Mer 22 Set – Dimmu Borgir, Enslaved, Sahg

I was on holiday in Paris, I decided to see Dimmu Borgir in action, just before the release of the new album. Unfortunately the sound at Le Bataclan was awful. It has been impossible to distinguish Galder's solos and keyboard parts, everything overwhelmed by sound distorsion and an inadequate acoustic.

by Bill Warner

22 Mar, 2009

Soon after 9/11 we began to hear about Islam, the peaceful religion. The whole concept seems so ludicrous, but it filled the media. Can you imagine someone calling Buddhism, the peaceful religion? It is like saying circles, the round figure. Yes, but isn't it what you would expect?

When scholars use the term, it is usually in quotes, "peaceful Islam", to express the irony of the name. However, in working with the manuscript of my work-in-progress, Waging Ideological War, I was realized that there actually was a peaceful Islam without the quotes.

The Sira…

March 14, 2009 - by Raymond Ibrahim

Raymond Ibrahim is the associate director of the Middle East Forum and the author of The Al Qaeda Reader, translations of religious texts and propaganda.

Why do some Muslims become suicide bombers or “martyrs”? In fact, these two near antithetic words — on the one hand, broken, desperate suicides, on the other, heroic martyrs — intrinsically demonstrate the radically different epistemologies the average Westerner and Muslim will articulate their answer through. In other words, that Westerners consider them suicides while Muslims consider them martyrs in and of itself speaks volumes on motivation.

To…

by Dr. Sami Alrabaa*

12 Oct, 2008

Islamists and their backers have a shallow and uncivilized “ideology” which cannot stand up to any rational thinking. It does not offer any alternative to any social, political, or economic order which mankind has thus far has known. It exclusively incites to hatred, violence, and discrimination against women and followers of other faiths. It is even an over statement to say it is bankrupt. Bankruptcy usually applies to someone who has possessed something and then lost it. Islamism, including numerous passages in Shari’a and the Koran, is a destructive mindset. It is a…

by Amil Imani *

1. Religious belief is emotional at its core. And emotions are not governed by logic or reason. Becoming religious is similar to imprinting, most dramatically seen in ducklings. During a critical period of time after hatching the ducklings become imprinted on any moving object—be it the mother duck, a mechanical duck, or a moving human. It doesn’t matter. The ducklings simply follow the initially moving object.

2. Religion, for most part, is infused into the mind of children from the moment of birth. Early childhood is the time that children are most imprintable. The strength and…

Tue 22 Jul – European vacation Metallica

Years passed since my first Metallica live concert in Torino.

When I think about Metallica my mind aims to: Kill'em All, Ride The Lightning, Master Of Puppets and ..And Justice for All. I personally don't like the last albums.

I decided to go to see them live because I know they are trying to return to the origin of their legend and sound, hoping they succeeded.

Their performance was absolutely great from both points of views: technical and energy.

I don't want to make a precise review, I just want to express my…

Tue 13 Nov – Behemoth, Job for a Cowboy, Gojira, Beneath the Massacre

This morning after the business meetings I was walking in Saint Laurent Blvd and I noted "Club Soda" was announcing Behemoth's concert for the evening.
I checked my agenda and..perfect free..I bought 1 ticket.

Now I'm just returned to my hotel, in Montreal downtown, after the show.
The show started with Beneath The Massacre, then Gojira, Job For A Cowboy and finally Behemoth. Gojira impressed me a lot, the other bands not so much except Behemoth, of course.
I missed them in Florence this summer but I…

Counterjihad Brussels 2007
Country Report: Belgium

The situation in Belgium does not differ significantly from the situation in other Western European countries, except for the fact that it might be worse here than elsewhere because Belgium is an artificial state without a national identity to defend.

Belgium, like the rest of Europe, is confronted with welfare immigration. Most immigrants in Belgium are Muslims from Morocco. There is also a significant number of Turkish immigrants.

The overwhelming majority of the Muslim immigrants did not come to Belgium as so-called “guest workers” in the 1960s and 70s. They arrived since the 1980s…

Dargai, 23 Oct. (AKI/DAWN) - The attendance girls' schools in a town in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province dropped drastically on Monday after a deadline set by local militants ended on Sunday. They had made it ‘mandatory’ for girls to wear the burqa or full veil to school.

The Pakistani daily Dawn contacted some of the students who said they belonged to poor families and did not have enough money to buy or sew burqas, which cost between 600 and 800 rupees (about 9-13 US dollars) a piece. They said that under the circumstances, the only option they had was…

Brussels Declaration

We, the people of Europe, hereby affirm our common values. They are based not on a single culture or tradition but are founded in all of the cultures that make up modern Europe.

* We affirm the worth, dignity and autonomy of every individual, and the right of everyone to the greatest possible freedom compatible with the rights of others. We support democracy and human rights and aim at the fullest possible development of every human being.
* We recognise our duty of care to all of humanity including future generations, and our dependence on and responsibility for…