Matthew S. posted an article on The Atheist Conservative - Feb 8, 2012, 12:12 pm
An Iranian reader, Kourosh, tells us that “Iranians don’t care about Mahdi or any of those things. I’m Iranian and I can tell you that most Iranian youth hate Islam and love America/Israel. It’s the Arabs that are the problem. Remember that Iran is a multiethnic country, only 60% of Iran is ...
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Matthew S. posted an article on The Atheist Conservative - Feb 7, 2012, 5:20 pm
The Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas score a victory, with only a US general being fired. Here in part is the story as told and commented on by Diana West: One day, William G. “Jerry” Boykin, a highly decorated retired Army general and ordained minister, and a founding member and leader of Delta...
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Matthew S. posted an article on The Atheist Conservative - Feb 7, 2012, 4:26 pm
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) objected to the use by the New York City Police Department  (NYPD) of a factual documentary film called The Third Jihad in their counterterrorism training courses. CAIR, which has ties to terrorist organizations, demanded that the NYPD stop using it...
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Matthew S. posted an article on The Atheist Conservative - Feb 7, 2012, 12:56 pm

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Matthew S. posted an article on The Atheist Conservative - Feb 7, 2012, 10:54 am
In an article that makes good sense until the very last sentence, Ken Blackwell writes at Townhall: The recent high-level comings and goings between Jerusalem and Washington remind us of nothing so much as all those “consultations” between top-level officials of two other democratic allies seve...
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Matthew S. posted an article on The Atheist Conservative - Feb 6, 2012, 10:11 am
How can it benefit Israel to give Alawites asylum when the Assad government falls? Apparently the Israeli government is preparing to do so. Will a victorious Sunni majority in Syria hunt down the Alawites in revenge for the dictatorial Assad rule? Some Israelis seem to think so. But why does Isra...
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Matthew S. posted an article on The Atheist Conservative - Feb 6, 2012, 10:10 am
If you like pictures of flowers opening, have a high boredom threshold, can stand monotonous religious chants and the intoning of nonsense, and would be amused to catch a glimpse of Nancy Reagan as an evil Freemason, this is the video for you.
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Matthew S. posted an article on The Atheist Conservative - Feb 5, 2012, 12:08 pm
This is from an article by Jack Doyle at the MailOnline: The number of Muslim converts in Britain has passed 100,000 … The figure has almost doubled in ten years – with the average convert now a 27-year-old white woman fed up with British consumerism and immorality. Whose “consumerism and i...
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Matthew S. posted an article on The Atheist Conservative - Feb 5, 2012, 11:16 am
Islam has woken up to modernity. Muslims feel humiliated by their backwardness. A violent onslaught against the Western world is their foolish attempt at a remedy. The jihad as it is being waged now is the most widespread, most aggressive temper tantrum in recorded history. (Video from Hot Air)
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Matthew S. posted an article on The Atheist Conservative - Feb 4, 2012, 12:46 pm
On February 1, 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini — the leader of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution — returned triumphantly to Tehran on an Air France flight from Paris after 14 years in exile. Now, 33 years later, that return was reenacted in a bizarre ceremony that saw guards carrying a giant c...
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Matthew S. posted an article on The Atheist Conservative - Feb 3, 2012, 2:41 pm
The Occupy movement is turning against and horrifying its supporters on the religious left. This is from an article by Mark Tapson at Front Page: Initially, the Los Angeles Times pronounced the Occupy movement “a predominantly secular undertaking,” although it did note that “some left-leani...
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Matthew S. posted an article on The Atheist Conservative - Feb 2, 2012, 5:20 pm
Where are you going, humankind? The future now being shaped by new technologies seems to scare some of the very people who know most about them. These extracts are from an article by N.M.Guariglia which we find somewhat incoherent, in that it dodges about from subject to subject, and needs more e...
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Matthew S. posted an article on The Atheist Conservative - Feb 1, 2012, 4:01 pm
Adolf Hitler did not seize power in Germany; he was given power by democratic process, and then he established his dictatorship. Hamas came to power in the Gaza strip through democratic election. It is unlikely to allow another election. In Tunisia and Egypt, democratic elections have brought par...
