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Tao of Defiance
http://www.taoofdefiance.com/
No holds barred news and views, from geopolitics and religion to health and the martial arts. Written from Sydney, Australia.
Following the ancient Taoist method of saying BS to PC.
- Author: Alyosha Popovich
- Listed in: Political Libertarian
- Tags: conservative martial arts australia Islam russia geopolitics
Recent Posts
Grim milestone.
Last weekend saw the TOD's first birthday and, celebrations aside, I figured this was a good time to reflect on the future of this project, ie. whether I will continue working on it and if so in what format. The basic problem I am facing is that I ju...
Southern Thailand insurgency: Increasing brutality and suspected foreign involvement should worry Australia.
South-East Asia security analyst Zachary Abuza has an op-ed piece in today's SMH about the predominantly Indonesian terror group Jemaah Islamiah, prompted by the recent capture of it's amir, Abu Dujana. In the final paragraph he mentions the escalati...
Blogpower Awards - voting ends today!
Today is the last day of voting in the Blogpower Awards, folks, so get in there and get voting. Links directly to the 20 categories below. Voting will end on Wednesday, June 13th, at 19:00, London time. 1 Best Britblog or Column 2 Best North...
WWWW 3.
I have submitted my post, 'Female Genital Mutilation: An Islamic Practice' to the Watcher's Council. Unfortunately I quite possibly missed this week's deadline. As you may or may not already be aware, members of the Watcher's Council hold a vote eve...
The radicalization of Mohammad Sidique Khan, mastermind of 7/7.
Shiv Malik went into the Beeston ghetto in Leeds to do research for a BBC documentary on the lives of the four 7/7 bombers, 3 of whom were from Beeston. What he found was a self-isolated Pakistani community in which a large proportion of the second-g...
