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Book Review: Michel Houellebecq - Submission
•�February 22, 2021
•�2,400 Words •�163 Comments
Michel Houellebecq - SUBMISSION (2015) Rating: 4/5 You can access all of my latest book, film, and video game reviews at this link, as well as an ordered, categorized list of all my book reviews and ratings here: Finally read Houellebecq's Submission a few weeks ago, filling in a major and hitherto embarrassing lacuna. He... Read More
Chechens in France, Khabib, and Sinotriumph
•�October 31, 2020
•�700 Words •�157 Comments
So a Chechen refugee who was brutally persecuted by evil Russian occupiers and forced to flee to France recently beheaded a French teacher for triggering him with Mohammed cartoons. Difficult to care much. The French cultural elites, more so even than usual in the West, have long portrayed Chechens as noble freedom fighters against Russian... Read More
ECHR Hates Christian Majority More Than Islamists
•�October 26, 2018
•�400 Words •�41 Comments
So EU citizens can no longer insult the Prophet Mohammed: Obviously that isn't going to be applied to insulting Christian figures anytime soon. To the contrary, those few European countries that still have blasphemy on the books are fast doing away with it. Here is how Talha says things might look like in a (real)... Read More
Thawing Turkestan
•�October 31, 2017
•�400 Words •�27 Comments
FOX: Yes, the likes of Breitbart are going to (justifiably) ask what exactly Sayfullo Saipov was doing on a diversity visa in the United States. But at least there's some kind of visa involved, even though America is on the other side of the world from Central Asia. Russia doesn't even bother with a visa... Read More
Chechen Carthage: Après Kadyrov, Le Déluge
•�September 14, 2017
•�700 Words •�43 Comments
The other day the Chechen social media page vk.com/karfagen was banned. This is not surprising, considering that it was genuinely extremist from head to toe, though it is perhaps telling of the Russian state's priorities that it took longer for Roskomnadzor to catch onto them than it did for it to illegally block the moderate... Read More
The Islamic State Within Russia
•�September 4, 2017
•�1,000 Words •�96 Comments
Anti-Myanmar protest in a nominally Russian region. Source: Елена Афонина / ТАСС / Scanpix / LETA Photogenic female face of resistance to the junta and Nobel Peace Prize winner comes to power as de facto leader of Myanmar. Some of Aung San Suu Kyi's comments about a certain Muslim minority in her country up to... Read More
The Sharia Nexus
•�April 4, 2017
•�400 Words •�4 Comments
To be sure, supporting sharia law doesn't necessarily make you a radical Islamist who hates modern civilization. It is, after all, a cultural as well as a legal tradition. There are four distinct schools of sharia jurisprudence, with a long history of internal debate between them. Although some schools are hardline, some are surprisingly liberal.... Read More
World Map of Muslim Support of the Death Penalty for Apostasy
•�November 26, 2015
•�800 Words •�57 Comments
I made this map based on Razib Khan's calculated figures of the percentage of Muslims around the world who support the death penalty for apostasy, which he compiled using data from the 2013 PEW global survey of Muslim attitudes. Click to enlarge. Warning: Large map! EDIT: Forgot to include figures for Russian Muslims - it... Read More
The Son Also Radicalizes
•�November 22, 2015
•�100 Words •�16 Comments
Here is one of the most popular feel-good #refugeeswelcome cartoons going round the Internets these past few days by the cartoonist John Cole: Of course, one not inconsiderable problem is that a disturbingly big percentage of Syrian refugees - some 13% of them, according to a November 2014 poll by the Arab Center for Research... Read More
Translation: Egor Kholmogorov - A Cruel French Lesson
and •�November 17, 2015
•�1,900 Words •�2 Comments
A Cruel French Lesson, by Egor Kholmogorov appeared in the November 14 issue of Komsomolskaya Pravda, one of the leading Russian dailies. It outlines what is pretty much the standard right-wing conservative Russian position on the #ParisAttacks. Some context: After the terrorist strikes, many outspoken Russian liberals rushed to wrap their digital selves in the... Read More
Too Many Europeans Choose the Strong Horse
•�September 16, 2015
•�1,500 Words •�21 Comments
Blonde Danish teenager, 15, murdered her mother with a kitchen knife after watching ISIS videos of the beheading of British hostages online. Afterwards she and her radical Muslim boyfriend Bakhtiar Mohammed Abdulla, 29, took a long-bladed kitchen knife and stabbed her mother Tina Römer Holtegaard at least 20 times at the home they shared in... Read More
Yemen, Ukraine, and "Legitimacy"
•�March 28, 2015
•�900 Words •�17 Comments
It has the world's highest number of guns per unit of GDP, a population fast outgrowing the land's carrying capacity, is riven by ethnic and religious divisions, and its cities look something like the Counter-Strike map de_dust. Otherwise, I don't know much about Yemen. So I will not wax knowledgeable about it except insofar as... Read More
Je M'en Fous de Charlie Hebdo
•�January 19, 2015
•�3,300 Words •�26 Comments
