-
Sign Up
-
Recent Posts
- Just do it – keep your word August 22, 2025
- Vale Terence Stamp August 18, 2025
- Moral leadership trio Trump, Meloni, Milei August 17, 2025
- The evil genius of hostage taking August 13, 2025
- Putin’s word is worthless August 11, 2025
Recent Comments
- andrew on Just do it – keep your word
- Garry Stannus on Just do it – keep your word
- Garry Stannus on Dan Andrews car & cycle crash: damning expert report
- Garry Stannus on Dan Andrews car & cycle crash: damning expert report
- Garry Stannus on Dan Andrews car & cycle crash: damning expert report
Category Archives: Democracy And Terrorism
Silence is complicity in Jihad
By Andrew L. Urban. I was about to write ‘moderate Muslims’ but then I paused to think why I needed to put the word ‘moderate’ in my sentence? Of course, I mean to refer to Muslims who do not plan … Continue reading
Posted in Democracy And Terrorism
Leave a comment
Winston Churchill’s 1899 take on Islam
“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries, … Continue reading
Posted in Democracy And Terrorism
Leave a comment
Wine, women and … yeast to deradicalise young Muslim men naturally
The absence of women and wine in the daily life of many Muslim societies contributes enormously to violent male behaviour, says one philosopher, while an acclaimed lateral thinker says young men need to have yeast in their diet to curb … Continue reading
Posted in Democracy And Terrorism
Leave a comment
Recruit former Jihadists to combat radicalisation
By Andrew L. Urban. Letter to The Editor, Sydney Morning Herald, 15/3/2015 – unpublished. It is encouraging to hear of plans to use former Jihadists to counter radicalisation (SMH 14/3/2015, Ex-jihadists could be used to counter extremist message); it shows someone … Continue reading
Posted in Democracy And Terrorism
1 Comment
Jihad & Judeochristianity – different moral universes
Jihad is propelled not merely by religion but its own and different moral universe, writes Andrew L. Urban. “The struggle against Islamic extremism has been crippled by a failure of historical awareness and cultural understanding. From the very beginning, we … Continue reading
Posted in Democracy And Terrorism
Leave a comment
Anger itself fires furies of ISlam
It’s not a mistake: I fully intend to write it as ISlam, highlighting the inbuilt anger in the very title of the religion that is setting the world on fire. By Andrew L. Urban. I found an article about Andy … Continue reading
Posted in Democracy And Terrorism
Leave a comment
Fighting terrorism – the missing link
Invite senior Muslims to the secular world leaders’ microphone, says Andrew L. Urban. When President Barack Obama of the US and Prime Minister David Cameron of the UK stood shoulder to shoulder at the White House to announce a joint … Continue reading
Posted in Democracy And Terrorism
Leave a comment
Islam has given birth to monsters – Muslim philosopher
In an open letter* to the Muslim world, nothing short of a shattering indictment, French Muslim philosopher Abdennour Bidar writes that Islam has given birth to monsters and needs reform – from within. Excerpts edited by Andrew L. Urban. “Where … Continue reading
Posted in Democracy And Terrorism
Leave a comment
Sony hacking & The Interview – ridicule not fear in reply
By Andrew L. Urban Faux-horror comedy film studio Troma was the first to respond – correctly – with ridicule to the ghastly attempt at terrorist blackmail by North Korea, after Sony’s new comedy, The Interview, was refused bookings at all … Continue reading
Posted in Democracy And Terrorism
Leave a comment
Frank Furedi: jihadists amongst us
By Frank Furedi * It is not just the threat of particular horrific acts of terror on the streets of Sydney that Australia has woken up to this week (September 15 – 19, 2014) It is the disturbing realisation a … Continue reading
Posted in Democracy And Terrorism
Leave a comment