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‘Everybody loves my baby, but my baby don’t love nobody but me.’ From this, it logically follows that ‘I am my baby.’

Which produces the greatest terror, action or inaction?

At some point we will have reached a level at which violence becomes an end in itself and can no longer be stopped.

The bloody attacks here do not reflect primordial hatreds. They reflect the manipulation of identity for political gain.

Proposed restrictions on ‘incitement to religious hatred’ and ‘defamation of religion’ show up around the globe.

The Canadian Islamic Congress has launched two human rights complaints against Maclean’s.

Cheney has wanted to restore the imperial presidency for three decades.

Pakistan’s national identity is based on not being Hindu – a thin reed on which to hang a unified state.

Level of attention, an aspect of conscious awareness, plays an important role in boredom.

Signatories include Philip Pullman, Ricky Gervais, Richard Dawkins, Nick Hytner.

‘Islamic studies must be taken seriously. Politicians, university administrators, faculty and students must say so.’

Scientists don’t, and shouldn’t, jettison a theory as soon as a disconfirming datum comes in.

First we needed to combat the oppression of minority males; then there would be time for luxuries like feminism.

Musharraf Hussain gives withering assessment of training in many of Britain’s 26 Islamic seminaries.

16 of the 25 UK seminaries, producing 80% of graduates, are Deobandi.

She photographed gay men wearing masks of the prophet; her work was removed from the Hague museum.

Vatican calls for ‘perpetual adoration’ of eucharist to atone for sex abuse.

Bunglawala says the government wants Muslim women to act as spies.

The Cairo Declaration definition of human rights differs widely from those of the UDHR.

‘The right to freedom of expression should be exercised with responsibility and may therefore be subject to limitations…’