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<p>Muslims not trying to fit with society, says Amis MUSLIMS are not doing enough to engage with Britain’s otherwise thriving multicultural society, Martin Amis has said... . “It looks like a multicultural society that’s working apart from a few miserable bastards.”</p> <p>Amis condemns Muslim extremists as 'miserable bastards'</p>

Metabolizing Stalin's Savagery — and His Followers' Moral Blindness Martin Amis Asks Why Believers Took So Long To Admit the Truth Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million By Martin Amis Talk Miramax, 306 pages, $24.95. By LEONARD KRIEGEL A friend laughed as he told me the following story: At a 50th reunion of the Class of 1952 of one of New York's municipal colleges, a man sings "Los Quatros Generales," the Spanish Loyalist song known to everyone on the left during the 1950s. He sings a few verses, stops, then says, "I have followed the communists all my...

Just finished Martin Amis' Koba the Dread- Laughter and the Twenty Million. This book is a stunning account of Soviet terror, and a rebuke to Western soi-disant "progressives" who excused, or refused to acknowledge, the mind-boggling savagery of the Soviet regime. Amis contrasts the horror and hostility we hold for Hitler, facism, and the holocaust, with the equivocation and fear of being labled a "red-baiter" that attends any hostility toward the Soviet Union or Communism. Below, please find the first words of the book: "Here is the second sentence of Robert Conquest's The harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivazation and the...

As we grapple with the problems and perils of the 21st century, the great debates of the 20th have not gone away. Some of the most contentious questions have to do with the history of Communism, whose unholy ghost continues to haunt us more than a decade after the demise of the Soviet Union. Was Communism as evil as Nazism? Did the Western left collude in its evil? These issues are powerfully confronted by the British novelist Martin Amis in his new book Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million. Koba was a nickname for Stalin, and the...