Last night I spoke in Beverly Hills, California as part of a panel with Bat Ye'or, the pioneering scholar of dhimmitude, and Rafael Israeli, author of the magnificent Islamikaze, a study of the ethos of suicide bombing.
It was a great evening. Bat Ye'or spoke with her usual fire and precision about the Islamization of Europe; Israeli, who is a comic talent worthy of late night television, added important information about the jihad ideology in general. I added some details about jihadist activity in the United States.
I noticed this morning that some people were asking about tapes of the event. I don't know details yet, but I did see last night that we were being filmed. I will find out how and when the video will be available -- if it will -- and keep you posted here at Jihad Watch.
Mr. Spencer:
I would pay BIG to see this. Please hurry! All of your devotees are breathless with anticipation - and I'm only half-kidding! ; - )
Glad to read Bob's report about last night's panel discussion with devastaing Bat Ye'or, ever funny but rapier-like Raphi Israeli and scintillating raconteur, Bob. If the taping was done by the west coast unit of C-SPAN then the tapes and DvD's of that might be available shortly. The C-SPAN taping of Bat Ye'or's talk at the Hudson Institute in Washington last week will be shown on C-SPAN at the ungodly hour of 7;00AM EST on Sunday, February 27th.
Additionally we have a magnificent filmed interview with Bat Ye'or done at Yale university earlier this month which could be made available for a nominal fee to cover reproduction and mailing.
For details you may obtain that by emailing me at: jerrygordon38@earthlink.net
Hi Robert,
All of Bat Ye'or's books are priced at $50 to $60. Is there a reason why they are so expensive?
I intend to purchase Eurabia in hardback but the sad part is that at that price the libraries don't carry them. At our local public libraries we have programs where we can request titles on new books and they add them to the circulation. I've requested many titles and they have complied; when it comes to Bat Ye'or's books they decline. Also, no one in the library ever heard of Bat Ye'or...Dhimmis etc.
Il Toscano
Silicon Valley
"Islamakazi"...I've never heard that term before. I wonder if the media will continue the semantic evolution describing the persons undertaking suicide bombings that has gone from suicide bomber to homicide bomber, and maybe once people understand the religious underpinnings of such acts, to Islamakazi.
il toscano....You can buy paperback versions of Bat Ye'or's books for much less than $50 at Amazon.com. I think I saw a new paperback copy of "The decline of Eastern Christianity under Islam", for about $23 there. They also have used books that are priced for even less. I'm not sure if "Eurabia" will see paperback for a while, but you could check it out.
il toscano and Dilophos -
"Eurabia" by Bat Ye'or is available NOW. . . order it direct from publisher (Paperback is $23.95 ) :
Direct order link for Bat Ye'or's "Eurabia"
I ordered my copy by phone and it was at my doorstep the next afternoon!
I just checked Amazon.com again - they are still only taking pre-orders. A couple of weeks ago, I read a comment at LGF that stated amazon refusing books .
Barnes and Noble also doesn't have any new copies to sell.
Walmart.com has the hard cover available for immediate shipping at $47.52. Unfortunately no paperback available at Walmart.
EURABIA is not for the faint of heart - but it certainly is an amazing read!
Il Toscano-
I picked up a paperback of "Islam and Dhimmitude" for under $30. I'm willing to bet you're looking at the prices on her hard and cloth cover books.
Am I being overly optimistic or do you all feel that the public mood is shifting if ever so slightly away from fawning obsequiousness to open-mouthed shock in reaction to more and more exposure to CAIR and thanks to Spencer, et al?
I do wonder if Americans feel that the Islamic threat is over because there haven't been any great outrages against us recently, and that those attacks in Europe are their own fault, and that attacks around the world are too far away to be interesting in daily life.
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Must have been a great event. I would be very interested in hearing the lecture.
I do not like the term Islamokazi as it mixes two totally different Ideological beliefs and situations.
One
the nationalistic belief in the "god like" features of the japanese emperor for whom one would sacrifice one's life IN A SITUATION OF WAR and in combat against military forces .
TWO
the indiscrimate killing of innocent civilians in a situation of peace for religious ideology.
If anything, this term excuses the suicide bomber from the horror of his crimes.
George,
why are you so hung up on linguistic hairsplitting? A lot of those homicide bombers did go after military targets and the Japanese certainly were not very tender to their civilian "untermenschen", like the millions of Chinese they butchered. It's not a big part of our history books, but in retaliation for the people of China helping Doolittle's flyers, the Japanese went on a punitive expedition that killed 200K Chinese civilians. But somehow that scene was omitted from "Pearl Harbor".
Sonofwalker, I would say that there is no difference between "public opinion" and ourselves on the blogosphere. Because our temper is rising, because more and more of us refuse not to see what has been staring us in the face for forty years or more, therefore you get more and more blogs being written and more and more people writing in. You might almost suggest that the MSM and Hollywood reaction (which has gone as low as Ridley Scott's coming anti-Templar movie, which rehashes lies that were known to be lies 160 years ago) is a sort of reflex to guard against their own increasing irrelevancy: if the great unwashed, hoi polloi, have the presumption to make up their own minds on issues of such importance, then what can we do but place ourselves increasingly against their views, on the assumption that of course we are better than they are? This, in turn, is the prelude to cultural suicide.
In the late 1930s and early 1940s, Hollywood threw its sword in the scales for opposing Hitler and tyranny and supporting freedom and democracy, not only in the obvious ways - such as MRS. MINIVER and CASABLANCA - but by inventing a sort of mythology of freedom, whose finest product is Curtiz and Flynn's ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD. At the time, Hollywood managed to have a universal cultural significance. These days, it is an isolated capitalist backwater.
RIKKI
i am not unfamiliar with the Sino japanese war and the Horrors inflicted by Japanese imperialism in Manchuria, The defence of Nankung et al.
In fact Pearl Harbour can be argued to have been a continuation of a war that was started in the mid Thirties by the Japanese.
But i do thimk that the idea of the kamikazi was one that refers to the attacks of japanese war planes on allied naval forces.
It also implies some heroism in that the japanese pilots, howver misguided, were sacrificing themselves for their country.
i can not say the same for the scum who blow themselves up in kindeergardens or public bustops.