Claims of systemic racism ignore historical realities

It is wrong to equate individual prejudice with state-sponsored discrimination

Claims of systemic racism ignore historical realitiesThe following is an excerpt from The Victim Cult: How The Grievance Culture Hurts Everyone And Wrecks Civilizations by Mark Milke. In this excerpt, Milke details how the “new” definition of racism from Ibram X. Kendi and others hollow out hard facts and reasoned analyses when a monocausal explanation – racism – is offered up…

How to tell fake victims from actual victims

The common link in victim cults is their pathological belief in perceived wrongs

How to tell fake victims from actual victimsThe following is an excerpt from The Victim Cult: How The Grievance Culture Hurts Everyone And Wrecks Civilizations by Mark Milke. In this excerpt, Milke details how the “new” definition of racism from Ibram X. Kendi and others hollow out hard facts and reasoned analyses when a monocausal explanation – racism – is offered up…

A sexual twist on environmental activism

In one amazing swoop, pagan spiritism, Earth worship, environmental activism, untethered eroticism and necromancy all come together

A sexual twist on environmental activismWhen creative intellect, left-wing politics and sexuality meet, the bizarre is sure to follow, even if it gets few followers. Take the ecosexual movement, pioneered by California PhDs Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens. In 2016, they penned the Ecosexual Manifesto. Maybe the Earth was screwed before, but this couple wants to work it over in…

Extinction Rebellion’s cult-like threat to society

Ultimately, they want nothing short of a transfer of democratic power to oligarchies of frantic enviro-zealots

Extinction Rebellion’s cult-like threat to societyCults obey a logic of their own rather than following the parameters of mainstream logic. Climate zealots who concertedly blockaded bridges and important public roads in order to help the planet against climate change defy common logic. Blockading traffic and at times endangering tens of thousands of commuters to pressure governments to listen to their…

Investing in children to stop the scourge of extremism

Through education young people can be made aware of how they’ll be used and exploited by the people who pretend to care for them

Investing in children to stop the scourge of extremismChildren’s rights advocate Marian Wright Edelman said, “The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; the question is whether we can afford not to.” When we don’t invest in our children, the results can indeed be disastrous. Norwegian filmmaker Deeyah Khan recently made a documentary called Jihad: A Story of…

After the fall: the Islamic State’s next chapter

The collapse of the Islamic State nation will have a profound effect on the organization but it will not eliminate its ongoing presence

After the fall: the Islamic State’s next chapterThe Islamic State (IS) is rapidly nearing collapse. But the end of IS is not nearly in sight. IS has lost control of eastern Mosul to a coalition of the Iraqi military and Kurdish, Shia and Sunni militias supported by the U.S. and its NATO allies. That same coalition, which has held together despite a…

Radical Islam and the war on terror: do names matter?

Terror is not an ideology or a set of beliefs. It's not an organization, a government or a state against which one can wage war. Terror is a tactic

Radical Islam and the war on terror: do names matter?In his first address to a joint session of Congress on Feb. 28, Donald Trump uttered two words that no other American president has ever spoken publicly: “radical Islam.” The statement was seen as a political victory for administration hardliners like adviser Steve Bannon and his protégé on the National Security Council, Sebastian Gorka. But…

Why Canadians are resisting Motion 103

Given the existing protections against unwarranted discrimination in Canada, Motion 103 clouds rather than clarifies the Islamic question

It's been decades since there was a discernibly white Canada, even longer since there was a predominantly white Anglo-Saxon Protestant version of the country. In the past half century, the country has embraced multiculturalism. Many religious groups make up the cultural mosaic of Canada: Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists and others, including many of the Islamic faith…