Hollande eliminated a section of the Louvre Museum dedicated to the Eastern Christians, who in the last two years have been decimated by the Islamic State. The Louvre has a section dedicated to Islamic art, but nothing on Eastern Christianity.
If Emmanuel Macron wins, France as we have known it can be considered pretty much over. Macron is, for example, against taking away French nationality from jihadists.
History suggests that when the law makes it illegal to tell the truth, a reliable portion of people can be called upon to lie. So it has been in the past. And so it will be with Canada. So it would be anywhere once the law became an opponent of truth rather than the protector of it.
Jyllands-Posten and its editor Flemming Rose rose to the occasion and proved that a small nation can muster the courage to stand up to bullying islamists and murderous jihadists. Later on Jyllands-Posten declined to publish Charlie Hebdo-caricatures and we forgave them. They had paid the price. But in a new book, the very same Flemming […]
Europe is more than just the EU; Europe is heritage transmitted, shared and protected. All politicians will be judged in the light of this responsibility: Culture and values will take centre stage. To what extent is Europe responsible for the calamity that is Syria? Suddenly one talks of Syria as Europe’s backyard. Nonsense. Syria is […]
Springtime in Paris in the aftermath of terrorism: Author and journalist Helle Merete Brix reflects on terror in the aftermath of Charlie Hebdo and Copenhagen. Many people, people with names and faces, pay the price, on soul and body and most are invisible to society. But they are important witnesses to what is going on. Right now and it is not abating.
BBCs Kim Ghattas kommenterer at effekten av atomavtalen er økt regional spenning, uavhengig av om den har den tilsiktede virkning. Rivaliseringen mellom Teheran og Riyadh går dypt og ble aktivert fra det øyeblikk Khomeini ville grunnlegge sin egen gudsstat. Det var en direkte utfordring av Riyadh. After the United States, Saudi Arabia is probably the […]
The short essay below – “A train of thought” – was written between 17th and 20th of June 2014. The thoughts expressed «dawned on me» the week prior – over 3-4 days total – and ended with me sending an email to a friend asking what he thought about the idea – Sunday 15th of […]
What is it about Iran’s actions that have changed enough to persuade the U.S. government that the Iranian regime might be a regime in transition?
Internally there has been no let-up in the regime’s campaign of oppression against their own Iranian people: hanging people for a range of «crimes,» from being gay to being a poet found guilty of «blasphemy».
Iran has not released the four American hostages it continues to hold. This, in spite of last-minute requests from Iran to lift a ban on conventional weapons, acceded to by the members of the P5+1, wasting yet another abandoned opportunity actually to get something in return for their total surrender.
Apostasy: Twenty five year-old Imad Iddine Habib founded an organisation for ex-Muslims in Morocco. Now he has ”lost everything”.
