In an interview with The European Conservative, author Simon Webb discusses the modern myopia surrounding the enslavement of white, male (and frequently castrated) Christians by Islamic empires throughout history. “It is taken for granted that white people are always the villains of the piece,” Webb says. “This is a pity, for it precludes a wider discussion of the topic, one which might shed light upon the essential nature of slavery.”
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Writing in Jewish World Review, Frederic Fransen reminds Americans of a key lesson from Revolutionary War-era pamphleteer Thomas Paine’s Common Sense. “The colonies need to declare independence,” Fransen summarizes Paine, “because so long as their goal was seen as reconciliation, foreign governments would consider the Americans as rebels and the conflict an internal affair.” But a unilateral declaration of independence, Fransen notes, instantly converts mere complaints from an aggrieved group into a negotiation between sovereign states.
