[ ... ] to Islam, which is frankly ludicrous. If fiercely held ideology can always defeat a less committed and more apathetic majority, why isn’t ... more
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The problem of non-believers
@ 2006-10-12 – 23:07:54
The Muslim veil argument rumbles on, with some good articles in the Guardian (see e.g. David Edgar: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1892543,00.html). … more -
Ban the Bonnet
@ 2006-10-07 – 20:44:18
In the midst of all the newspaper discussions from last week on the peculiar clothing worn by some religions, there is one point that everyone has been … more -
The Holy Father intends to supply a subsequent version of the text...
@ 2006-09-16 – 22:28:40
[ ... ] to Islam are actually somewhat peripheral to the main argument. The key quote from the Emperor Manuel II Paleologus for Benedict is ‘not ... more -
Offensive cartoons
@ 2006-07-21 – 21:40:42
[ ... ] is that Islam as a whole is intrinsically murderous. Thus the cartoons are equal in their impact or the Islamic one is more offensive (as well as ... more -
Europe’s Muslims (2): a Muslim Reformation?
@ 2006-05-14 – 23:00:46
[ ... ] how Islam faces modernity and other cultures. Ramadan is particularly impressive because he (and some of the study groups he helps arrange) are ... more -
Europe’s Muslims (1): the new Eurabia?
@ 2006-05-10 – 07:47:39
There seem to be a spate of articles by right-wingers and Islamophobes at the moment (mainly American, but including the Italian Orin Falucci) going … more -
Islamophobia 2
@ 2006-03-16 – 08:26:43
[ ... ] for Islam. William Chester Jordan, Europe in the High Middle Ages (2001) argues that it started with nineteenth or twentieth century liberal or ... more -
Islamophobia 1
@ 2006-03-12 – 09:45:54
[ ... ] hate Islam enough. (I can think of some British ones who do, but that’s a different matter). Because Phyllis Chester really hates Islam. Indeed ... more -
Reinhold Niebuhr and the ‘War against Terrorism’
@ 2006-02-12 – 09:54:23
One of the surprising things looking now at Reinhold Niebuhr’s ‘The Irony of American History’ is how few mentions there are of Islam. To him the ‘Oriental … more
