Hirsi Ali discusses democracy and Islam - ABC radio

5 August , 2008

A brief interview with Mark Colvin on ABC radio.

Lawrence Auster on motives of Canadian beheader

August 06, 2008

Oh, hell, why even bother asking these questions? Why pretend that there are any standards of self-preservation to appeal to any more? The Western countries WANT to be destroyed. It's as simple as that.

There is doubt about Vince Weiguang Li's motivation for slaughtering Tim McLean. There is no doubt at all about the motivation of the West in allowing Li--and millions of other unassimilable, often hostile, and often physically or mentally ill non-Westerners--to immigrate into the West.

No doubt at all.

Postmodern path to student failure

August 04, 2008

POSTMODERNISM is hobbling Australia's best and brightest university students by locking them into narrow, prescriptive and politically correct ways of thinking and using language.

The domination of postmodern theory, especially in humanities courses, is setting up a generation of students for educational failure, University of NSW professor Gavin Kitching argues in a book to be published this week. Based on an analysis of all honours dissertations written by politics students at the university over 23 years, Professor Kitching concludes that the students had abused their intelligence in writing their theses.

Let's hope some left-wingers like Kitching will likewise take their concerns over literacy to the supremacist teachings of the Koran.

Hirsi Ali downunder talking about new book

August 02, 2008

On her short visit to Australia, she talks about the ideas she will present in her next book. Shortcut to the Enlightenment, due out in 2010, will explore the key differences between Islam and the West through imagined conversations in the New York Public Library between the prophet Mohammed and three of her favourite philosophers, John Stuart Mill, Karl Popper and Friedrich Hayek...

"I followed intently the debate in books, on television, in newspapers. And it became clear to me that there were three fundamental incompatibilities between Islam and the West, and three philosophers, whose work I had read and admired, each of whom wrote about one of these issues." ...

"Ideas are very powerful. Ideas inspire people to do things. I think it's good to have the ideas of Western liberal society and Islam put starkly side by side so the reader can see why they are incompatible."