Islam In India: William Dalrymple’s jihad negationism – Koenraad Elst Posted on January 5, 2013 by IS Taj Mahal In several articles and speeches since at least 2004 (“Trapped in the ruins” in The Guardian, 20 March 2004), and especially in the commotion provoked by Girish Karnad’s speech in Mumbai (autumn 2012), William Dalrymple has condemned Nobel prize winner V.S. Naipaul for writing that the Vijayanagar empire was a Hindu bastion besieged by Muslim states. The famous writer … Read entire article »

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North Vietnam, 1972: The Christmas bombing of Hanoi North Vietnamese rescue workers The biggest ever bombing campaign by US B-52 bombers took place over Christmas 40 years ago, when the US dropped 20,000 tonnes of explosives on North Vietnam. More than 1,000 Vietnamese died, but the assault may have helped bring about the peace deal signed a month later. Operation Linebacker II was President Richard Nixon’s attempt to hasten the end of the Vietnam War, as the growing … Read entire article »

AV: So did the USA against Sadam Hussain for his plan to sell oil against the Euro and Gaddafi’s plan to sell oil only against gold.this interview is quite revealing Al Qaeda being secretely brought into countries before being attacked under the pretext to liberate them from it. The horrible voice of the interviewer is made up by the beauty and intelligence of the interviewee, a Syrian girl, muslima indeed, but of a … Read entire article »

Culture Clash The Rodents of Amsterdam by The Editors of Taki’s Magazine December 09, 2012 As Pastor Martin Niemöller famously wrote: First they came for the loud, obnoxious, drunken neighbors who defecated on my front lawn, tossed their beer bottles through my window, harassed my children, raped my sister, shot my dog, set my car on fire, and spit in my face, but I did not speak out, because I was not one of them. Last year … Read entire article »