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Matthew S. posted an article on The Atheist Conservative - Jan 31, 2012, 1:57 pm
Some of our readers (who may have spoken for many) have let us know that they disagree with Pat Condell – and so with us too – on what he says in the video we posted yesterday. Contra Condell, they think a nativity scene on state property is a serious violation of the Constitution and should be...
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Matthew S. posted an article on The Atheist Conservative - Jan 30, 2012, 12:55 pm
Out of season because only just found, here is a recent video by Pat Condell speaking against a pathetic anti-Christmas campaign conducted by atheists of the Left.  As very often – without his knowing it, of course – he speaks for us.
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Matthew S. posted an article on The Atheist Conservative - Jan 29, 2012, 5:07 am
Winston Churchill, speaking in the House of Commons on November 11 (Remembrance Day), 1947, said: “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”                                                     ...
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Matthew S. posted an article on The Atheist Conservative - Jan 28, 2012, 1:34 pm
The video of this Afghan’s head being sawn off can be seen here. Steel yourself to watch it. Bearing that lurid demonstration in mind, now read this from a report about beheadings in Somalia last July: Islamic extremists have beheaded two young boys in Somalia because their Christian father r...
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Matthew S. posted an article on The Atheist Conservative - Jan 27, 2012, 2:11 pm
It was the worst mistake in the history of the USA – the election of a dedicated Communist to the presidency. Barack Hussein Obama, well in his forties but still besotted with his adolescent Communist ideology, who associated only with Marxists, Communist revolutionaries and terrorists – and the...
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Matthew S. posted an article on The Atheist Conservative - Jan 26, 2012, 11:50 am
We are not enamored of Mitt Romney (though he’d be a vast improvement on Obama if he became president). But we are against the left’s attack on him for paying, they say, too little in taxes. He’s obviously paying far too much. We take the position that in principle taxation is theft. Every p...
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Matthew S. posted an article on The Atheist Conservative - Jan 25, 2012, 12:06 pm
  The map shows the spread of Islam round the tiny state of Israel – which President Obama wants to make even smaller – as it is now. In the latter half of this century the greater part of Europe, if present demographic trends continue, will also be predominantly Muslim and governed by sharia...
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Matthew S. posted an article on The Atheist Conservative - Jan 24, 2012, 1:12 pm
In our time and the foreseeable future, the war between intellectual light and darkness will, we envision, increasingly be fought out by secularists, rationalists, atheists against the religious of all denominations, but most necessarily and urgently against Islam. This is by Daniel Greenfield, fro...
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Matthew S. posted an article on The Atheist Conservative - Jan 23, 2012, 12:42 pm
This is from Creeping Sharia. Beat a camel, beat a wife. The duty of a Muslim wife is to “lick pus and blood from her husband’s nose” – 0r be beaten. Comments by feminists are invited but not expected.
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Matthew S. posted an article on The Atheist Conservative - Jan 18, 2012, 4:12 pm
... Osama bin Laden’s “ambassador in Europe” after the 9/11 attacks on America, ... Human Rights (ECHR), which was drawn up after the Second World War as a ... -Qaeda.” He went on the run after 9/11 but was arrested in ... 10 years. So sentimentality brought its ever more ludicrous conse...
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Matthew S. posted an article on The Atheist Conservative - Jan 18, 2012, 11:31 am
How happy could I be with either Were t’other dear charmer away.                                                                        - John Gay: The Beggar’s Opera * Keystone XL is a TransCanada pipeline project to bring Canadian oil to the US. Trans...
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Matthew S. posted an article on The Atheist Conservative - Jan 17, 2012, 2:20 pm
We continue to suspect that Obama wants to protect Iran from an Israeli attack on its nuclear installations. But one part of the the report we quoted in our post Obama protects Iran from Israel, that the US called off scheduled joint military exercises with the Israelis, turns out to be untrue. The...
