In September, a dozen cartoons were published in Denmark critical of Islam, some depicting Muhammad, the prophet and founder of Islam, in an unflattering light. Many Muslims consider it blasphemy to print any image of Muhammad. One cartoon depicts Muhammad with a turban in the shape of a bomb. Another …
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Our Story Is Not History For Everybody
Colonial attitudes have proven unwieldy in the past and have caused nothing but trouble; don't you think it's time we tried something different?
Read More »Arab Idol Show Heads to Finals
The success of SuperStar, the Arab world's answer to American Idol, is a pulsating arrow pointing in the right cultural direction.
Read More »Making Money Off Iraq
The Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction finds over $90 million unaccounted for, in one region of the country, in one year.
Read More »Making London a Sustainable City: Is It Possible?
Can a city of seven million, with still largely Victorian infrastructure that is choked with very 20th-century traffic, become green?
Read More »Disabled: The Invisible Minority
Of course I notice they don't have handicap elevators or ramps leading up to bell towers…
Read More »Canadian Election 2006: Final Thoughts
This election did not give the Conservatives a mandate to remake the country in their own image. But it has given the country the opportunity to take a long hard look at the party and what it has to offer.
Read More »Canadian Election 2006: Conservative Minority/Paul Maritin Resigns
Conservatives 124, Liberals 103, Bloc Quebecois 51, N.D.P. 29, Independant 1
Read More »Torture, Soldiers, And The Geneva Convention
The American people need to realize that if they accept their governments use of torture on captured military, that they are condemning their own soldiers to the same treatment.
Read More »Surprising Sanity about Sex in Britain
"The number of people having sex before 16 years old has fallen from 32 per cent in 2002 to 20 per cent now."
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