Dale Price cites some data sent to him by novelist (and frequent comm box visitor) S.M. Stirling, indicating that the Muslim birthrate in Europe is dropping off too.
Maybe so. I want to see more correlation, though.

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Utter stupidity…
An American soldier used a Quran, the Islamic holy book, for target practice in a predominantly Sunni area west of Baghdad, prompting an apology from the U.S. military, a spokesman said Sunday.
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Iraqi police found the bullet-riddled Quran with graffiti inside the cover on a small-arms range near a police station in Radwaniyah, a former [...]

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Let’s get this out of the way: I am not a Fatima conspiracy theorist. I do not read Fatima Crusader, I don’t write letters to Cardinal Bertone asking for the full secret, and I don’t hunker down in my bunker awaiting the return of the Ruskies.
But neither am I entirely convinced that all there is [...]

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As I was finishing up my current issue of The American Conservative on the ride home last night, I came across a piece in the “Arts & Letters” section that was an unexpected delight. Writer Stuart Reid tackled George Weigel’s book, Faith, Reason, and the War Against Jihadism: A Call to Action, and did so [...]

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The Vatican has announced that Islam officially claims more members than the Catholic Church.
You know what that means. Better start cracking on having more kids.

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I was checking web stats today and saw I had visitors coming from Slate.com. They apparently did a blog roundup on the new Bin Laden tape, and they excerpted my agitated suggestion that we oblige OBL on his accusation that the pope wants a new crusade:
Steve Skojec says bring it on: “If you want a new crusade, [...]

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Sounds like Osama Bin Laden has decided to drag the Holy Father into his scheming nonsense, blaming him for a non-existent role in offending Muslims - which, by the way, is not very hard to do. This has to do with the political cartoons in Denmark that satirically depicted Mohammed, which, as we know, sent Osama [...]

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I just can’t get enough of our wacky allies, the Saudis:
A 37-year-old American businesswoman and married mother of three is seeking justice after she was thrown in jail by Saudi Arabia’s religious police for sitting with a male colleague at a Starbucks coffee shop in Riyadh.
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Her ordeal began with a routine visit to the new [...]

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Hilary White has a gift for writing with clarity that I lack. My thoughts are such a jumbled mass that they often seem to come out that way, lacking the clarity of insight I feel that I have in the abstract.
On the subject of Muslim reformists - those who wish for a better, kinder Islam, [...]

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Vatican, Muslims Plan ‘Historic’ Meeting

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