Hirsi Ali was born in Mogadishu, Somalia, and made it ultimately to the US after a route that included time in Saudi Arabia and Ethiopia and Kenya and then the Netherlands, where she became a member of their House of Representatives ( Read more... )

In several conversations, I've seen a very common effect, almost an instinctive reaction: When you put forward the proposition that "Jihadism is a serious problem," the response will often ( Read more... )

From a different conversation; someone wrote: I think there's a distinction to be made between religion and fundamentalism. Fundies, of whatever persuasion, are certainly dangerous.I try to be careful with the term "fundamentalism". While I am a lifelong atheist, my understanding of "fundamentalism" as it is used today is "belief in the literal ( Read more... )