I just came across a Salon article that may force me to retract, or at least reconsider, a large amount of what I said in my previous post. Short answer: the (state-owned) Saudi media were first to hype up the Koran-roast ( just like they pretty much created the Toon Tantrum*); which prompted Gen. Petraeus to make his comment about danger to US ( Read more... )

From Dispatches from the Culture Wars comes this welcome news of liberal, secularist Muslims publicly standing up to attack the backwardness and undisciplined violence of what has come to be labelled "radical Islam."

Behind this cut is the full text of the "St. Petersburg [FL] Declaration," as copied from the Secular Islam Summit blog (minor ( Read more... )

...oh, and videos of Americans getting killed are okay too.

From Slashdot, via both Secular Blasphemy and Andrew Sullivan:

...the Google property has recently banned the popular atheist commentator Nick Gisburne. [YouTube profile "suspended."] Gisburne had been posting videos with logical arguments against Christian beliefs; but when he turned ( Read more... )