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Bristol City Council Wracked with Confusion *

Apr 29th, 2008 | Filed by

There’s cohesion, then there’s homophobic bullying, then there’s community, then there’s inclusive…… Read the rest



Iraqi Women Subjugated Via Murder *

Apr 29th, 2008 | Filed by

‘Honour killings are not actually a crime in the eyes of the government,’ said Houzan Mahmoud.… Read the rest



Bradford ‘Apostates’ Get Death Threats *

Apr 29th, 2008 | Filed by

Sher Azam, of Bradford Council for Mosques, said ‘Islam teaches us respect, tolerance and understanding.’… Read the rest



UCL Statement on Nicholas Kollerstrom *

Apr 29th, 2008 | Filed by

He’s a Fellow in Science and Technology Studies.… Read the rest



UCL Withdraws Fellowship from Holocaust Denier *

Apr 29th, 2008 | Filed by

‘Let us hope the schoolchildren visitors are properly taught about the elegant swimming-pool at Auschwitz…’… Read the rest



Pamela Bone 1940-2008 *

Apr 28th, 2008 | Filed by

She was fearless on matters of politics, human rights, justice and religion… Read the rest



Pamela Bone *

Apr 28th, 2008 | Filed by

Bone wrote recently on what she saw as the betrayal by Western feminists of their Muslim sisters. … Read the rest



Simon Blackburn on Eight Myths *

Apr 28th, 2008 | Filed by

What is usually known as culture is a set of symbols enabling people on the inside to recognise and dislike those on the outside.… Read the rest



Hell for Women in Iraq *

Apr 28th, 2008 | Filed by

Women are harassed if they appear in the streets, educational institutions, or work places.… Read the rest



The Folly of GM-phobia *

Apr 28th, 2008 | Filed by

With the Earth’s population soaring, it will be the poor who go hungry, not the eco-warriors destroying modified crops.… Read the rest



The Democratiya Interviews

Apr 28th, 2008 | By Max Dunbar

The online magazine Democratiya was set up by writers and academics in 2005 as a reaction to the status-quo left consensus that dominated liberal thought from the provincial dinner party to the pages of the British Guardian. From its founding statement:

When over eight million Iraqis voted in democratic elections in January 2005, at polling stations guarded by American and other foreign troops, emerging to dance for joy, their purple fingers aloft, only for Britain’s leading liberal newspaper to sneer that the election was ‘at best irrelevant’ it was clear that something had gone terribly awry. When Iraq’s heroic free trade unionists were called ‘collaborators’ and ‘quislings’, while their torturers and murderers were hailed as a ‘liberation movement’ one

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Saudi Blogger Released From Jail *

Apr 27th, 2008 | Filed by

Fouad al-Farhan had used his website to criticise alleged corruption and call for democratic reforms. … Read the rest



Creeping Islamization in Turkey *

Apr 27th, 2008 | Filed by

‘Most people are more religious these days. They don’t want to eat pork, and they don’t let others produce it either.’… Read the rest



Obscene Desserts on Limits, and Religious Limits *

Apr 27th, 2008 | Filed by

Humans don’t know everything, but does that mean religion can help? No.… Read the rest



Jesus and Mo Have a Good Moment *

Apr 27th, 2008 | Filed by

Good night boys.… Read the rest



Charles Darwin Starts a Blog *

Apr 27th, 2008 | Filed by

‘Well there I was minding my own business in the Cafe of the Natural History Museum…’… Read the rest



Army Major Threatens Atheist Soldier *

Apr 27th, 2008 | Filed by

‘People like you are going against what the founding fathers, who were Christians, wanted for America!’… Read the rest



Oh comrades come rally

Apr 27th, 2008 11:48 am | By

I know it’s old news that Seumas Milne is a buffoon – but all the same…

These are good times to be in the “moderate Muslim” business. If you press the right buttons on integration and “radicalisation” and hold your tongue on western foreign policy, there are rich pickings to be had…Latest in the ring is the “counter-extremism thinktank”, the Quilliam Foundation…The foundation – named after a 19th century British Muslim – is the creature of Husain and a couple of other one-time members of the radical, non-violent Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir. All three are straight out of the cold war defectors’ mould described in Saturday’s Guardian by the playwright David Edgar, trading heavily on their former associations and travelling

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Maajid Nawaz Replies to Ziauddin Sardar *

Apr 26th, 2008 | Filed by

Sardar’s attack on the Quilliam Foundation was ill-informed in a number of ways.… Read the rest



Sue Blackmore on Papal Social Calls *

Apr 26th, 2008 | Filed by

Sorry, we’ll be out that day.… Read the rest