The Economist, Al-Qaeda. How jihad went freelance: “TERRORISTS are a bit like you and me, or so Marc Sageman suggests. It might be comforting to think that angry young Islamists are crazed psychopaths or sex-starved adolescents who have been brainwashed in malign madrassas. But Mr Sageman, a senior fellow at the Philadelphia-based Foreign Policy Research [...]
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What does a free society require of believers and non-believers alike?
December 4th, 2007
Timothy Garton Ash, What does a free society require of believers and non-believers alike?: “We do, however, need to be clearer about the difference between secularism and atheism. Secularism, in my view, should be an argument about arrangements for a shared public and social life; atheism is an argument about scientific truth, individual liberation and [...]
Tags: atheism · islam · religion · secularism
The crescent and the cross
November 11th, 2007
Simon Kuper, The crescent and the cross: “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion was written in the 1890s, possibly by the Russian-French journalist Matthieu Golovinski, and spread by the Tsarist secret police. A forgery, it claimed to be the manual of a Jewish conspiracy to rule the world. Bat Ye’or, author of the little-read [...]
The Taliban’s Secret Photos
August 25th, 2007
Slate V: “A Magnum photo essay. During his coverage of the fall of Afghanistan’s Taliban regime in 2002, photographer Thomas Dworzak discovered a stash of pictures showing male Taliban members in curious, effeminate poses.”
Tags: afghanistan · gender · homosexuality · islam · photography · taliban
Sex clothes anger Kenyan Muslims
July 16th, 2007
“Prostitutes are known for their skimpy attire, but Kenya’s coastal port of Mombasa is witnessing a controversial fashion makeover. The twilight ladies, as the city’s residents refer to the sex workers, have traded their revealing outfits for the more austere buibui – a loose, floor-length gown and head covering favoured by Muslim women.” (…) Some [...]
Tags: buibui · fashion · fetish · islam · kenya · prostitution · religion · sexuality
links for 2006-02-06
February 6th, 2006
WWW.YANNARTHUSBERTRAND.ORG Boeren met hun dieren. (tags: photography animals farmers art) Olympische Winter Spelen 2006 Overzicht van het wedstrijdprogramma. (tags: sport olympics tv) Moss the muse Artist’s bronze vision “Marc Quinn is to immortalise the supermodel Kate Moss as the Aphrodite of our age through five bronze sculptures.” (tags: art trendbeheer marc_quinn kate_moss) To be god [...]
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