Leon J. Podles :: DIALOGUE

When cultures collide, sometimes they borrow good ideas from each other, and sometimes bad ideas.

The encounter of Islam and the Christian West has given us algebra, but we have also taken over some of the unlovelier products of Islam.
Islam spread the idea of jihad as meaning not only an interior struggle against evil [...]

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You can’t make these things up:
 
A teacher in the secondary school Institute Menénez Tola has been denounced by the family of a Moslem student for talking about ham in class.  

Un profesor de secundaria del Instituto Menénez Tolosa…ha sido denunciado por la familia de un alumno musulmán por hablar de jamón en clase. En concreto, el [...]

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As Christopher Caldwell details in his Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West, the elites in Europe have long tried to convince the voters that there is no danger from Moslem immigration. The voters are not convinced. 
The Swiss run their country by referendum, to the horror of the elites, and the [...]

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German police tore down an Israeli flag because it offended Moslem protestors. When will Germans start arresting Jews and ah, “disposing” of them so that Moslems won’t tear Germany apart? Der Spiegel reports: 

Police in the western German city of Duisburg have admitted they removed flags a student had hung in his apartment in support of [...]

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No new churches are being built in Europe, and many are being secularized, as Deutsche Welle points out. The Elias Church, in Berlin

 
is now a children’s museum.
 
But Moslems go to mosque, and they are claiming their place in the cityscape. Here is the new mosque for Cologne: The exterior is by a German architect and [...]

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