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Matthew S. posted an article on The Atheist Conservative - Jan 17, 2012, 12:23 pm
In the light of certain altercations that have taken place recently on our comment pages – less arguments than cursing and mud-slinging – we offer the balm of some words by Dr. Theodore Dalrymple, one of the (few) great moral thinkers of our time. The quotation comes from his recent book of coll...
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Matthew S. posted an article on The Atheist Conservative - Jan 16, 2012, 6:58 pm

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Matthew S. posted an article on The Atheist Conservative - Jan 15, 2012, 1:02 pm
Obama hates the idea of an attack on Iran. He also hated the idea of the long-planned joint military exercises with Israel – named “Austere Challenge 12″ – due to take place this spring. He looked for an excuse to scuttle them, and he found it. That is our interpretation of the events repo...
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Matthew S. posted an article on The Atheist Conservative - Jan 14, 2012, 2:29 pm
We are of course against the deliberate infliction of physical pain. But the infliction of humiliation, especially on enemies who hold what they call honor as their highest value, seems to us a very good way of punishing them or, used as a threat, of eliciting information from them. Which is why we ...
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Matthew S. posted an article on The Atheist Conservative - Jan 13, 2012, 12:32 pm
The Greeks’ last stand: abandon the children, feed the pedophiles. What is happening in Greece as the welfare state collapses perfectly illustrates the logic of politically correct policies - or in one word, socialism. This is from the MailOnline: Children are being abandoned on Greece’s stre...
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Matthew S. posted an article on The Atheist Conservative - Jan 12, 2012, 10:47 am
We have one huge difference of opinion (as well as quite a few small ones) with Ann Coulter: she is a Christian, we dislike and oppose all religion. But we often agree with her on political issues, and we relish her irony for which she has a gift. She writes: Earlier this week, Mitt Romney got in...
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Matthew S. posted an article on The Atheist Conservative - Jan 11, 2012, 1:53 pm
Richard Dawkins speaks at a “Protest the Pope” rally in September 2010. We particularly like what he said about the absurd and sadistic doctrine of “original sin”.
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Matthew S. posted an article on The Atheist Conservative - Nov 1, 2011, 8:02 am
The Last Testament: A Memoir by God (with David Javerbaum), Simon and Schuster, New York,  383 pages God is a happily married divinity. He and his wife, Ruth (yes, she of the Book) have three children, Zach, Jesus, and Kathy. Zach’s nickname is “the Holy Ghost”, H.G. for short. Kathy begge...
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Matthew S. posted an article on The Atheist Conservative - Oct 31, 2011, 3:34 pm
According to Wikipedia: “Since 1950, when a group of children in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, donated $17 they received on Halloween to help post-World War II victims, the Trick-or-Treat UNICEF box has become a tradition in North America during the haunting season. These small orange boxes are...
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Matthew S. posted an article on The Atheist Conservative - Oct 30, 2011, 2:00 pm
Professor Herman Philipse, of the University of Utrecht, talks in this video about Science versus Religion. We don’t agree with everything he says – eg. his accusation that the US is putting Holland under water –  and we think he takes rather too pedantically, professorially, seriously the m...
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Matthew S. posted an article on The Atheist Conservative - Oct 30, 2011, 1:55 pm
This is from the American Thinker: Most of us still stubbornly refuse to admit what we already know about Islam: that it’s a violent, malevolent religion whose adherents can’t stop themselves from announcing to us their intentions to make war against us until they’ve either killed us or made ...
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Matthew S. posted an article on The Atheist Conservative - Oct 29, 2011, 11:40 am
Pat Condell recommends the burka as the perfect costume to represent evil on Halloween.
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Matthew S. posted an article on The Atheist Conservative - Oct 28, 2011, 7:32 pm
Back in May it was reported that every rape assault in the city of Oslo in the last five years had been committed by a person with a “non-Western” background – a Norwegian euphemism for Muslim. Now it turns out that there have already been twice as many rape assaults in Oslo so far this year ...
