Blair ‘prayed to God’ over Iraq Prime Minister Tony Blair has told how he prayed to God when deciding whether or not to send UK troops to Iraq. Mr Blair answered “yes” when asked on ITV1 chat show Parkinson – to be screened on Saturday – if he had sought holy intervention on the issue. […]
Shutting Down Women’s Political Space An excellent piece in this morning’s Guardian from Tabish Khair , English professor at Aarhus University, Denmark She talks about the drowning out of moderate voices, particularly those of women: Between the Danish government and Islamist politicians, between Jyllands-Posten and the mobs in Beirut, between Laban and Khader, the moderate […]
Sense & Sensibilities As I’m sitting here listening to reports on the BBC of the Danish embassy burning in Beirut, I give thanks to non-existent deities for godless atheists like PZ Myers at Pharyngula , who has summed up exactly my feelings on the Danish cartoon imbroglio, so I don’t have to: “There are some […]
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