Tag Archives: blasphemy and defamation of religion

#PasCharlie

Posted on January 11, 2015 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted on the Corner: The #JeSuisCharlie message doesn’t appear to be getting through to some. The Global Post: A Swedish member of parliament reported a far-right leader to the police on Friday for alleged incitement to hatred over a comment … Continue reading →

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Will Anything Change?

Posted on January 8, 2015 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted on the Corner. At the Financial Times, Europe editor Tony Barber’s initial response to the atrocity in Paris included this: Charlie Hebdo has a long record of mocking, baiting and needling French Muslims. If the magazine stops just short … Continue reading →

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Charlie Hebdo

Posted on January 8, 2015 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted on the Corner. The revolting terrorist assault on Charlie Hebdo today is designed to intimidate for the future as much as to ‘punish’ for the past. And I suspect that it has, to some degree, been encouraged by opinion … Continue reading →

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God and Guest Speaker at Yale

Posted on September 11, 2014 by Andrew Stuttaford

There’s much more about this over at NRO, but the response of some people at Yale to the invitation extended by the Buckley Program to Ayaan Hirsi Ali is worth noting here too. The Yale Daily News has some of … Continue reading →

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“Nostalgia for the Absolute”

Posted on May 18, 2014 by Andrew Stuttaford

In the course of an article triggered by the bullying of climatologist Lennart Bengtsson, Mark Steyn digs up this extract from a tremendous “imaginary address” by Yale law professor Stephen Carter to America’s Class of 2014, currently so busy, as … Continue reading →

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Spaghetti Monster Monstered

Posted on February 13, 2014 by Andrew Stuttaford

Huffington Post UK: A poster which replaced the image of God from the Sistine Chapel with a picture of the Flying Spaghetti Monster has been removed after with a row with a London University. The South Bank University Atheism society … Continue reading →

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Melancholy, Long, Withdrawing

Posted on January 30, 2014 by Andrew Stuttaford

More on the Maajid Nawaz affair, and specifically, a letter from Britain’s National Secular Society on the next step in Britain’s retreat from the open society: We are writing in response to a package presented by news correspondent Katie Razzall, … Continue reading →

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‘A Modern Bedlam’

Posted on January 26, 2014 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted in the Corner. Writing in the Guardian, Nick Cohen, with more grim news about the state of multiculturalist Britain: Extremists are menacing the career and life of a Liberal Democrat politician and respectable society hardly considers these authentically scandalous … Continue reading →

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Something Rotten…

Posted on December 9, 2013 by Andrew Stuttaford

Nick Cohen, writing in The Spectator: Firoozeh Bazrafkan is frightened of nothing. Five foot tall, 31 years old, and so thin you think a puff of wind could blow her away, she still has the courage to be a truly … Continue reading →

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Teed Off

Posted on October 5, 2013 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted on Ricochet. The Tab reports: [The London School of Economics] has sparked a free speech row after banning atheist students from wearing t-shirts which depicted Jesus and the Prophet Mohammed. Two members of the uni’s atheist society were threatened … Continue reading →

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