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Matthew S. posted an article on The Atheist Conservative - Oct 28, 2011, 3:34 pm
A few of our regular readers become impatient with us when we write about religions – other than to dismiss them as nonsense, which we frequently do. We hope they’ll bear with us as we respond to comments and emails from readers who feel differently, by offering, as a follow-up to our post “A ...
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Matthew S. posted an article on The Atheist Conservative - Oct 27, 2011, 3:12 pm
Okay we’re only kidding. But in the light of this, don’t be surprised if it happens: Crucifixes hung in a classroom at the Catholic University — a private university in Washington, D.C. — are apparently now considered a violation of Muslim students’ human rights. It’s also a human rig...
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Matthew S. posted an article on The Atheist Conservative - Oct 27, 2011, 1:28 pm
Make no mistake about it – environmentalism is a new nature-worshiping religion. It’s vatican is the United Nations. Its inquisitors are walking up and down and to and fro on the earth furtively trying to enforce a ukase titled “Agenda 21″. We have warned about “Agenda 21″ (see our pos...
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Matthew S. posted an article on The Atheist Conservative - Oct 26, 2011, 12:44 pm
We see the “Occupy Wall Street” protest as a manifestation of economic ignorance and the politics of envy. We find confirmation of our view at PowerLine, where Steven Hayward quotes from the great free-market economist Friedrich Hayek: As we continue to fixate on the inchoate but plainly radic...
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Matthew S. posted an article on The Atheist Conservative - Oct 24, 2011, 2:58 pm
The pretense continues that “the rebels’ – a crowd of untrained Libyans dangerously armed – achieved the conquest of Tripoli and now the defeat of Gaddafi’s last defenders in Sirte and his capture. Here is a report from the Telegraph in which the writer tries to uphold the internationall...
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Matthew S. posted an article on The Atheist Conservative - Oct 24, 2011, 1:21 pm
“O ye who believe! Fight those of the disbelievers who are near to you, and let them find harshness in you, and know that Allah is with those who keep their duty (unto Him).” (Koran 9:123) Bruce Bawer quotes this and other passages from the Koran (there are many) that show plainly enough how Is...
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Matthew S. posted an article on The Atheist Conservative - Oct 23, 2011, 4:45 pm
It will be a great saga for historians to tell - How the West helped Islam to victory in state after state of the Arab world. How, while Islam stealthily and steadily penetrated and gained power in the Western democracies by exploiting their own mores and law, its power base was vastly extended an...
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Matthew S. posted an article on The Atheist Conservative - Oct 23, 2011, 3:03 pm
Reuters reports that if there were to be war between the US and Pakistan, Afghanistan would support Pakistan. So says that precious piece of corruption, President Hamid Karzai. It is the big f-figurative slap in the face. Afghanistan would support Pakistan in case of military conflict between Pa...
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Matthew S. posted an article on The Atheist Conservative - Oct 22, 2011, 2:21 pm
Yes, the culture of the West is superior to all the rest in every way that affects life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Here’s part of what Daniel Greenfield writes at his website Sultan Knish, thoroughly endorsing our boast on behalf of a maddeningly diffident and self-deprecating Wes...
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Matthew S. posted an article on The Atheist Conservative - Oct 22, 2011, 1:11 pm
Ron Paul must not be elected president because he is dangerously unrealistic in his opinion of what the role of the US should be (effectively none at all) in world affairs. But his proposals for cutting government spending, and so reducing the power of government, should be seriously considered by...
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Matthew S. posted an article on The Atheist Conservative - Oct 21, 2011, 2:05 pm
This video was made to give a taste of a forthcoming book, The Last Testament: A Memoir by God with David Javerbaum, which  will be published by Simon & Schuster on November 1, 2011. We’ll post a review of it on that day.
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Matthew S. posted an article on The Atheist Conservative - Oct 21, 2011, 1:58 pm
The article we quote here, by James Heiser at The New American, is about Christian women in Islamic states being raped by Muslim men who all too easily get away with it. The rapists’ motive, in addition to lust, is often (the writer says ) to force the victim to convert to Islam. We post this i...
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