FROM the Telegraph: The Deputy Prime Minister [Nick Clegg] paid tribute for [sic] Muslim groups for responding to the brutal murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich on Wednesday with a call for “unity and calm”. Mr Clegg said: “Over the last few days London has shown itself at its best: an unbreakable city [...]

  BILL R. writes: I could not ask for better confirmation than this about who does and doesn’t condemn these acts or call them a “betrayal” of Islam. An Islamic cleric who taught Michael Adebolajo, the Woolwich attacker, and was banished from Britain in 2005 has praised him in an interview for “standing firm, courageous, [...]

  THE leadership of the Boy Scouts of America decided today to admit openly homosexual scouts, bringing an end to the organization as a preserve of youthful masculinity. The decision by a majority vote among 1,400 scout leaders was not unexpected. The Scouts had lost major corporate sponsors and received relentless bad press. The Merck [...]

  THE Woolwich jihadist, Michael Adebolajo, 28, became a serious Muslim when he was 15 years old, reports The Daily Mail. He is the son of Nigerian immigrants and, for thirteen years, he evinced all the makings of a future jihadist, reportedly alarming his family and friends. He became a self-appointed soldier for Islam and finally [...]

  KIDIST P. ASRAT has an excellent post at Reclaiming Beauty on Anu Bhagwati, the feminist activist and former Marine who is in the news campaigning against the misogyny of the American military. The strange spectacle of a daughter of Indian immigrants lecturing the nation about the wholesale evil of historic military protocols has what is in [...]

  A translation of the suicide note of Dominique Venner, a French intellectual who opposed liberalism, can be found at Occam’s Razor. Venner shot himself before the altar of Notre Dame yesterday. At Chronicles, Srdja Trifkovic gives an account of the French man’s life in Dominique Venner, a French Samurai.