In a new article in the excellent series on Francis Fukuyama recently available on openDemocracy, Roger Scruton takes a look (The trouble with Islam) at Fukuyama’s revisiting the legacy of his coda to history, The End of History and the Last Man.
You can squeeze Islam into the process of universal history only if you overlook […]
Brian Whittaker spotlights a long essay in the Nation magazine today. Written by the expatriate Moroccan author Laila Lalami, the essay called The Missionary Position, dismantles and demystifies the Muslim women “reformers”, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Irshad Manji.
To many these women represent the lone voices, howling in the Islamic wilderness, the sole purveyors of the […]
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June is Torture Awareness Month. June 26th is the date that the United Nations has marked as the International Day in Support of Survivors and Victims of Torture.
This blog has joined Bloggers Against Torture to spread awareness of American torture policy. The United States has increasingly used torture as […]
Memories of Menezes come flooding back when reading reports of another anti-terrorist “swoop” ending in the shooting of a “terror suspect” by the police.
The story so far.
After a tip-off from M15, 250 police officers in oxygen masks and “protective chemical gear” raid a house in Forest Gate, East London, that they have surveilling for months. […]
Jiri Rezak is a Czech-born, London-based photographer. When he was 19 he worked as a teacher trainer for a voluntary organisation in rural Bangladesh. Whilst he was out there he picked up a camera and proceeded to change his life. He’s since become a professional photographer and judging from his work that he’s put together […]
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