Jihad Against the Zoroastrian Yazidis

Click this link for an update from Reuters on the continuing jihad against the Yazidis:
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/08/15/uk-iraq-security-yazidis-killings-idUKKBN0GF1XZ20140815

At the following link The Telegraph newspaper has a pictorial essay by Sam Tarling on the current plight of the Yazidis:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/11030905/Yazidis-Iraq-rituals-Sam-Tarling-Iraqi-Kurdistan-Lalish-Kurdish-Peshmerga-Gwar.html
 

The Salisbury Review

You can find The Salisbury Review by clicking on this link:http://salisburyreview.com/ This blog even gets a mention - "Down under with Daryl" - on the bottom right-hand corner under Recommended. The Autumn 2014 edition (Autumn in the UK, that is) comes out in September.

Pierre Ryckmans (aka Simon Leys): 1935-2014

The title of Ian Baruma's article about the life and work of Pierre Ryckmans in The New York Review of Books is "The Man Who Got it Right". That pretty well says it all: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/aug/15/simon-leys-man-who-got-it-right/

My indebtedness to Pierre Ryckmans/Simon Leys comes at the end of this article I wrote about China's 1979 Democracy Wall for Quadrant magazine in 2012: http://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2012/4/democracy-wall-beijing-1979/

The Kurds vs the Islamic State

President Barzani of the Autonomous Region of Kurdistan: "We have ordered the Peshmerga forces to attack the terrorists..." 

Here is an article by John McTernan, in the Telegraph newspaper, speaking about the Kurds who are standing up to the IS terrorists and protecting Christian and Yazidi refugees:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/11026422/Britain-must-give-the-Kurds-the-tools-to-lead-Iraq-out-of-this-mess.html

The Islamic State vs the Yazidis

Here is a link to an article by Liz Sly and Loveday Morris in the Sydney Morning Herald on current the plight of the Yazidis:
http://www.smh.com.au/world/kurds-open-escape-route-for-some-trapped-yazidis-20140810-102e92.html

And here is a background article by Christine Allison on Yazidism: http://www.cais-soas.com/CAIS/Religions/iranian/yazidis.htm

Here is the link to to Yazdi female politician in Iraq arguing for help to save her people from the Islamic State terrorists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdIEm1s6yhY

Calling All Hamas Apologists! Calling All Hamas Apologists!

Click the following link, Hamas Apologist, and as John Lennon would say, "Take this, brother, may it serve you well":
http://honestreporting.com/idns-08072014-journos-tell-all/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+honestreportingRSS+%28Honest+Reporting%29

Know Thy Enemy

The following article for Al Jazeera, by Richard Falk, Professor of International Law at Princeton, encapsulates the growing alliance between the Western Left and Islamo-fascism. If we turn everything Professor Falk believes on its head we might begin to approach the truth. Hamas is a terrorist outfit that has commandeered Gaza for its own apocalyptic and millennialist purposes. Every death in Gaza during Operation Defensive Shield is its entire responsibility. Gazans (and Israelis) die so Professor Falk can spout the Muslim Brotherhood's propaganda.

Click this link to know the voice of the enemy of civilisation:          
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2014/08/gaza-saudi-egypt-20148295742128666.html