Europe has a dream—the dream of Schengen. Schengen represents a borderless unity, with European states united to the economic and social benefit of all of them, in peace and harmony: What makes the allegiance to Schengen so strong among Europeans? … Continue reading →
Berlin Christmas market terrorist Anis Amri has been shot and killed by police in northern Italy. It’s not that the police managed to trace his movements, but it seems that “a tip” (more about that later) led police in Italy … Continue reading →
Here’s some information on the new suspect in the Berlin Christmas market attack: Anis Amri, 23, from Tataouine, Tunisia left his home seven years ago according to his father and travelled to Europe as an illegal immigrant. Amri, who has … Continue reading →
The 23-year-old Pakistini recent asylum seeker who is in police custody as a suspect in the Christmas market attack may not be the right man. Police aren’t saying exactly why they think he isn’t the perp, except that he’s denying … Continue reading →
A truck plowed into a crowd of Christmas shoppers, killing 9 and injuring 50. This is the new pattern of low-tech terror attacks: knives or vehicles, weapons found easily by almost anyone: A man was arrested on suspicion of being … Continue reading →
The scene was an opening in an art gallery. The perpetrator, according to some initial reports (this is a breaking story), was a police officer with a message: According to Sky News, the attacker shouted: “We made an oath to … Continue reading →
…may have brought down an EgyptAir plane last May: TTraces of explosives have been found on the bodies from the EgyptAir crash in May ”” suggesting that the plane was bombed out of the sky by terrorists, according to several … Continue reading →
Just great: A German intelligence officer has reportedly been arrested over a suspected Islamist plot to bomb the agency’s headquarters in Cologne… The BfV said the man “behaved inconspicuously” prior to his arrest. He had, since April, been engaged in … Continue reading →
I’m not sure how much of this book I believe. But it certainly sounds like an interesting read: The world has heard almost nothing from KSM in the 15 years since the 9/11 attacks, but Mitchell has spent thousands of … Continue reading →
Richard Landes is a brilliant writer (and a friend of mine), and I urge you to look at this post of his offering some definitions in the cognitive war fought by the press and the left in convincing the West … Continue reading →
When I was in college, I took a year-long survey course in art history. We began with a deep dive into Greek and Roman art, and then lingered long and hard on the cathedrals of Europe, particularly the Gothic variety. … Continue reading →
It’s such a familiar story. After acts of terrorism (or even non-terrorist mass shootings) we hear one of two refrains: he (or she, but it’s almost always a “he”) was a quiet and regular guy and no one saw it … Continue reading →