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By Khaled Salih Zohran Mamdani: “You are my human shield!” NYT (Check out my article of his message here.) A Firefighter’s Warning If ever a candidate announced his ambitions with the candour of an arsonist showing you the matchbook, it is Zohran Mamdani, “We came here to remake this
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By Khaled Salih Zohran Mamdani: “You are my human shield!” NYT The photograph could have been composed by a Renaissance painter of moral allegories. A man in a dark suit stands at a clear podium, his expression a studied mixture of gravity and resolve. Behind him, a dozen faces form
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How Moral Certainty Replaces the Life of the Mind
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By Khaled Salih “Behind every smile lies the will to spread Sharia.” —Bruno Guillot, once known as Soulayman Abou Issa, a Belgian convert and Salafist imam Here is my guiding principle for this text: “Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by
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By Khaled Salih Long Game Hug: US President Donald Trump talks with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset, Oct. 13, 2025.(AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool), source: Times of Israel In the grand theatre of geopolitics, the script is typically written by finite players—statesmen who measure
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By Khaled Salih Marco Rubio and Benjamin Netanyahu at the press conference in Israel The True Trajectory President Donald Trump’s unconventional approach to diplomacy frequently generates a storm of public and media confusion, a phenomenon best described as “noise.” His penchant for performative statecraft—whether through off-the-cuff
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By Khaled Salih “The choice with which humankind is faced in every age is between the idea of power and the power of ideas.” — Jonathan Sacks I was at a small clinic with my elder son, waiting for a doctor to treat an ordinary infection. The waiting room was crowded
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By Khaled Salih This story might be difficult for some people to read. Two Testaments to Human Endurance Survivor memoirs hold a profound and unsettling place in the landscape of human literature. They are not merely records of suffering but acts of profound moral courage, forcing readers to confront the
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By Khaled Salih This text might be difficult for some people to read. Two Testaments to Human Endurance Survivor memoirs hold a profound and unsettling place in the landscape of human literature. They are not merely records of suffering but acts of profound moral courage, forcing readers to confront the
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By Khaled Salih Summary: When ideology masquerades as scholarship, truth becomes its first casualty – and a nation’s self-defence its second. In The Islamist Labeling of Muslim CSOs, Anna Ardin and Mattias Irving don the cloaks of academia to perform a grand inversion: they transform Sweden’s legitimate inquiry
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By Khaled Salih TRIGGERnometry Let me start by stealing and modifying a paragraph from Hussein Aboubakr Mansour: I would rather have you read this text suspiciously than credulously. I would rather you approach the arguments with rolled sleeves than with blind trust. For when you know I exaggerate, you do
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By Khaled Salih TRIGGERnometry Let me start by stealing and modifying a paragraph from Hussein Aboubakr Mansour: I would rather have you read this text suspiciously than credulously. I would rather you approach the arguments with rolled sleeves than with blind trust. For when you know I exaggerate, you do