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  The rise of totalitarianism in democratic states has worried Europe’s intellectuals for some time. The original fervent faith in the ability of modernity to overcome evil was significantly setback and reduced in the aftermath of the Second World War. Left thinkers such as Herbert Marcuse, Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer and Michel Foucault all attempted to use critical theory …

  For quite some time Muslims and non-Western immigration into Europe has been a hot topic of discussion. Let us hope Ayaan Hirsi Ali is wrong in predicting heavy violence and civil war in Europe unless we are able to cope with the growing number of immigrant groups and its cultural implications. But why have Europeans generally been so preoccupied …

  Louis Farrakhan prediction on Libya: It is remarkable in retrospect to review the American islamic preacher, Louis Farrakhan speech to president Obama before the Libya war, 2011. He quite clearly predicted the mess both Libya and Europe is now in. The NATO Libya war in 2011 sent the country spiraling into chaos and civil war, now characterized by militia …

Bashar al-Assad spoke to Expressen about the threat from “Scandinavian” Islamist extremists fighting in Syria and called Scandinavian jihadis “the most dangerous leaders of ISIS” in the region. The battle against Islamic State and other islamist groups in the war torn country has claimed the lives of over 200,000 people and currently is the worst humanitarian crisis since WWII. (Photo: Foreign Affairs’ interview …

Diversity and preservation of traditional culture are not contradictory One of our times most renowned religion sociologist, Peter Bergers work is characterized by a dramatic mid-career transformation of his view on the role of religion in modern society. In one article Berger goes so far as to admit to a major mistake during his career as a sociologist: earlier he indicated …

See the video of the massacred young people in Kenya, made by those close to the victims as they mourn the 148 young students killed by Al Shabab solely because they were Christians. The horrific attack by Islamic al-Shabab jihadists speaks for the dehumanizing Islamist ideology that ends up slandering the name of every decent Muslim. The Garissa-atrocities are the latest of …

Time Magazine’s Simon Robinson has said it quite succinctly:  “If Europe wants to become a global power, it needs to stop acting like a collection of rich, insular states and start fighting for its beliefs.” Today the old concept of brotherly love, another term for solidarity, is no longer in fashion. It has slowly become legitimate to be self centered …