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'Wikan has noted that ‘not much was known about the situation of immigrants in Norway’ before 1995 because ‘such knowledge was considered dangerous’. Newspapers ‘were expressly forbidden to mention a person’s ethnic or immigrant background in reports on criminal cases lest a bad image be projected.’ (This in a land that regularly tops the list of nations supposedly having the most press freedom.)'
— May 21, 2018 01:52PM
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Jeremy Maddux
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Nietzsche predicted that the rise of science would cast doubt upon the metaphysics of Christianity and religion, and claimed that the existential crisis this would create would come in the 20th and 21st centuries and result in mass nihilism, which Preston argues can be seen in “the Western demographers gleefully predicting the deaths of their societies.”
— May 21, 2018 03:03PM
Jeremy Maddux
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'In Sweden, where I had spent time previously, parents encouraged their 12 year old daughters to “experiment with their sexuality”. Indeed Sweden was at the forefront of this cultural tidal wave, in which anything “traditional” was regarded as repressive, and where all cultural and sexual norms were rapidly being turned on their heads.'
— May 21, 2018 02:11PM
Jeremy Maddux
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Because most of these immigrants come from war-torn countries in which the governments are either non-existent or without legitimacy, their identities are rarely if ever based upon our concepts of nationality and civic virtue. Most have either a tribal or religious identity that supersedes any form of civic one.
— May 21, 2018 02:00PM
Jeremy Maddux
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'Joyce Carol Oates states that “Men fighting men to determine worth (i.e. masculinity) excludes women as completely as the female experience of childbirth excludes men.”'
Langness, Julian. Fistfights With Muslims In Europe: One Man's Journey Through Modernity (Kindle Locations 683-684). ES Linden Co.. Kindle Edition.
— May 21, 2018 01:37PM
Langness, Julian. Fistfights With Muslims In Europe: One Man's Journey Through Modernity (Kindle Locations 683-684). ES Linden Co.. Kindle Edition.
Jeremy Maddux
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'When Muslim jihadists such as Al Qaeda commit wanton acts of terrorism we often try to ascribe Clausewitzian motives onto their actions. We think and tell ourselves that they are committing these acts the same way a 1980’s Irish Republican Army terrorist would—in order to achieve specific political goals within our Western geopolitical framework'
— May 16, 2018 07:53PM
