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Author Archives: David Hume
Will November be a Pyrrhic victory?
Matt Yglesias explains his recent shift toward liberaltarianism: It was suggested to me by a number of parties this week that I should give some explicit account of why the blog has turned in what you might call a more … Continue reading
“Wisdom” from Facebook
Here’s something I saw on a Facebook discussion which caught my attention: … The idiots who threatened violence over South Park are no more representative of Islam than the idiot threatening to burn Qur’ans is representative of Christianity. Let’s grant … Continue reading
Enslaved on Hajj
Some readers are generally confused as to why I discount to a large extent the influence of official ideology, text, or received tradition, over the long-term course of a religious society. The main reason is that the exceptions to the … Continue reading
Taking the Western side in religious history
A reader recently asked me about a history of Islam which did not exhibit the strong biases evident in Karen Armstrong’s body of work. I don’t know what to recommend really because I don’t read too many popular works of … Continue reading
It isn’t always about the mean
‘Draw Muhammad’ cartoonist changes name, goes into hiding at FBI’s insistence: Seattle Weekly announced Wednesday that it will no longer run Molly Norris’s artwork. The newspaper is also reporting that legally, there is no more “Molly Norris.” Norris — the … Continue reading
The irrelevancies of the sects
Update: Ignore this post. I was wrong, it looks as if Christine O’Donnell had an evangelical phase, and if my chronology is correct she was an evangelical Protestant Christian when this video was made. She later converted back to Roman … Continue reading
Sacred is a state of mind
In regards to the Koran burning, Randall Parker says: When someone says it sickens them to take some position I figure they are just striking a pose and signaling. Very few non-Muslim people are truly sickened by the idea of … Continue reading
Islam, generalizations, barbarism, and structural conflicts
My friend Aziz Poonawalla left a somewhat irritated comment below as to my attitudes and generalizations about Muslims and Islam. I took notice, because I had a somewhat similar response from a Muslim friend on Facebook to another comment I … Continue reading
The swastika is not offensive, and it is offensive
Hindu swastika causes a storm in Irvine: The swastika – also a feared and hated symbol from Germany’s Nazi Party – has ancient meanings across the globe that pre-date World War II. Derived from the Sanskrit word “svastika,” it can … Continue reading