Taki's Daily Blog
Some columns offer to write themselves. It’s hard to imagine a juicier piece of news than a call by the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury for the British legal system to incorporate Sharia—the Islamic legal code. Let’s start off with what’s startling: According to The Evening Standard, Archbishop Rowan Williams “said it could help build a better and more cohesive society if … [Read More]
Benazir Bhutto may have been ruthless, conniving, and a “puppet of Pakistan’s military and security services,” as Leon Hadar argues in the January 2008 issue of Chronicles, but make no mistake: Her assassination today will do nothing to bring peace and stability to Pakistan. The suicide attack that killed her along with at least 20 others will be widely seen, on … [Read More]
What’s the most popular boys’ name in Britain? If you guessed “Jack,” you’d be right. That’s a pretty common British name--in fact, it’s been the most popular boys’ name for 13 years now. What about the second most popular? Well, that depends. If we treat each variant spelling of a name as a separate name, then the second most popular boys’ … [Read More]
On Wednesday, November 28, Derrick Shareef pled guilty in U.S. District Court in Chicago on federal charges of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. I’ve discussed the Shareef case before on this website, most notably here, here, and here. In the past, I’ve suggested the Shareef case was only the tip of the iceberg, and that those who thought … [Read More]
Continuing our jaunt through Mr. LaTulippe’s article from yesterday, we come to these lines: “When analyzing the likely course of these civilizational struggles – and plotting a strategy for America to deal with them – one must also recognize another important fact: The ultimate outcome of Islam’s civilizational wars has already been determined. Radical Islam is not a viable paradigm upon … [Read More]
Steven LaTulippe’s article today, ”Let’s Sit Out World War IV,” has much to recommend it, and I doubt that anyone associated with Taki’s Top Drawer is likely to disagree with LaTulippe’s call for the United States to take advantage of the fact that we are “not forced by geography into a conflict with Dar-al Islam.” Yes, withdrawing from the Middle East … [Read More]
The Empire State Building was once the world’s tallest, until the World Trade Center came along. While other buildings elsewhere eventually topped it, the Empire State Building remained the second-tallest building in New York City--until September 11, 2001, when the will of Allah made it the city’s tallest once again. Which makes the irony of this Breitbart report almost unbearable: New … [Read More]
“All things have their season, and in their times all things pass under heaven.A time to be born and a time to die. A time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted.A time to kill, and a time to heal. A time to destroy, and a time to build.A time to weep, and a time to … [Read More]
Well, no, not really. Babar Ahmad is a British Muslim who ran jihadist websites that raised money for radical Muslims fighting in Chechnya and Afghanistan. He’s currently being held in England, awaiting extradition to the United States. His case is of interest to me, because it was Ahmad to whom former U.S. Navy signalman Hassan Abujihaad passed classified information on the … [Read More]
Last week, I reported that a number of newspapers had decided not to run a two-part storyline appearing in Berkeley Breathed’s comic-strip Opus (the reincarnation of his once wildly popular Bloom County). In the comic, the main female character, Lola Granola (a name redolent with meaning), had decided to convert to radical Islam and had begun to wear a burqa. According … [Read More]