I shouldn't be surprised, but I am saddened, that the reaction of someone Jon and I know to the Dayton mosque gassing was to complain that moderate Muslims don't condemn extremist Muslims loudly enough. Putting aside the obvious responses - a moment's Googling will find roughly a bajillion examples of Muslims condemning terrorism, poisoning ( Read more... )

Meanwhile in sunny Camden, Catholics welcome, Muslims not. OK, grit your teeth, folks: "Why is that racist? Why is it discriminatory? It's very simple: people like some things but don't like other things. Some of us like blondes, some of us like brunettes. Some of us like Fords, some of us like Holdens. Why is it xenophobic just because I want to ( Read more... )

Philip Glenister interview. "I get a lot of letters inviting me to nip round and take down their particulars when their husbands are at work. That's very flattering, but I think it is Gene Hunt they find attractive, not me." (I left a comment disputing this, but alas, none have appeared at the site. :-) And a review speculating on Gene's appeal.

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Excuse me while I fail to be at all surprised by this: Canadian Muslim girl not killed over hijab: report

I suppose the motive for the murder won't be clear until the trial - by which time the media are likely to have lost interest.

2005 report from the Pew Global Attitudes Project: Islamic Extremism: Common Concern for Muslim and Western Publics: "Nearly three-quarters of Moroccans and roughly half of those in Pakistan, Turkey and Indonesia see Islamic extremism as a threat to their countries. At the same time, most Muslim publics are expressing less support for terrorism ( Read more... )

I've been having a little break from activism, so it's been a while since I read much feminist thought. Right now I'm interested in the perspectives of Black feminists and Muslim feminists1. There's something very cool about the fact that feminism gets invented repeatedly in different cultures, or different parts of the same culture - it's not just ( Read more... )

My cuz reckons the nasty Muslims outnumber the nice ones, worldwide, by at least a factor of ten. Now I reckon it's more like the other way around - a small minority of noisy extremists, making life miserable for other Muslims and rattling their sabres, so to speak, at the West ( Read more... )

I get very impatient with the constant call for moderate Muslims to decry the words and works of extremist Muslims, when moderate Muslims do that all the time: it's just not as headline-grabbing. And if you didn't happen to hear about it from the news sources you follow, it may as well not have happened. (The same rubbish is said about feminists, ( Read more... )

Dammit, Martin Amis, I only just discovered your writing! Couldn't you have waited a bit longer before disgracing yourself by bashing Muslims?

Got the Christian Democratic Party flier - that's Fred Nile's bunch. "KEEP OUR HERITAGE". Their policies: "zero tolerance" of drugs, no gay marriage, a 10 year moratorium on Islamic immigration. I question the legality of the latter. The party also "believes that environmental issues are important", whatever that may mean. Same old same old ( Read more... )