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Michael Nazir-Ali and ‘Christian’ values from magistra 531 days old

[ ... ] to Islam, which is frankly ludicrous. If fiercely held ideology can always defeat a less committed and more apathetic majority, why isn’t ...

The problem of non-believers from magistra 1127 days old

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). ...

Ban the Bonnet from magistra 1132 days old

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 ...

The Holy Father intends to supply a subsequent version of the text... from magistra 1153 days old

[ ... ] to Islam are actually somewhat peripheral to the main argument. The key quote from the Emperor Manuel II Paleologus for Benedict is ‘not ...

Offensive cartoons from magistra 1210 days old

[ ... ] 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 ...

Europe’s Muslims (2): a Muslim Reformation? from magistra 1278 days old

[ ... ] how Islam faces modernity and other cultures. Ramadan is particularly impressive because he (and some of the study groups he helps arrange) are ...

Europe’s Muslims (1): the new Eurabia? from magistra 1282 days old

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 ...

Islamophobia 2 from magistra 1337 days old

[ ... ] for Islam. William Chester Jordan, Europe in the High Middle Ages (2001) argues that it started with nineteenth or twentieth century liberal or ...

Islamophobia 1 from magistra 1341 days old

[ ... ] 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 ...

Reinhold Niebuhr and the ‘War against Terrorism’ from magistra 1369 days old

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 ...