Alexander Maistrovoy is a graduate of Moscow Univ. in Journalism, worked there in his field and made aliyah in 1988. He works at the Russian language newspaper Novosty Nedely, has had articles posted on many internet sites and authored “Ways of God” about different religious and ethnic groups in the Holy Land, and with Mark Kotliarsky the Russian book Jewish Atlántida.
The world of Quisling’s followers, barbarian colonizers and submissive or at best frightened murmuring herd - this is the Western Europe of the 21st century
"Progressive man" refuses to recognize the crimes of Islam, not because he is naive, fine-tempered or tolerant. He does it because, unconsciously or subconsciously, he has already accepted Islam as a religion of Salvation. As he accepted Stalinism, Hitlerism, Maoism and the "Khmer Rouge" before it...
Want to see Anti-Utopia? Look at the state of mind of the Western establishment.
After Trump’s win, a huge part of enlightened America was plunged into mourning. Students were crying, teachers canceled lectures to calm them down, "hotlines" started working to help desperate people.
It is difficult to say who will be elected by American people, but the world (except sterile Western Europe) has made its choice. And this choice, in spite of formal logic, is the "racist," "sexist," "imperialist", "islamophobe" Donald Trump
After the Brexit and recent attacks against migrants in Britain I can’t get rid of deja vu feeling. As if I’ve already watched this movie a quarter of a century ago. I know its end and it’s not a happy one.
The Islamic world of the Middle East is sinking into the gloomy and forgotten past: the Bronze Age, the world of slavery, human sacrifice, pedophilia, sexual sacred traditions, beliefs in conspiracies and now the most terrible - ritual cannibalism
Cultural totalitarianism of the Postmodern era did the impossible - it changed the very nature of man
In my correspondence regarding the events in Cologne, an editor of a Russian newspaper asked me a natural, but discouraging question; "Where were the German men?", he enquired of me, perplexed.
If you have NO OWN values to fight against Islam, you are doomed.
“France is at war,” President Francois Hollande said after the Paris ISIS attack (as if Islamic terrorism hadn't struck before: - 9/11; Madrid in 2004; London in 2005; Boston in 2003; the Boston Marathon bombing'; countless acts of terrorism in Israel, Russia, Kenya, Nigeria, and finally "Charlie Hebdo"). Hollande is awakening from a dream, like the West is awakening in general.
Western leaders, the media and experts state the obvious: the Kremlin is trying to save Assad. Of course, yes, but principal points remain outside of the focus of their attention.
"The prospects are bright, but the road has twists and turns". These are the words of Mao Zedong, but they could have belonged to Obama. Unfortunately, "twists and turns" will be so numerous, that not many will manage to see the “bright prospects”.
Iran - another predator is set free during Obama's cadence
They are not empires yet. They don’t have enough power or the resources for becoming such. However, all of them - Russians, Turks, Arabs, Persians - are dreaming about empires, recalling old conquests and victories. And all of them should be grateful to the West, and the US president in particular.
Right after taking office, Federica Mogherini, the new EU foreign minister, said she "would be happy if by the end of my term, a Palestinian state existed". Her words exactly - "would be happy".
"I studied the Koran a great deal ... I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as that of Muhammad". (Alexis de Tocqueville)
ISIS is pure, uncomplicated Islam in its most genuine, original form
Thomas Friedman's article is a reflection of an inverted world in which the West exists. A world where minor secondary characters are villains, where genuine villains never appear at the scene, and people are united by good intentions and ties of friendship.
Not only are they ignorant of themselves, they cannot avoid falling into a ditch or stumbling over a rock in the path (perhaps they are bleary-eyed from studying or just absent-minded); yet they claim to know about abstract ideas, universals, separate forms, primary matter, quiddities, and different modes of being--objects so phantasmal I doubt Lynceus himself could make them out." -- Erasmus, In Praise of Folly (Folly, 56)
While condemning the actions of Russia in Crimea, John Kerry said that the time of Empires is long gone; we live in the "21st century, and not in the 19th century". After speaking with Putin, Angela Merkel said that he lost touch with reality and that he lives “in another dimension”.
Those who talk about peace between the Arabs and Israel don’t know the half of it. In fact, this peace exists – moreover, in recent years it has become significantly stronger
“The people crave destruction of Israel!” These were the slogans thousands of people came with to a massive demonstration in Al-Azhar Mosque - the spiritual bastion of "Muslim Brotherhood" in Egypt. However remarkable this event was, it was left unnoticed in the mass media. It was the first mass demonstration against Israel, organized by the "Muslim Brotherhood", with Mohamed Morsi - the president of Egypt, as its representative.
Following the prayer in the Moscow Cathedral Mosque, during his visit in February 2010, Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal admitted that in the Council of Muftis of Russia it felt like home. While it probably pleased the Russian leaders, in reality these words should have alerted them.