Author Archives: David Hume

Liberal de facto apologia for Islam

Posted on March 16, 2011 by David Hume

In the comments to my post “The double standard” many liberals objected to my assertion that much of the Left engages in a situational criticism of religion, whereby conservative Christians bear the full front of the secular critique, where Muslims … Continue reading →

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Literal reductiveness, angelic and demonic

Posted on March 11, 2011 by David Hume

Sean, our resident Islam expert who advised me to go meet those Muslims whom I’ve never met, said something which caught my attention below: “What Islam is as a realized matter” is also a lot broader than “they support terrorists … Continue reading →

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The double standard

Posted on March 10, 2011 by David Hume

A few years ago Markos Moulitas wrote a book, American Taliban: How War, Sex, Sin, and Power Bind Jihadists and the Radical Right. This is in a long tradition of demonization of American Christian conservatives by the Left. All’s fair … Continue reading →

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Muslim denial about what being Muslim is about

Posted on March 2, 2011 by David Hume

A big issue that we have in the “public discourse” today is that we allow Muslims to talk about their religion in a way that we (“we” here meaning the mainstream) would not tolerate from white evangelical Christians (though we … Continue reading →

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The law of Arab averages

Posted on March 1, 2011 by David Hume

We’ve seen the secular face of the revolutions so far (though if the Bahrain popular revolt succeeds I can’t see how it wouldn’t be more religiously inflected), but how long was this going to last? Yemen, the most backward of … Continue reading →

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Queens, consorts, etc.

Posted on March 1, 2011 by David Hume

A recent criticism in The Atlantic of a glowing portrait in Vogue of the wife of the dictator of Syria made me wonder about something which has sometimes crossed my mind. First, as an aside I have to say that … Continue reading →

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Familiarity in Europe

Posted on February 27, 2011 by David Hume

Swedes Begin to Question Liberal Migration Tenets: But increasingly, Swedes are questioning these policies. Last fall, the far-right party — campaigning largely on an anti-immigration theme — won 6 percent of the vote and, for the first time, enough support … Continue reading →

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Prince & bishop

Posted on February 20, 2011 by David Hume

One of the major back stories about Bahrain is the disjunction between the religious confession of the ruling family, and the populace. The elite and the monarchy are Sunni, while the masses are Shia. This is of a piece with … Continue reading →

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Social conservatism & religious conservatism

Posted on February 19, 2011 by David Hume

The New York Times profiled this website today. Dan Riehl responds: This article is a lot of hogwash and it causes me to wonder if these specific views of Heather Mac Donald and Razib Khan aren’t driven more by a … Continue reading →

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Secular and Islamist can mean very different things

Posted on February 15, 2011 by David Hume

A long post at Discover Blogs where I outline what I perceive to be the fallacies and misrepresentations in the media today about the Egyptian democratic revolution. In particular, I think terms like “secular” and “Islamist” are being used in … Continue reading →

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