Ten years ago, in a late-night bar, I got into a heated argument with a Libyan Muslim — let’s call him Tariq — about Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses. Did Rushdie [...]
Taliban Behead 17 People at Party
What is it with medieval maniacs beheading people? Here we are again, with Taliban lunatics cutting the heads off people for attending a party. What’s that about? What is wrong [...]
Court Outlaws Religious Genital Mutilation of Children
How do you feel about religious-based genital mutilation of children? Horrified, I imagine. The chances are that you recoil at the very notion, and yet such mutilation is legal in [...]
Islamic Vanguards
There are parodies, there are wind-ups, and then there are acts of lampoonery so extreme that you have to applaud them for their sheer brass balls. I know this. [...]
2011 Round-Up
What a huge amount of stuff has happened this year
Obama Declares End to Iraq Invasion
Words are so dangerous. If you fought the German invasion of France back in the 1940s, people would say you were a member of the Resistance, but if you fought [...]
NATO Overthrows Gadaffi But Raises Human-Rights Questions
“It’s great to be in Libya, free Libya” said Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen as he declared the end of NATO’s air campaign in Europe, ‘the most successful operation’ in [...]
Sharia Law in Libya
Islamic law has just been anounced in Libya. Nice one, NATO. Well done. We can look forward to the beheadings.
TalkTalk WalkWalk
Is there any such thing as a corporate citizen, or is profit the only legitimate motivation for any company operating in Ireland? If people arrange their lives, move into the [...]
9-11 Anniversary — Fire and Certainty
Ten years ago, New York’s World Trade Center was destroyed by a combination of fire and certainty. Its destruction ignited fires all over the world, even more certainty, and many [...]