Inventor of Axis of Evil phrase resigns
The Bush administration is facing a future without one of its most influential backstage figures today after Michael Gerson, the evangelical Christian who coined the phrase “axis of evil” and wrote most of the president’s scripted words, announced his resignation.
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Israel might accept Darfur refugees
Nobel Prize-winning author Elie Wiesel has called on Israel to take in refugees from Darfur. In an interview in the upcoming issue of Haaretz Magazine, Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, says,
“We as Jews are obliged to help not only Jews. I was a refugee and therefore I am in favor of admitting refugees. I thought it [...]
Detox the orthodox
Men have always differed and because religion through the vehicle of revelation has largely been an interpretative enterprise, lots of problems can arise. Early in the history of Islam, caliph Uthman (the third leader after Prophet Muhammad) appointed a commission whose sole task was to compile the Koran into a book. Before this, the main [...]
The price of criticizing Ibn Taymiyya
I wonder if media outlets like the BBC even understand half the contents about Islam that they put on their website. Take this article, for example, in which a Saudi journalist had had the gall to challenge the writings of Ibn Taymiyya. The teachings of the thirteenth century scholar, of course, underpins the whole religious [...]
Don’t kill the speech therapist
I was listening to a BBC reporter interview a Hamas official, and wondered why the first feeling I got was that of incredulity. I must be honest here; for some reason, I always cringe when I hear a Middle Eastern accent on the news. It’s not the accent, really, but the manner in which a [...]
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