Christie Davies

Latest by Christie Davies in Chronicles

• Reviews

  January 2016

  Religion Is Always There

  The varied and complex relations between religion and power can be understood only by means of extensive comparisons, between nations and across time. Who better to demonstrate this than Prof. David Martin, the doyen of the comparative sociology of religion?

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• Correspondence

  July 2015

  Muslim Crimes in Britain

  During the last few months in Britain there have been yet more revelations of new Muslim crimes and detailed confirmations of older ones.

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• Cultural Revolutions

  July 2015

  Extravagant Abandon

  On May 22, the Irish people voted by a large majority to permit marriages between two men or two women. Of the two million people who voted—a 60-percent turnout—62 percent supported same-sex “marriage.”

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• Correspondence

  November 2014

  Answering the Scottish Question

  The people of Scotland have spoken. Scotland has voted not to secede from the United Kingdom and to remain in her long-standing union with England and Wales.

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• News

  March 2014

  Muslim Murder in London

  Last May, Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, two Muslim converts, both Christian apostates, deliberately ran down an off-duty British soldier, Lee Rigby, in their automobile on a main street in the London suburb of Woolwich. In front of eyewitnesses, they then repeatedly stabbed him and tried to behead him with a machete.

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• Correspondence

  November 2013

  The Muslim Invasions of Europe

  In May Pope Francis canonized the 800 martyrs of Otranto, a city in Apulia in Southern Italy, who were slaughtered by the Turkish invaders of 1480.

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• Cultural Revolutions

  July 2013

  Jihad From Within

  The last major outburst of Muslim terrorism in London was on July 7, 2005, when four suicide bombers killed 52 people on London’s buses and subway trains.

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• News

  May 2013

  One Law for the Left...

  For many weeks the press in Britain have been obsessed with the Jimmy Savile sex scandal, and it has many months to run.

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• Correspondence

  November 2012

  Obama, the Death Camps, and Polish Anger

  It is no exaggeration to say that the entire Polish nation was outraged and insulted by President Obama’s clumsy reference in a May 28 speech to “Polish death camps.” Not only did the Poles play no part in setting up and running the Nazi camps where millions of Jews were murdered, but when the killings took place, there was no Poland.

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• Vital Signs

  October 2012

  Homage to Gaudi

  Barcelona is one of the great cities of the Mediterranean, and Barcelona’s most noted architect is Antoni Gaudí i Cornet. It is worth visiting Catalonia and the cities of Barcelona and Reus just to see Gaudí’s work.

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• News

  October 2011

  Islam and Breivik's Bombs

  The killing of 8 people by a bomb in Oslo, placed by the Norwegian berserker Anders Behring Breivik, followed by his gunning down of a further 69 on the island of Utoya, is a horrible reminder of the potential for evil inherent in human nature.

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• Correspondence

  June 2011

  Muslim Sex Crimes in Northern England

  In Britain there have been 17 recent prosecutions of gangs of Muslim rapists and child molesters involved in the “on-street grooming” for sex of victims as young as 11 in several towns and cities in northern England.

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• Correspondence

  March 2011

  Britain's Leftists: Allies of the Islamists

  The people of England, after very considerable provocation, have lately come to fear England’s Muslims. Britain’s leftists have shifted in the opposite direction.

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• Correspondence

  October 2010

  Remember Katyn

  I arrived in Poland just as the television announced the tragic death of President Lech Kaczynski, his wife, Maria, and many of Poland’s military and political leaders in an airplane crash at Smolensk in Russia. A week of mourning followed throughout the entire country.

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• Correspondence

  April 2010

  The Center Cannot Hold

  The Church of England is made up of three parts: evangelical Protestants, Anglo-Catholics, and liberals. They have long been at war, and soon this war will lead to the final rending of that Church.

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• Correspondence

  November 2009

  Scottish Weakness and Muslim Impudence

  The decision to release the Libyan terrorist Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi from a Scottish prison has caused much anger in the United States. (Megrahi was convicted for his part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on December 21, 1988, which killed a total of 270 people.)

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• Correspondence

  May 2009

  Antifascists on the March

  All over Britain and Ireland, including the unpleasing town where I live, which is run by a left-wing junta, there are memorials to those who fought in the International Brigades on the Red Republican side in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39).

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• Correspondence

  April 2009

  Letter From Chile

  While traveling by bus in Chile in January 2008, I drew the attention of two other English-speaking passengers to a graffito, which read: Viva Pinochet Libertad!

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• View

  December 2008

  Muslim Pressure and Christian Appeasement

  In Britain, where, despite the efforts of our government to curtail them, freedom of speech and freedom of religion still exist, the Muslims have every right to their stall and their vile literature. What is more disturbing is that Christians are not able to press their views in the same way.

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• Correspondence

  April 2008

  The British Empire and the Muslims

  Last year in England, we marked the 60th anniversary of the voluntary granting of independence to India and Pakistan; it was also the year in which our military began to leave Iraq.

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