If any one age could be singled out as the worst in the history of Christendom, it would be the administration of… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
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Just look at Poland, a sort of European perspective this has. So we have an interest in seeing this relationship be a… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
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If you trace the history of Islamist terrorism, you see that its founders were great admirers of European fascism. They read the… — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
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