A couple of Islamist terrorists, the brothers Kouachi, murdered a bunch of cartoonists. Another terrorist, Coulibaly, went on a rampage. All three ended up taking hostages. Counter-terrorists win! Within minutes, everyone had become an expert on Charlie Hebdo's work, and the typical and inevitably dreary debate began. Some said Charlie's cartoons were clearly, stridently Islamophobic,... Read More
A Game of Homs
•�September 6, 2013
•�1,100 Words •�4 Comments
What striking about Syria is how so many people insist on speaking about it in profoundly moralistic, Manichaean terms. This is complete nonsense, given that its civil war isn't a showdown between democracy and dictatorship, but an ethnic and religious conflict. Here's a more realistic guide: The rhetoric: He kills his own people! He is... Read More
A Conversation with Weiss
•�September 4, 2013
•�1,700 Words •�6 Comments
As far as I understand, Michael D. Weiss is one of those neocons who loves Guantanamo but has a special soft spot in his heart for those Muslims who happen to be fighting Russia or some other state that the US doesn't like much. When he isn't chumming it up with his jihadist pals in... Read More
The Tsarnaev Brothers
•�April 19, 2013
•�500 Words •�8 Comments
Make of this what you will. (1) The older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, never adjusted to life in the US. "I don't have a single American friend," he said. His younger brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, had an understanding of US teen hood / SWPL culture. He was a 9/11 "truther." That's from the Twitter account. That said,... Read More
Antisocial Punishment: Why China Will Defeat Corruption, But Russia and the Arabs Won't
•�February 15, 2013
•�1,400 Words •�7 Comments
One of the books I've been reading lately is Steven Pinker's massive door-stopper The Better Angels of Our Nature. Incidentally, I found it a very interesting read with tons of cool factoids, although it could have done with a third of its text and a tiny fraction of its liberal sanctimonious. But that's for the... Read More
A Chess Game to the Death
•�January 29, 2013
•�700 Words •�4 Comments
I am back to writing for the US-Russia.org Expert Discussion Panel, which since my hiatus has found an additional home at Voice of Russia. The latest topic was on whether Russia, China, and the West could find a common approach to the challenges of the Arab Spring. My response is pessimistic, as in my view... Read More
The Liberal - Islamist Alliance
•�October 10, 2012
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Western liberals, their puppets, and the Arab Spring in a nutshell (and I do mean nut).
On Libya: I Told You So
•�September 13, 2012
•�500 Words •�21 Comments
And the protestations of demented democratists be damned. [tweet And even apart from all the HBD stuff, here is the most succinct summary of why democracy is never going to flourish in the Arab world for the foreseeable future. Libya isn't among the countries above, but it is conservative even by Arab standards. Benghazi contributed... Read More
Feminism and Obesity Are Self-Reinforcing
•�August 22, 2012
•�600 Words •�5 Comments
The commentator fcomp writes: That is exactly right. You see this in EE. Beauty is so common that it's much less valued than in America. Basic market forces at work. Feminists go on about the importance of "inner beauty", but ironically, the social trends that are in their own interests to encourage achieve the exact... Read More
Egyptian Progress
•�July 3, 2012
•�100 Words •�39 Comments
The woman on the right is the Egyptian First Lady in 1930. The woman on the left is Mrs. Mursi, First Lady in 2012. I do not know if there is any better illustration of the collapse in aesthetics, culture, etc. when Islamic radicals seize power thanks to their liberal, internationalist, and socialist enablers. Truly,... Read More
The Collapse of Britain In A Few Headlines
•�May 30, 2012
•�200 Words •�15 Comments
Here's a sampling of recent headlines from the country that loves to lecture others on freedom of speech and rule of law. Racist Tube rant woman Jacqueline Woodhouse jailed: A London Underground passenger has been jailed for 21 weeks after she admitted hurling racist abuse at fellow passengers. - BBC Girl gang who kicked woman... Read More
The Approach of the New Persian Empire
•�June 18, 2009
•�2,800 Words •�9 Comments
With the recent election of the controversial (to put it mildly) Ahmadinejad to the Iranian Presidency, it is time to look at what this portends for the future of Iran and the Middle East region in general. The first question we need to ask is whether Ahmadinejad's victory was free and fair. Stratfor believes it... Read More
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Anatoly Karlin
About Anatoly Karlin

I am a blogger, thinker, and businessman in the SF Bay Area. I’m originally from Russia, spent many years in Britain, and studied at U.C. Berkeley.

One of my tenets is that ideologies tend to suck. As such, I hesitate about attaching labels to myself. That said, if it’s really necessary, I suppose “liberal-conservative neoreactionary” would be close enough.

Though I consider myself part of the Orthodox Church, my philosophy and spiritual views are more influenced by digital physics, Gnosticism, and Russian cosmism than anything specifically Judeo-Christian.