Tag Archives: Islam

A Storm in a Soup Can?

Posted on October 10, 2010 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted over at the Corner: TPM Muckraker has a rising-tide-of-intolerance type story over on its site. The topic? Soup. Earlier this year, Campbell Canada introduced a line of halal-certified soups. The 15 soups comply with Islamic dietary regulations which, much … Continue reading →

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Another Brick in the Wall

Posted on October 3, 2010 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted over at the Corner: At first glance, there is less to this Sunday Telegraph story than meets the eye: Hundreds of girls are bring forced by British schools to wear the Islamic veil in a move which has been … Continue reading →

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Blasphemy Laws by the Back Door

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Andrew Stuttaford

To describe public burnings of the Koran as uncivil behavior is an understatement, but this piece of news doesn’t say much for the state of free speech in Britain: Six people have been arrested on suspicion of inciting racial hatred … Continue reading →

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“Wisdom” from Facebook

Posted on September 24, 2010 by David Hume

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 →

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It isn’t always about the mean

Posted on September 16, 2010 by David Hume

‘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 →

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Response to Razib

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Ibn Sina

Preface by Razib: My friend Aziz Poonawalla responded to my previous post with a long missive, which you can read below. To the left is a photo of the both of us in late 2004 when I visited him in … Continue reading →

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Islam, generalizations, barbarism, and structural conflicts

Posted on September 13, 2010 by David Hume

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 →

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A misunderstanding of civility

Posted on September 8, 2010 by David Hume

At The New Republic a writer is confused that a professor of Islamic Studies in Delaware would say this: Along with the idea of God and prophets, the Quran is the thing that Muslims hold the dearest. My children have … Continue reading →

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Judge them by their actions

Posted on August 30, 2010 by David Hume

Recently on bloggingheads.tv Michael Brendan Dougherty, a professing Catholic, suggested that anti-Catholic movements in 19th century America had a point. In this Dougherty seems to be aligning with Ross Douthat’s implication, that American reaction drove American Catholicism to counter-reaction, and … Continue reading →

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Why Obama is likely to be privately irreligious

Posted on August 21, 2010 by David Hume

The heritability of religiosity is modest in the American environment. In some environments, such as Saudi Arabia, a normal range in variation in religiosity obviously can not express itself. But under more relaxed conditions it seems that around half of … Continue reading →

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