Tag Archives: Islam

Western vs. Moderate Muslims

Posted on May 3, 2011 by David Hume

Since 9/11 the term “moderate Muslim” has been a catchall for Muslims-who-aren’t-bad in the everyday parlance of the USA. But the term is only marginally useful. First, there is a huge range in the term “moderate Muslim”. Some non-violent moderate … 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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Veena Malik

Posted on March 26, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted over at the Corner: Even if you are going to watch nothing else over the Internet today, make sure you check out a clip of actress Veena Malik taking on some snake of a mullah on Pakistani television. You … Continue reading →

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Men, not gods

Posted on March 25, 2011 by David Hume

The New York Times Magazine has a long profile up of Yasir Qadhi, a religiously conservative American Muslim cleric. It is long and worth reading in and of itself, but I want to focus on one section: American Muslims, Qadhi … Continue reading →

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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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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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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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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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On The Run

Posted on March 6, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted over at the Corner. Writing in the Guardian Nick Cohen puts the terrible killings in Pakistan into wider context: One Pakistani journalist I spoke to described his fellow liberals as members of a persecuted minority, who now knew that … Continue reading →

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