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Christmas should be 'downgraded' to help race relations says Labour think tank | the Daily Mail

Source: the Mail online

The report robustly defends multiculturalism - the idea that different communities should not be forced to integrate but should be allowed to maintain their own culture and identities.

DNA Researcher Argues Blacks Not as Clever as Whites

The recent theory proposed by a DNA researcher arguing blacks are dumber than whites reminded me of a scene in 'Out of Africa' where Redford asks Streep what right she has turning Africans into "Little English Men" by teaching English when their way is just as good.

Loyalty Above All Else, Save Honor!

Source: original content

Urges Congresswoman Maloney and her fellow Democrats to honor their oath of office to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

Yale professor Anthony Kronman laments the politicization of the humanities.

Source: City Journal

The second cause of the humanities' decline, Kronman believes, is the culture of political correctness to which the 1960s gave rise, and which today manifests itself in the worship of "diversity" as the supreme pedagogical virtue.

Bad cultural habits plague the West in the War on Terror.

Source: City Journal

Let's start with the ideology of multiculturalism, which has become pervasive, from university and grade-school curricula to Disney cartoons and the mainstream media.

Why did so few people feel the urge to rock against climate change?

Source: New York Sun

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody hears it, is it because Al Gore and a bunch of elderly rockers organized an all-star stadium gala on its behalf? The colossal flopperoo of Live Earth is a heartening reminder that there are some things too ridiculous even for global pop cu …

Why the West is no nearer to a cure for raging fever of Muslim rage

Source: independent.ie

Needless to say, all of this is grist to the mill of those fanatics who would love to inflict a 9/11 on the West every day of the week.

Rediscovering our backbones as the fatwas fly

Source: Australian News Network

DON'T fall for the sweet old lady in hat and gloves number. The Queen has a crafty Machiavellian streak to her. Turning Salman Rushdie into a sir has been a handy health check on whether the West has learned the costs of appeasement.

On the Impact of Christianity

Source: gatesofvienna.blogspot.com

Paul Fregosi says in his book Jihad in the West: "Western colonization of nearby Muslim lands lasted 130 years, from the 1830s to the 1960s. Muslim colonization of nearby European lands lasted 1300 years, from the 600s to the mid-1960s.

EMOTIONAL BUBBLE WRAP: children of jihad vs kids of the west

Source: New York Post

"What is your most lofty aspiration? Death for the sake of Allah!"

Gates of Vienna: What Do We Fight For?

Source: gatesofvienna.blogspot.com

I have tried to contribute to a new vocabulary by coining the word "Caucasophobia" for anti-white racism, and have suggested the term "self-termination" for organized Western self-loathing and the Western policy of unilaterally dismantling our own culture.

The Fourth Great Assault on the Anglosphere by Arnold Kling

Source: tcsdaily.com

It takes a certain amount of chutzpah to write a book that explicitly picks up where Nobel Prize winner Winston Churchill's famous History of the English-Speaking Peoples left off.

Poll: Clash Of Civilizations? No, Just Politics -- As Usual

Source: Guardian Unlimited

Fears of an inevitable "clash of civilisations" between the west and Islam may be exaggerated, according to a global survey that shows a majority of people see positive links between cultures and believe that politics, rather than religion, is the primary cause of international d …

Reshaping America:: Paul Belein Washington Times

Source: -

Those who think that Europe is America's past, think again.Europe matters to America. It matters more than ever before.

The West is in a Trance

Source: RealClearPolitics

I am increasingly convinced that the West is in denial of what is truly happening in the world. This self-delusion is the most dangerous response possible to the intense and rapid change all over the planet.

American Thinker: The Noble Savage is French Toast

Source: American Thinker

Nicholas Wade is a science writer for the New York Times, who used to be as Politically Correct as anyone in that mob on 42nd Street. No longer. Wade has discovered the new anthropology, now informed by a radically improved understanding of the human genome.

The Über Suspect:: Lawrence Auster

Source: amnation.com

Coined by reader Jeff in England, the "Usual Suspects" is VFR's term for those Islam critics who continually warn that Islam threatens our very civilization, but who never utter a single peep about why this disaster is occurring and about what we can do to stop it, namely t …

Mark Steyn: 'New Dark Ages' Coming

Source: NewsMax - Politics

Worldwide demographic shifts are working to the advantage of Islamic extremists, according to author and commentator Mark Steyn. Speaking at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, Steyn, author of "America Alone," said foreign policy "realists" in the U.S.

How I Pulled Teeth In History Class

Due to a fit of historical sadomasochism, I signed up for both Western Civilization and World Civilizations this semester. I'm being bombarded by both instructors about the rise of the nation-states in Europe.