The Ideological Path to Submission: How to handle the Islam problem.

Howard Rotberg interviewed in FrontPage Magazine by  Mark Tapson on Rotberg’s new book The Ideological Path to Submission. In the interview, Rotberg talks about the concept of  intolerism – “a leniency, given to those who themselves are intolerant and illiberal and who, if they obtain power, would want to end all tolerance.” This interview is a brilliant short summary of the problems and consequences of the current liberal post-nationalism that naively  embraces tolerism.  The consequences…

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Understanding what freedom really means

Given the latest terror attacks in Britain, and the attacks in Afghanistan, Egypt, and Iraq, and seeing how fairly common events  these events have become, it is a wonder to me that anyone can argue against  the  fact that these attacks were carried out by religious zealots, or give the argument that the risk associated with being blown up in public by these people is somehow acceptable because it is less than the risk of…

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