Islam upholds women’s rights, say the Islamic spokesmen in the West, and it all sounds great. Yet stories like this reinforce the often-reinforced impression that in Islam women are treated essentially as commodities. “Turkey: 12-Year-Old Girl Sold By Father for 4 Cows,” from ANSAmed, n.d. (thanks to Insubria): (ANSAmed) -…
Because McCain isn’t going gently into that good night.
A government ban of 500 election candidates threatens to derail the country’s political progress.
A spate of attacks on Christian churches reveal the dark side of this “moderate” Muslim nation.
Two new books detail the brutalities of daily life in Mao’s worker’s paradise.
All victimization of innocent people is reprehensible. This survey is speaking, rather, about “dislike” of various religions. One may suspect that the widespread “dislike” of Islam comes not from ignorance of it, but from the increasingly common phenomenon of its most devout adherents murdering members of other faiths and justifying…
The Islamic supremacist attempt in Malaysia to prevent Christians from using the word “Allah” for the God of the Bible — as Arabic-speaking Christians have done since pre-Islamic times — has just taken a new twist: for the first time, Islamic scholars are saying that “Allah” is not properly translated…
Law enforcement officials constantly assume that every group is just as likely to commit an act of terror as every other group, and so there is no point in singling out members of any particular group for special scrutiny. That is the kind of thinking that led to this incident,…
