http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070227/ap_on_re_ca/canada_hijab_conflict_1 Unsurprisingly, the not-terribly-immigrant-friendly province of Quebec is in the midst of a hijab fracas. A Muslim girl playing in a soccer tourney was told by the referee (a fellow Muslim – which makes this case very strange) to take off her head covering or else leave the field. The usual sound and fury over […]
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060916/ap_on_re_eu/pope_muslims_26 It seems that Pope Ratzinger is “extremely upset” that Muslims have been offended by some of his words in a recent speech in Germany. He was hoping they’d be offended by all of them. (Thank you! I’ll be here all week!)
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060915/wl_nm/religion_pope_islam_dc_6 Pope Ratzinger again shows how religion can be a unifying influence based on love and understanding: In his speech at the University of Regensburg, Benedict quoted criticism of Islam and the Prophet Mohammad by 14th century Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaeologus, who wrote that everything Mohammad brought was evil and inhuman, “such as his […]
Polly Toynbee: In the name of God | Politics | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/attackonlondon/comment/story/0,16141,1534014,00.html Another great religion-is-bad article: “Enlightenment values are in peril not because these mad beliefs are really growing but because too many rational people seek to appease and understand unreason. Extreme superstition breeds extreme action. Those who believe they alone know the only way, truth and life will always feel justified in doing anything in […]