New Zealand Conservative

I'm of the opinion that it is vital to understand the real history of the world, rather than the spun narratives that end up making young NZ'ers of European ancestry think that their own culture is not that special . Even the Crusades are something to be proud of. Unfortunately, the Crusades have quite a bad name due to major misinformation and historical ignorance of what the world was like at that time. The cultural relativists on the Left and apologists for radical Islam like to blame the Crusades for almost everything . The Muslim extremists are only responding to the deeds of Christian extremists, the argument goes. In his new book, Sir Walter Scott’s Crusades and Other Fantasies , former Muslim Ibn Warraq takes on this misleading theme intended to blame the West for the Muslim world’s troubles. The claim that the Crusades are the starting point of Islamic jihad is basically the political application of, “For every action, there is an equal but opposite reactio...

Anyone who considers themselves a fighter and deliberately targets unarmed men, women and even children is a coward. I don't care if they are risking their lives, because these types will most likely commit suicide (another cowardly act), but anyone who walks into a shopping mall to make war against women and children is a coward. Islam, is the religion of cowards. Here are some stories that might not make the mainstream news on the cowardly Somali attack against the Westgate Mall in Kenya: NYPD redeploys counterterror units in response to Kenya jihad attack The NYPD said that that it has redeployed some of its counterterror units in response to the attack on a mall in Kenya Saturday that killed dozens, but that there are no specific threats to the city. "We keep track of events across the globe as they unfold and we adjust our counter terrorism efforts accordingly," said Deputy Commissioner John McCarthy in a statement. We have redeployed our critical response...

But it is rapidly sliding into Stalinist tyranny - Freedom of Speech - hurrumph , open Government phooey .

I always thought the whole "Arab Spring" thing would never result in anything good. Democracy requires a democratic people, it won't work if the population can't function that way. Here is a really interesting article from FrontPage by Daniel Greenfield, which explains the situation in Egypt, from the point of view of Westerners expecting to see what's not really there, in the same way that mirages occur in the desert. It's an apt metaphor. Deserts are funny things. A big wide open space in which nothing moves can play tricks on the mind. Spend enough time looking at a desert and you will see things moving in it because your mind needs to believe that there is life in it. Look hard enough and you will see democracy, progress and change. But when you close your eyes and open them again, you will see that there is only a desert. And that there only ever was a desert. Everything else was a mirage. Egypt has gone back to what it was before the Arab Sp...

Will the mainstream media give Pope Francis the same sort of coverage that they did to his interview? Somehow I doubt it, but I hope I'm wrong. ROME, September 20, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a meeting with Catholic gynaecologists this morning Pope Francis strongly condemned abortion as a manifestation of a “throwaway culture.” " Every unborn child, though unjustly condemned to be aborted, has the face of the Lord, who even before his birth, and then as soon as he was born, experienced the rejection of the world ," the pope said. The comments come one day after the release of an in-depth interview in which the Pope had explained that despite criticism he has avoided speaking about moral issues like abortion and gay “marriage” in his papacy, instead focusing on preaching about the love of Christ. Well, that might upset a few people who think that Francis was relaxing the rules. Speaking to the International Federation of Catholic Medical Associations, Pope Fran...