Guilty as charged
After 9-11, people scrambled about for reasons and scapegoats. It was perhaps inevitable that Islam, the religion of the alleged hijackers, would be brought out and reviled. Islam became the new threat to world order, and evangelicals, hoping to boost waning church attendance, dropped none-too-subtle hints that Muslims belonged firmly to the forces of the [...]
Issac Asimov’s Guide to the Bible
Issac Asimov isn’t a name you would normally associate with genres that lie outside the pale of science fiction (he is the author of such novels as I, Robot and The Bicentennial Man), but his forays into non-fiction are often brilliant and very readable masterpieces.
His Guide to the Bible is no exception. Asimov [...]
Quotations on Islamic Fundamentalism
“Radical Islam is a symptom of the disease of which it pretends to be the cure.” — John Gray (Al Qaeda and What It Means to Be Modern)
“My alignment is with what I perceive as just and fair. If it’s with the Muslims, then I’m with the Muslims, if it’s with the West then I’m with [...]
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