I think our attitude toward America should change … we have a chance, in America, to be the moral leadership of America. The problem is when? It will happen, it will happen [Allah willing], I have no doubt in my mind, Muslims sooner or later will be the moral leadership of America. It depends on me and you, either we do it now or we do it after a hundred years, but this country will become a Muslim country. And I [think] if we are outside this country we can say ‘Oh, Allah destroy America,’ but once we are here, our mission in this country is to change it.
– Abdul Rahman al-Amoudi, a prominent American Muslim leader
|
|||||
|
September 30th, 2003 | 49 comments - (Comments are closed)
 Whenever a politician starts talking about “the children”, keep one eye on your wallet and the other on your liberty. September 29th, 2003 | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)
The humbling of the WTO not only worsens economic prospects for the developing countries (as well as for the rest of the world) but also shifts the balance of global political power from poor to rich – perhaps decisively, and who knows for how many years. That is what the developing countries’ champions are so busy celebrating. September 23rd, 2003 | 12 comments - (Comments are closed)
— Former UN weapons inspector Richard Butler, via Glenn, to whom Samizdata remains loyal. September 20th, 2003 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
— Salam Pax, summarising how quite a lot of us actually feel, writing in the Guardian. Actually, go read the whole thing. The descriptions of how the Ba’athists attempted to censor the internet and how people got around it that follow are quite interesting. September 9th, 2003 | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)
This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration! Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future. September 9th, 2003 | 26 comments - (Comments are closed)
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. September 8th, 2003 | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)
I don’t think philosophically there’s a meeting of minds between Ayn Rand and Our Glorious Leader, Tony Blair:
You might think that being your brother’s keeper is fine. But when Tony Blair says that he is his brother’s keeper, what he actually means is that he wants to force everyone else to be this. The statement isn’t about him at all. If he really subscribed to the moral code he advocates, surely he would donate most of his income to the poor. Then again, when you hear middle-class socialists demanding higher taxes, and you ask them how much extra they personally should pay, they often reply back that only “the rich” – people richer than they are – should pay more. September 3rd, 2003 | 17 comments - (Comments are closed)
Judging cultures is not the same as judging races. One’s race is unchosen; no-one can be condemned for membership of a racial group. However, culture is chosen, so a person can be condemned for their acceptance of an immoral culture. The equivocation of culture with race is one of the commonest forms of racism today: it is based on the racist view that one’s race determines one’s ideas and outlook. August 28th, 2003 | 20 comments - (Comments are closed)
— Mark Steyn’s advice to people who would send him e-mail. August 26th, 2003 | Comments are closed
Thinking has been given a bad press. Feeling did not devise a law of gravity: thinking did. August 25th, 2003 | 14 comments - (Comments are closed)
This constant intervention by government in tasks that belong to the (with thanks to David Goldstone) August 16th, 2003 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
|
   |
||||
All content on this website (including text, photographs, audio files, and any other original works), unless otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons License. |
|||||