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Category Archives: Religion
First Amendment Watch
Cross-posted in the Corner: Writing in USA Today, Anthea Butler, an associate professor of religious studies at the University of Pennsylvania, reveals that she hasn’t quite got to grips with this whole First Amendment thing: [W] hy did I tweet … Continue reading
Re: ‘Free Speech is Free Speech is Free Speech’
Cross-posted on the Corner: Reason’s Jesse Walker adds a quick footnote to Matt Welch’s earlier comments: A quick footnote to Matt’s excellent post about the Cairo embassy’s comments on “religious incitement”: In addition to being wrongheaded, these little announcements are … Continue reading
‘Free Speech Is Free Speech Is Free Speech’
Cross-posted on the Corner: Back at the time of the Mohammed cartoon troubles, an article published in the embattled Jyllands-Posten included this phrase: “Ytringsfrihed er ytringsfrihed er ytringsfrihed. Der er intet men.” The translation? “Free speech is free speech is … Continue reading
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Tagged blasphemy and defamation of religion, Egypt, Islam, Islamic fundamentalism, Libya
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Barbarism
The New York Times reports: DAKAR, Senegal — Radical Islamists who control northern Mali extended their campaign of enforcing harsh Shariah law on Monday, amputating the hands and feet of four young men they accused of robbery in the main … Continue reading
Humiliated in Cairo
As, on 9/11, an Egyptian mob storm the US Embassy on 9/11 in Cairo “offended” by a film about Islam made in America, America’s diplomats cringe and kowtow, and jettison the principle of free speech in favor of religious privilege: … Continue reading
Posted in Religion
Tagged blasphemy and defamation of religion, Egypt, Free Speech, Islam, Islamic fundamentalism
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Untold Story
Cross-posted on the Corner: Today of all days, it is disheartening to read this: A screening of a controversial documentary on the history of Islam has been cancelled on security advice after its presenter was threatened. Historian Tom Holland’s Channel … Continue reading
Posted in politics, Religion
Tagged blasphemy and defamation of religion, Islam, Islamic fundamentalism
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Ghana, 2012
Via The Independent: Around 700 women and 800 children live in Gambaga camp, and in five other witch camps across northern Ghana, where they are virtually cut off from the outside world. Housed in flimsy mud huts, without enough food, … Continue reading
Same Script, Different Stage (Ctd.)
Cross-posted on the Corner: Bamiyan, Timbuktu, and now Tripoli. Al-Jazeera reports: Attackers in Libya have bulldozed a mosque containing Sufi Muslim graves in the centre of Tripoli, a day after Sufi shrines in the city of Zlitan were wrecked and … Continue reading
Posted in politics, Religion
Tagged Fundamentalism, Islamic fundamentalism, Libya
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Hikikomori, Literally
Via the Daily Telegraph: Seventy members of an Islamist sect who have been living in an underground bunker without heat or sunlight for nearly a decade have been discovered living on the outskirts of the city of Kazan in Russia. … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Religion
Tagged Cults, Fayzrahman Satarov, Islamic fundamentalism, Russia
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Hikikomori, Again
Via the Washington Post: JERUSALEM — It’s the latest prescription for extreme ultra-Orthodox Jewish men who shun contact with the opposite sex: Glasses that blur their vision, so they don’t have to see women they consider to be immodestly dressed. … Continue reading