From the desk of The Brussels Journal on Sun, 2007-01-07 09:29
A quote from Jasper Gerard in The Observer, 7 January 2007
[Simone Clarke] might be a nut, but why crack her with a sledgehammer? If you can no longer hold views liberal society rightly regards as repugnant, how liberal is your society? […] We are faced with McCarthyism in reverse, an illiberal liberalism. Perhaps we should call it Livingstonism, after Ken. Or maybe Stourtonism, for its home is the BBC.
From the desk of Fjordman on Sat, 2007-01-06 09:32
Islamopop star Cat Stevens, aka Yusuf Islam, gets awarded a major Eurabian prize. This gives you some idea of just how vast and established the Eurabian networks are. They are unfortunately very real, not a conspiracy theory. Yusuf Islam is notorious for having supported the Islamic death penalty for Salman Rushdie. He also refuses to denounce Hamas.
From the desk of The Brussels Journal on Sat, 2007-01-06 08:58
[S]ince Europe is closer and more accessible to the Middle East than the United States, it serves as an alternative to anyone seeking to attack the ‘distant enemy.’ Europe contains a variety of appropriate targets, some of which are connected with the United States and with Israel, and a strike on one or more of these targets would draw huge international attention. [...] [S]ome of the conflicts in the Middle East are mentioned extensively in the rhetoric uttered by the Islamist terrorists. However, the resolution of these conflicts would have no effect on ending global terror, which is functionally disconnected from these conflicts.
From the desk of The Brussels Journal on Fri, 2007-01-05 21:19
A quote from George Bush in The Wall Street Journal, 3 January 2007
The bottom line is tax relief and spending restraint are good for the [...] worker, good for the [...] taxpayer, and good for the [...] budget. Now is not the time to raise taxes.
From the desk of The Brussels Journal on Fri, 2007-01-05 14:59
Switzerland does not need fiscal lessons from France. The French Left has to accept its own mistakes. The 35-hour week is a failure for which left-wing politicians try to compensate by raising taxes. They had better realize that Swiss employees work 20% harder than the French.
From the desk of Rondi Adamson on Fri, 2007-01-05 14:52
Canadians are not known for the quality of the television they produce. Yet a Canadian sitcom set to debut on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (the CBC) next week is getting slightly more publicity than Gulf Wars I and II combined. And not just in Canada. CNN and The New York Times – among others – have given airtime and column space to “Little Mosque on the Prairie.” The title is a play on the 1970s family show, Little House on the Prairie, based on the books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. But the “prairie” in question here is a fictional town in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The series is said to focus on Canadian Muslims interacting with their non-Muslim neighbours, and all the hilarity that will naturally ensue.
From the desk of The Brussels Journal on Fri, 2007-01-05 14:42
From today, it is time to prepare for France’s Presidency of the European Union in 2008. I want a Europe that protects against the disorder of globalisation, where the only law is that of the market.
From the desk of The Brussels Journal on Fri, 2007-01-05 14:39
A quote from Dennis Prager at WorldNetDaily, 3 January 2007
If America abandons its Judeo-Christian values basis and the central role of the Jewish and Christian Bibles, its founders' guiding text, we are all in big trouble, including, most especially, America's non-Christians. Just ask the Jews of secular Europe.
From the desk of Paul Belien on Thu, 2007-01-04 22:14
“The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum,” one of the most famous novels by Heinrich Böll, the German winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, relates how an ordinary housewife becomes the victim of a callous journalist. In the story the reporter, Werner Tötges, works for Die Zeitung, a right-wing mass circulation paper. Tötges deliberately ruins the life of Katharina Blum, a divorced housewife, who has met Ludwig Götten, a bank robber on the run from the police.
From the desk of The Brussels Journal on Thu, 2007-01-04 19:02
A quote from EU Observer, 4 January 2007
Ninety thousand Poles alone registered to work in Ireland in 2006 compared to 65,000 in 2005 according to the Irish national insurance office, with over 250,000 new workers settling on the island since 2004.
