, with the Europeans slipping over to the dark side at the behest of their Islamic immigrant populations. "Do you think," one summit-goer asked me, in an eruption...