“While the Europeans occupied themselves with hysterical speculative eschatology, the Ottomans expanded their conquests. Sultan Selim called for a renewed Ji’had and added Greece, Macedonia, and the Balkans to his empire. His son, Suleiman, swept into Belgrade in 1521, expelled the Templars from Rhodes in 1522, and conquered Hungary in 1526. Then in 1529 he …
A Sexual Haunting
“As syphilis spread all over Europe, the horror at its unprecedented virulence spread with it. It was the sexual version of the black plague. As the descriptions of the doctors who first diagnosed the disease make clear, the advent of syphilis had much to do with the iconography of horror. The horrible faces in horror …
Sprawl With Pall!
Correction: I have been informed that my example of the gays or lesbians below was misinformed. The proposed law allows everybody up to one boarder and this allows for the scenario I described. My apologies for the bum dope. The law, however, does discriminate against a bisexual with three kids. It has been a while …
Marking 911
Today marks the sixth year since the 911 attacks. This is just a brief post to remember those who died, and to express the fervent wish that my grandchildren will not have to deal with the same sort of threat from international terror, domestic erosions of their liberty, or both. It is easy in the …
God’s Iconoclasm
“It was not until 733, when Charles Martel stopped the Moslem advance north of the Pyrenees, that this first great period of Islamic expansion came to an end. In just one hundred years time, the map of the venerable old Mediterranean world had practically been transformed from one vast Christian empire into a vast Islamic …
Sexually Transmitted Dracula
“For instance, Coppola has Van Helsing mention the word syphilis, which is the book’s ultimate taboo, but the whole point of Dracula as monster is that neither Stoker nor Harker can mention syphilis. The monster is, in effect, the sign that neither Stoker nor Harker can bring themselves to face the true cause of their …
No Political Solution
Sermon Video "The conflict between the Jews and the Moslems is not a question of borders or settlements or political self-determination. Thus, it cannot be solved simply by manipulating the political ...
Those Pesky Logical Conclusions
“In other words, horror is a kind of Enlightenment revisionism. Voltaire hoped for a society where religion and morals were abolished but where shopkeepers would still be honest. Sade showed the naiveté of that vision by carrying the premises upon which it was based to their logical conclusion” (E. Michael Jones, Monsters from the Id, …
The Past, Present and Potent
“Early in his tenure, Saddam Hussein announced his intentions to restore Iraq’s Babylonian heritage. He launched a meticulous, multi-billion-dollar excavation and reconstruction of the ancient city located sixty miles south of Baghdad, rebuilding a number of its most significant sites. They included Nechadnezzar’s opulent grand palace, the vast Esagila temple precinct, the beautiful Via Sacra …
Blinded Me With Science
“The parallels between Justine [by de Sade] and Frankenstein become obvious at this point. Sexual desire using science as a cover turns human beings into objects by promoting the notion that morals are either ‘unscientific’ or are a mere epiphenomenon of the mechanism as yet not understood ” (E. Michael Jones, Monsters from the Id, …