Blog Heap of Links for the day 16 September 2015

FCC Commissioner Ajit Varadaraj Pai said mobile content such as music that some service providers exempt from data limits could be in violation of the agency’s new Internet conduct standard. …

…In the end we either learn the hard lesson of 9/11 – that Islam is antithetical to Western liberal democracy and the values it requires – or we don’t. So far we haven’t. So far we have pretended that radical political Islam is somehow an aberrant offshoot of a housebroken, enlightened Islam. We have ignored the fact that there is no moderate Islam. We ignore men like Turkey’s Erdogan who said,

"The term 'moderate Islam' is ugly and offensive — Islam is Islam." …

Hungary declared a state of emergency, sealed its border with Serbia, and began detaining migrants who attempted to enter the country illegally. The Hungarian government also announced that it would extend its fence to include part of the border with Romania, to help deter migration from that direction.

In other news, the Saudi government has barred the Binladin Group from receiving new state contracts in the wake of last week’s crane collapse at the Grand Mosque in Mecca. The company’s board of directors and top executives have also been ordered not to leave the country until the official investigation of the accident is complete.

…On this day in 1893 approximately 100,000 settlers made a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in what is now Oklahoma.…