Mark Collins – A Great Book From a Romanian Jew, Mihail Sebastian: “Journal 1935–1944: The Fascist Years”

Further to this post, What’s an Intellectual Romanian Jew to do Before WW II? I am finishing his journal: It is an accumulation of events, thoughts and emotions that is one of the most powerful boo…

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Mark Collins – How Pakistanis Remember Partition of India and Events Leading Thereto

Further to this post from 2012, India and Pakistan: “Why Partition?” … (the Pakistanis have a long historical basis for some of their paranoia)… excerpts from a May 2015 article: Why Is…

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Mark Collins – NJ/NY Bombings: How a Young Afghan-American Turned to Jihad

Ahmad Rahami’s sad story of a terrible inability to reconcile a clash of cultures–excellent in-depth reporting at the NY Times: Journey From Class Clown to Suspect in Chelsea Bombing If…

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Mark Collins – Islam, Jihads, Caliphates and End Times

Excerpts from a review article at the Times Literary Supplement: Wars of Religion THOMAS SMALL [more here] This piece forms part of a TLS Special Feature, our primer on the complex politics and rel…

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Mark Collins – Islamic Reformation? Moroccan Monarch Section

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Mark Collins – “2016 Public Report On The Terrorist Threat To Canada”

Here’s the “Executive Summary” from this year’s report: … Threat Environment The principal terrorist threat to Canada remains that posed by violent extremists who coul…

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Mark Collins – Mosques: French Crackdown on Foreign Funding (Canada/Saudis?)

France can be tough: To curb radicalism, France targets foreign funding for mosques After three major terrorist attacks in the last year and a half, public outrage has forced the French government …

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Mark Collins – The Life and Mind of Dead Canadian ISIS Jihadi Aaron Driver

The start of a major article by a real Canadian expert (more here) on Islamist radicalization who knew the young man quite well: What Aaron told me: An expert on extremism shares his conversations …

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Mark Collins – France vs Islamist Terrorism: “Merciless”

Further to this post, Fighting Islamist Terrorism: A Darker Future for Freedom? also sprach Sarko: Islamists attack French church, slit priest’s throat … MERCILESS …former preside…

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Mark Collins – No “End of History”, “Collapse of the Liberal World Order” Section

Further to this post, No “End of History”, or, Don’t Expect Any Lovely Converging International Community more from Harvard Prof. Stephen Walt: … The world is entering a period where once-rob…

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