Tag Archives: International

Yesterday, the BBC investigative news program Panorama tackled the thorny and critical issue of Islamic extremism in Britain and whether the Islamic leadership there, in particular the ostensibly moderate Muslim Council of Britain, was capable of “dealing with this issue head on,” as MCB Secretary General Sir Iqbal Sacranie promised …

I'm not blaming Google for directly censoring anybody, only that they have created the possibility for censorship.

When does tradition...become the shackle that ties us into backwardness and bigotry?

What is more important than providing quality health care to a population?

As we reported in June, the Board of Directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the Internet’s main oversight body, approved a new domain for “adult-entertainment” sites — .xxx — but now the ICM Registry, the not-for-profit group which would operate the .xxx domain name, has …

... it may be time to give our six months' notice and go back to the way things used to be

What is it going to take for us to emulate the people of Bombay and stay up all night offering aid to those in need?

The briefcase full of diamonds is secondary to the religion of the two men.

...start to reinvest in our society what kind of dividends will it pay out in twenty years time?

Want to know when The Age of Enlightenment ended and what is responsible? Francis Wheen thinks he has it pinpointed in How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World. According to Wheen, 1979 “marks the moment when the world was jolted by a violent reaction to the complacency of the existing order.” This …