The new intolerance: will we regret pushing Christians out of public life?: A Challenge to the Left Cristina Odone’s headline article in this week’s New Statesman describes how a liberal consensus has taken hold which does not brook dissent: where … Continue reading
Just before last Christmas, the Egyptian Muslim scholar (currently Grand Mufti of Egypt), Ali Gomaa (or Ali Jumu’ah) replied to a question from someone whose mother had left Islam, as to whether he and his brother should spend Christmas with … Continue reading
Christians have no right to refuse to work on Sundays, rules judge - Telegraph This is the latest appeal in the case of Celestine Mba, a former carer for children with learning disabilities in south-west London, who had resigned from … Continue reading
I’ve been pretty astounded at the tone of the response to the Church of England’s General Synod’s decision to reject the appointment of female bishops on Wednesday. The motion had been supported by the incoming and outgoing Archbishops of Canterbury … Continue reading
Recently there were two court cases which further established the secularism of the British state, despite its nominal Christian character: one involved an atheist councillor in Bideford, Devon, who resigned from a council after they refused to end their Christian … Continue reading
Anyone who’s lived in London for a while knows about “charity muggers” - people who approach you in the street to get you to sign up to make direct debit donations to their charity. They are extremely irritating, because they … Continue reading
Someone asked on DeenPort earlier today for advice to give to a female Christian friend who wants to do an experiment by wearing niqaab, the face-covering worn by some Muslim women, for a day. My advice was very simply “don’t … Continue reading
What has Britain come to when it takes a Muslim like me to defend Christianity? | Mail Online This article appeared in today’s Daily Mail, and is meant to be in defence of Shirley Chaplin, a nurse in Devon who … Continue reading
Earlier today I read an opinion piece in the Guardian by Martin Kimani, “an associate fellow at the Conflict, Security and Development Group at King’s College London” currently writing a book about the role of the Catholic church in the … Continue reading
The Guardian today had this feature on descendants of Nazis, including a shirt-tail relative of Adolf Hitler, who became Jews, and in one case a rabbi, supposedly to cleanse themselves of the sins of their fathers. Naturally, this aspect of … Continue reading
As you can see, I have not blogged much this week, mainly out of being tired after getting up in the morning to do various driving jobs. However, it’s Sunday and I’m well and truly recovered, so I’ve decided to … Continue reading
Ministry of Truth » Silver Bling Thing Until I read the above blog article, I was planning to write an entry about how I supported Lydia Playfoot’s campaign to be able to wear a silver ring to school, as part … Continue reading
Abdal-Hakim Murad - The Churches and the Bosnian war This is something br. Mas’ud Khan posted to his website a couple of weeks ago, which I only just got round to looking at for the first time in a while. … Continue reading
The Guardian today has a long article, entitled simply Faith, about religion and the heated debates it has recently provoked in the UK. Discussed are the usual matters of faith schooling, creationism and the anger provoked by the likes of … Continue reading
Having seen Channel 4’s documentary Undercover Mosque, which was shown earlier this evening (see earlier entry), I am now more reassured regarding the material quoted from the preachers they showed; however, the programme-makers repeatedly interspersed the ugly material emanating from … Continue reading
Last night, as previously mentioned, City Circle held a debate between Alice Kneen of Magdalen College, Cambridge, proposing the motion that Islam was incompatible with liberalism, and Dr Richard Stone of the Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia, opposing. I got there about 15 minutes late, which was probably more than halfway through Ms Kneen’s speech. She was predictably naming all the things about Islam which in her view made Islam incompatible with liberalism (the execution of apostates, etc.).
Continue readingAt the time of writing, Comment is Free and all its articles are down. Sarah Crown on Comment is Free posted yesterday a write-up of a speech at the Hay Festival by Steve Jones, professor of biology at the University … Continue reading