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Dr. Norman Berdichevsky

Dr. Norman Berdichevsky nberdichevsky.com, Ph.D. - Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1974, is an author, freelance writer, editor, researcher, lecturer, translator and teacher with sophisticated communications skills.

Most Recent Articles by Dr. Norman Berdichevsky:

How Jews Laugh at Themselves and why Muslims Seek Martyrdom

How have Israelis managed to survive psychologically once again after so many conflicts, war, terrorism and threats of annihilation? Jewish humor, like every other aspect of life, was conditioned by centuries of existence as an outcast minority subject to scorn, rejection and, at times, ostracism from the rest of society.
- Thursday, August 26, 2010

The Media’s Vain Search for Why Muslims “Become Radicalized”

Our media and government have essentially promoted an ignorance of what motivates Muslims to undertake violent acts preferring to focus on their individual problems of being marginalized in Western societies and subject to discrimination, estrangement due to their inability to integrate or be successful. The look of benign puzzlement on the face of Attorney General Holden when asked about the common factor of "Radical Islam" in the behavior and attempted acts of terrorism by those individuals apprehended and questioned over the past year and a half of the Obama administration reveals a profound avoidance of following the dictum if it looks like a duck and walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck.
- Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Jihad in The Twentieth Century and Today

Look at any college textbook on comparative religions or world geography and what you learn about Islam is essentially the harmless but colorful doctrines of devotion and worship that Muslims around the world practice on a daily or seasonal basis, referred to as The Five Pillars of Islam.
- Monday, August 23, 2010

The Myth of the Golden Age in Muslim Spain

imageApologists for Islam including those agitating for a mosque and Muslim community center at Ground Zero (labeled as the "Cordoba Initiative") never tire of referring to the "Golden Age" of tolerance that supposedly characterized seven centuries of Muslim dominated Spain. This fundamentally flawed assessment draws the wrong conclusion based on fragmentary evidence and distorts the larger picture. It is usually portrayed in such rosy terms by those who have no access to primary Spanish language historical sources and ignores the reality of enormous destruction wrought by the three Arab-Berber Muslim invasions that repeatedly sought to hold on to control and rule over the indigenous peoples of Spain who had been reduced to second class citizens in their own homeland; see for example the recent best seller - Espana Frente al Islam De Mahoma a Ben Laden" by Cesar Vidal, 2005; La Sfera de los Libros.
- Saturday, August 21, 2010

Islam and America: From Barbary Pirates to the Ground zero Mosque

Numerous “Liberal” opinion pieces/editorials in the American press defending the decision by President Obama to support the “right” to build a mosque at ground-zero casts call opponents of the mosque in Manhattan at Ground Zero Republicans and or bigots. Apparently they wrote this before the statement of Democratic Senate majority Leader Harry Reid or the interview of Bill O’Reilly with the director of the largest Muslim Association in Canada, both of whom called for the mosque to be built elsewhere. They have been joined by the editors of Al-Arabiya who also argue that the decision to build a mosque at Ground Zero is unfortunate and not in the interests of American Muslims and that in that area of lower Manhattan there is no resident Muslim population whatsoever.
- Wednesday, August 18, 2010

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