Guest Post – Is reform of Islam possible?
I’m absolutely delighted to bring you this intriguing and thoughtful guest post by John MC. It originally arrived as a series of comments on the…
Religion
Jinn and Bitter Lemmings
Out of the three big monotheistic religions that exist today, two of them, Judaism and to a slightly lesser extent Christianity, require that you…
Violent maniac changes religion. Can you guess which one he chose?
Is it Methodism? Judaism? Mormonism? Anglicanism? Roman Catholicism? Hinduism? Buddhism? What about Jainism? If you said ‘Islam’ then you’d be spot on. A violent…
From Elsewhere: Obsessions with Islamophobia inhibit reform.
I make no secret of the fact that I vehemently dislike Islam as an ideology. Just a basic look at the sort of societies…
From elsewhere: Can a book be dangerous?
Another brilliant video below from Apostate Prophet whose asking the question ‘Is the Koran dangerous?’ Now my view is that books are not dangerous…
Kuwaiti singer gives up Islam and chooses Judaism.
I will always give praise to those who choose to leave Islam and instead choose a better more free path than Islam can ever…
Happy Channuka 2020 to all this blog’s Jewish readers
It’s the third day of the eight day Channuka festival where we celebrate not just a military victory thousands of years ago against the…
From Elsewhere: Arielle Scarcella on ‘Muslim feminism’.
This blog has in the past mentioned the Lesbian and sex positive commentator Arielle Scarcella, mostly in connection to the journey that she has…
Welcome to Sargon’s new venture ‘Lotus Eaters’
I’ve been a long time consumer and admirer of the products of Carl Benjamin aka Sargon of Akkad. I support his consistent view that…
Happy Diwali to all the readers of this blog who celebrate it.
Tomorrow, November 14th, is the start of the festival of Diwali which is celebrated by Hindus, Sikhs, Jains and some Buddhists. It is a…
