by Henry Oliner | Oct 4, 2015 | Anti Semitism, Islam, Jewish, Religion
from The Wall Street Journal,How to Defeat Religious Violence by Jonathan Sacks: What the secularists forgot is that Homo sapiens is the meaning-seeking animal. If there is one thing the great institutions of the modern world do not do, it is to provide meaning....
by Henry Oliner | Dec 23, 2014 | Islam, Israel, Jewish, Religion
from There Is a ‘Worst Sin’: Evil in God’s Name by Dennis Prager in The National Review When an irreligious person commits evil, it doesn’t bring God and religion into disrepute. But when a religious person commits evil in God’s name he destroys the greatest hope for...
by Henry Oliner | Sep 15, 2014 | Islam
from National Review, Theodore Dalrymple writes Islam’s Nightclub Brawl to explain why such violent jihadists (interesting that spell check for jihadists comes up ‘sadists’) come from Britain. Excerpts: Are there more British jihadis, for example, because...
by Henry Oliner | Aug 29, 2013 | Foreign policy, Islam, Israel
from The Israeli Spring by Victor Davis Hanson in The National Review excerpts: In terms of realpolitik, anti-Israeli authoritarians are fighting to the death against anti-Israeli insurgents and terrorists. Each is doing more damage to the other than Israel ever could...
by Henry Oliner | Jan 29, 2013 | Islam, Israel
Victor Davis Hanson writes The Age of Tokenism in The National Review, 1/29/13 Excerpt: No one knows how to break the cycle of Middle East violence, much less how to address the tribalism, statism, lack of transparency and freedom, gender apartheid, religious...
by Henry Oliner | Sep 6, 2010 | Islam, Israel, Terrorism
Dan Gordis writes in The Jerusalem Post a different insight into the ground zero mosque. In The Ground Zero mosque – what US could learn from Israel Gordis writes that the issue of religious tolerance must not blind us to acknowledging that we clearly have an...
