Tag Archives: Fundamentalism

Nutabee

Posted on May 11, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

If Mike Huckabee decides to run again, I’ll again be waiting excitedly to see if he releases the texts of some or all of the sermons he gave in his earlier years. In the meantime, (via Mother Jones), there’s this: … Continue reading →

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This Seems Vaguely Familiar

Posted on May 10, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

Via the The New York Jewish week: [A]n Ultra-Orthodox Hasidic Jewish newspaper, Der Tzitung, has determined that the photo of top U.S. leaders receiving an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden was too scandalous. What was so offensive … Continue reading →

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“Moderate” Muslims: Part of the Problem?

Posted on May 7, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted over at the Corner: While President Obama’s comment that bin Laden was “not a Muslim leader” may have made good sense as propaganda, as a statement of fact it was nonsense. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Irshad Manji … Continue reading →

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First Amendment Burned in Michigan?

Posted on April 23, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted on the Corner: On the face of it, the First Amendment does not seem to be in terribly good shape in Dearborn, Michigan: DEARBORN, Mich., April 23 (UPI) — A constitutional law professor says a trial and the brief … Continue reading →

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Great Dreyfus’s Ghost!

Posted on April 23, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

Poor old “Piss Christ” has been in the wars again. The Guardian reports: When New York artist Andres Serrano plunged a plastic crucifix into a glass of his own urine and photographed it in 1987 under the title Piss Christ, … Continue reading →

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Theocrats at Play

Posted on April 16, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

Via Religion Dispatches On November 2, 2009, five Catholic activists — one nun, two priests, and two laypeople, all age sixty or above — cut through a series of chain link and barbed wire fences surrounding Naval Base Kitsap in … Continue reading →

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Arabian Nightmare?

Posted on March 13, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-Posted on the Corner: It’s a week or two old now, but the warning that runs through this article from the London Spectator is still worth pondering: Here’s an extract: As a hint of what might be in store for … Continue reading →

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Against Evolution

Posted on March 6, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

Via the Independent: A prominent British imam has been forced to retract his claims that Islam is compatible with Darwin’s theory of evolution after receiving death threats from fundamentalists. Dr Usama Hasan, a physics lecturer at Middlesex University and a … Continue reading →

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Tunisia: Some Portents

Posted on February 19, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted over at the Corner: This demonstration in Tunis (report from AFP; extract follows) obviously reflects growing unease: TUNIS — Hundreds of Tunisians demonstrated Saturday for a secular state following the murder of a Polish priest, verbal attacks on Jews … Continue reading →

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Tolerance, Lost

Posted on February 9, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted over at the Corner. As so often, ‘blasphemy’ is the excuse. Via AFP: A Muslim mob burned churches and clashed with police in Indonesia on Tuesday as they demanded the death penalty for a Christian man convicted of blaspheming … Continue reading →

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