Eike's thoughts about Islam

This was first published in the National Review ca. 2015 or 2016.   I am always skeptical that these sort of texts will remain available on the Internet. I have it seen too often and with too many good things that they suddenly "evaporate" without a trace. When I find an IMHO "good" text I always pull it off the Internet to be able to keep it. The following is a good example.    Begin quote: To avoid inciting anti-Muslim sentiment, the press and government overlook repeated, vicious riots targeting women. Many years ago I read a thought-provoking science-fiction short story about a sociologist who specialized in the important field of bureaucratic expansionism. I can’t recall the story’s title, and I haven’t found the story on the Web, but a colleague better schooled in sci-fi can probably identify it. Through my hazy memories, however, it goes something like this. The sociologist is excited because he thinks he has gone farther than anyone else

This was first published in the National Review ca. 2014 or 2015.   I am always skeptical that these sort of texts will remain available on the Internet. I have it seen too often and with too many good things that they suddenly "evaporate" without a trace. When I find an IMHO "good" text I always pull it off the Internet to be able to keep it. The following is a good example.     Begin quote: The Muslim men who tortured more than 1,400 girls are criminals. So are the authorities who covered it up. We often read or hear from the media that a nation is “shocked” or “horrified” by the revelation of some crime or government scandal. It is almost never true. At best, most people are disapproving or mildly interested in the shocking news. Since Tuesday afternoon, however, Britain has felt real shock and horror over the report that 1,400 young women in the South Yorkshire town of Rotherham had been groomed, raped, prostituted, trafficked, and brutally abused