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It took a worldwide outcry to spare ‘Qatif girl’ and others. We have to keep squawking.

Once a conclusion is determined in advance by faith, subsequent ‘argument’ is mere rationalization.

‘What one western culture deems a gross violation is not so in another culture.’

It’s no good waiting until after the revolution.

‘This book runs the full gamut from the mediocre to the ludicrous to the merely bad.’

Romanticism created fertile soil for the idea that the mind could expunge a trauma from consciousness.

Christians not allowed to use the word.

People are upset.

‘She was a liberal force, a hope for a Pakistan overrun by militancy. Now there is a great vacuum.’

Keep religion out of politics and out of the mouths of politicians.

In many countries what happened to Hadjo would be called paedophilia and the male attacker would be imprisoned.

‘We in the west have no privileged place from which to judge other cultures and traditions.’

Far-right hate speech bad, hate speech in a mosque – er – um –

Neocons seized the human rights narrative, but that doesn’t mean the left should abandon it.

Student and parents filed a lawsuit alleging history teacher violated student’s constitutional rights.

Postcolonial studies placed a dime-store psychology of empire at the center of every discussion of ‘East meets West.’

Public Opinion demonstrated how much people see what they want to see and hear what they want to hear.

Walzer’s goal in these essays is to argue that liberal values can and should be preserved in leftist politics.

People who pivot until they can ‘understand’ almost anything in order to keep their own presuppositions intact.

Who will take the honour out of these killings? Who will expose the horror from under the hijab?