"the police, hospitals and public transport staff have already said they won't play ball" - Good.

The President of the Conference of European Rabbis writes.

Not a good feeling at all.

The *real* meaning, that is.

Read it.

Yep.

The Muslims of Wyoming. A brilliant piece.

Good on @RobinLustig.

"It neither picks my pocket not breaks my leg."

Heartfelt.

Good.

The legacy of the Dönmeh.

A Muslim and former Republican writes a long, heartfelt piece.

Old news but I missed this good piece at the time.

"Islamic militants are normal people who are often incompetent, not particularly well informed, not particularly well prepared and certainly not the classic vision of the Islamic terrorist"

Trouble at the Henry Jackson Society.

"The majority of men are in no persuasion bigots; they are not willing to sacrifice on every vain imagination that superstition or enthusiasm holds forth, or that even zeal and piety recommend, the certain possession of their temporal happiness ... "If anything can tend to revive and keep [fanaticism] up, it is to keep alive the passions…

"Cameron clearly does not understand that identity politics in the UK are often divisive and politically unrewarding. Such speeches may be grounded in genuine concern about social cohesion and the potential of violent extremism. But they often merely feed bigotry for those who seek to conflate extremist Islam and Islam as a religion...His lin…

The difference between Cameron and Baroness Warsi on the Muslim question is striking.  She knows what she is talking about. He doesn’t.

Eurabia's fundamentally an ideology of revenge ... as well as an ideology of envy. Muslims, imagined by Eurabianists as beings somehow completely resistant to the influences of modernization and post-modernization etc., are imagined as perfect conservatives, retaining the superfecundity of old and maintaining the traditional family. Why them?…

Lucid essay on the rationale behind this absurd legislation - "Europe’s systemic fears involve nothing less than the extent of her territorial and cultural boundaries. To put it bluntly, an aged Europe feels under threat from a world she once dominated, but which she never properly understood. It is this post-colonial world that is coming bac…

Except it wasn't. There was no planned Islamist assassination attempt against the Pope.

One of the best comments on the recent nastiness.

Excellent commentary - transferable to many situations.

Nate Silver talks sense

Nate Silver talks even more sense