Additionally, if one considers the small number of Muslims who initially spread Islam from Spain and Morocco in the West to India and China in the East, one would realise that they were far too few to force people to become converts of a religion against their will. Additionally, the great empire and civilisation established [...]
Clearly, the implication is that in the sad, backward country of Iraq, the gender equality Americans enjoy is simply unfathomable. The one-dimensional picture paints Iraq as the distant source of Ameera’s terrible past — and nothing more. When asked, “What was your life in Iraq like?” — a question that couldn’t be more vague — [...]
April 11, 2008 – 12:08 pm
I must confess I have never quite understood the logic of those like Ms Ruoff who argue that because many Muslim majority countries do not allow the same freedom of religion to people from different faiths that we do in the UK, that we should in turn restrict freedoms for Muslims here until they change. [...]
In cities all over Britain there reside devout, law abiding, peaceful and (gasp!) integrated Muslims who just happen to have large beards and dark skin. But next time some bigot wants to indulge in a spot of “Paki bashing” who do you think they are going to pick on, the smartly dressed engineering student who [...]
Surely we want to know the manifold wrongs that lead to further wrongs. Perhaps not, if we’re set in our ways and at home with our ignorance, but Islamophobia is where many of our future troubles might be seen to begin. We ignore it, and our part in it, at the peril of everything we [...]
The miniscule number of Political Correctness Gone Mad stories that turn out to have a grain of truth in them are almost all influenced by this sort of reporting too. A while ago, a children’s book about pigs wasn’t shortlisted for an award, in part because Muslims wouldn’t like stories about pigs. Of course, that’s [...]
“All Muslims may not be terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims.” This comment , frequently heard after the Mumbai bomb blasts implies that terrorism is a Muslim specialty, if not a monopoly. The facts are very different. First, there is nothing new about terrorism. In 1881, anarchists killed the Russian Tsar Alexander II and 21 [...]
According to the article, the “enduring significance” of the hijab is striking. Really? Is it any more “enduring” than the significance of Jesus or the Holy Trinity, the Yarmulke, or karma in Hinduism? Simply put, people will always carry out parts or all of what their religious beliefs dictate. Other people may feel threatened by [...]
