The writer V. S. Naipaul died a year ago today, on August 11, 2018, at the age of 85. A novelist, travel writer, essayist, and historian, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001. His most important works, for me, have been the two books he devoted to studies of Islam and Muslim peoples. Among […]
Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul: Islamic State “dedicated to a contemporary holocaust”
To call the Islamic State the Fourth Reich is to diminish it. The Islamic State is even more savage and barbaric than the Third Reich was. They just don’t have the means (yet) to commit mass murder on the scale they’d like. “A grotesque love of propaganda. Unspeakable barbarity. The loathing of Jews – and […]