In the days and weeks ahead, the Spanish police and intelligence officials will be piecing this together. They will be trying to work out who the terrorists knew, who they were in contact with and whether there are still more people waiting to do the same thing. Politicians and others will remark not just on […]
Les mer»Mens revolutioner i det 20. århundrede blev antændt af idelogiske drømme om en strålende fremtid for masserne, er det 21. århundredes revolution drevet af Google Maps og lokkende billeder af livet på den anden side af grænsen. For et voksende antal mennesker, familier og klaner hinsides Middelhavet indebærer forandring at udskifte sit land, ikke sin […]
Les mer»We cannot fix failed states by inviting millions of their people to move in with us. All that ensures is more failed states, more failure, and eventually, one by one, the nations of the west will join them. And then you’ll really be yearning to breathe free and there will be nowhere to do it. […]
Les mer»Anthony Glees, head of security and intelligence studies at the University of Buckingham, said: «To have 23,000 potential killers in our midst is horrifying. We should double the size of MI5, as we did in World War Two, and expand the number of intelligence-led police by thousands. We can’t go on as if this wasn’t […]
Les mer»I think Europe has to decide if it wants to live and thrive or if it wants to shrivel and disappear. Benjamin Netanyahu
Les mer»“Many in the land of Goethe and Schiller never got over the fact that it was a gum-chewing GI who brought us democracy,” writes Jan Fleischhauer of Der Spiegel, referring to the American soldiers of World War II.
Les mer»I Midtøsten knuser islamistene kors og andre kristne symboler med slegge, i Norge fjernes de ad lovgivningens vei. De tusseladdene av noen lovgivere klarer ikke engang å verne om symbolet i nasjonalflagget, og personifiserer aldeles utmerket det mørket som legger seg over Europa. Christian Skaug om den nye gravferdsloven som forbyr kors på porten til […]
Les mer»Recently, after dragging its feet for years, the Central Council of Muslims in Germany had agreed to call a march against Islamist terror. The Muslim organization boasted 10,000 registered participants for the «Not with us — Muslims and friends against violence and terror» rally, scheduled for June 17 in Cologne. On the much awaited day, […]
Les mer»If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being […]
Les mer»The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in. Within 30 seconds any pretence was always unnecessary. A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge […]
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