I came across this page in my random surfing yesterday and it got me to thinking. The page is maintained by a born-again Presbyterian who looks to have a slightly left-leaning political view judging from a glance around his site (Thanks to Riker from Prose Justice for pointing this out to me, I’d originally identified […]

I suppose it serves me right for saying something even remotely positive about Islam, because the same day in Denmark five muslim men were arrested in a plot to murder one of the twelve Danish cartoonists who drew a caricature of the prophet Mohammed that Islamic extremists deemed offensive, to put it mildly.
And as we […]

There’s a bit of a dust up taking place in Turkey right now.  The moderate Islamic AKP party that came to power in the early 00s in Turkey have successfully pushed through constitutional amendments that lift a ban on wearing head scarves.  The ban was put in place in the mid 90s by the ruling […]