How Did Islam Become Toxic in the West?
The kernel of an explanation lies in the fact that the majority think that Islam is incompatible with Western democracy and the Western way of life.
Rumy Hasan
· 10 min read
Immigration
A collection of 71 posts
A Conservative Defence of Refugee Rights
We should be promoting a response that saves lives, defends human freedom, acknowledges our responsibilities, and honours our liberal history.
Charlie Peters
· 6 min read
No, the Syrian Civil War Is Not like Jews Fleeing Nazi Persecution
If one genuinely cares about the civilians who are suffering, they would want to stop the war at any cost, rather than fan the flames further.
Sumantra Maitra
· 6 min read
Trump and the Revenge of the Borderlands
Trump especially did quite well in a region which had not voted Republican on a federal basis in ages.
Mathieu Vaillancourt
· 5 min read
You Can't Build Walls Around a Culture
It’s progress. It’s the constantly expanding intellectual and social capacity that has led human civilization to every single one of its most mind-blowing achievements.
Sam White
· 4 min read
Fleeing Theocracy: An Asylum Seeker's Defence of the West
With the ongoing migrant crisis emanating from the Muslim world and as an asylum seeker himself.
AR Devine
· 7 min read
Merkel's Meaningless Mea Culpa
Angela Merkel is apologizing. Not for her policies, but for a whole lot of other things.
Sumantra Maitra
· 6 min read
Why Trump Is Right About Immigration
The Center for Immigration Studies notes that “more than three million new legal and illegal immigrants settled in the United States in 2014 and 2015 — a 39 percent increase over the prior two years.
Deion Kathawa
· 9 min read
Tutors and Examiners of the Mind: German Media and the Migrant Crisis
In the wake of the Cologne crisis (as we can now rightly call it — again, without exaggeration) many worrying trends in German society came to light.
Phillip Mark McGough
· 6 min read
After Cologne, Feminism Is Dead
After Cologne, feminism is dead. Europe must now focus on the more important issue of women’s rights.
Phillip Mark McGough
· 7 min read
Paris Aftermath: Conflating Daesh with Refugees Won't Stop Terror
As political positions have crystallised in the week following the attacks, there is increasing conflation of these three elements within the debate.
Zack Pyzer
· 6 min read