Never let a crisis go to waste

Sometimes I'm glad this blog doesn't (yet) get tens and hundreds of thousands of hits per day, and that I don't have the fame that goes with that traffic volume. One of the unfortunate pieces of fallout from Anders Behring Breivik's murderous spree in Norway ten days ago has been been a 'take no prisoners' rush on the Left to use the murders to silence critics of the growing Islamization of

A boost for the Islamists

The Norwegian terror attacks have turned into an excuse to beat up on conservative, anti-Islamist bloggers. In a disgraceful piece written this morning, the New York Times all but blames Robert Spencer, Baron Bodissey and Pam Geller for the Oslo attacks. In the document he posted online, Anders Behring Breivik, who is accused of bombing government buildings and killing scores of young people at a

The failures of multiculturalism

In an editorial in Monday's paper, the Jerusalem Post urges that Friday's tragedy in Norway not be allowed to shut off criticism of the failures of multiculturalism. Undoubtedly, there will be those – particularly on the Left – who will extrapolate out from Breivik’s horrific act that the real danger facing contemporary Europe is rightwing extremism and that criticism of multiculturalism is