Tolerance: Fundamentally intolerable
We are very much becoming an impolite, uncivil society. And all in the name of tolerance
- 11 January 2013
Baroness Ashton - steering EU towards blasphemy laws?
The right not to be offended has no place in a democracy. Nor do blasphemy laws
- 19 October 2012
Global March to Jerusalem: A distortion of the historical record for political purposes
Jerusalem is not mentioned once in the Koran. By contrast, it is seared into the Jewish national consciousness. This march is a sham.
- 28 March 2012
What is happening in Egypt to the Copts is the Kristallnacht of our times.
Whatever the origins of the West's unwillingness to recognise the existence of religion as a causal agent of conflict, this is a naivety which we can no longer afford to possess.
- 11 October 2011
Kurdistan can be a model for democracy in a troubled region
Were it not for the first Gulf War, Saddam would have wiped the Kurds off the map. Why doesn't the UN recognise his violence as genocide?
- 1 October 2011
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