A test of pluralism?

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[url=http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/26/nyregion/26circumcise.html?ei=5070&en=d3076f6044d0e6f8&ex=1126324800&adxnnl=1&oref=login&adxnnlx=1126180690-9K6Y+OmOE6dlko+K54+fpw]Religious freedom versus health concerns[/url] (registration required), and in this case it’s not about Jehovah’s Witnesses and blood transfusions (though it does involve blood).

Ho-hum, it’s business-as-usual out there, as reported by Mark Richardson …

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The following are excerpts taken from recent log entries at Conservative Central‘s blog, Oz Conservative:
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In left-liberal Sweden they actually have an “Equality Minister.” He has come under fire, though, because the unit he set up to implement gender equality in employment has only three men in a staff of 28. Not … More ...

And now, for some comic relief…

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… evangelicalism’s superstar, Pat Robertson, [url=http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Robertson-Assassination.html?ei=5094&en=d6c7fbec390736ec&hp=&ex=1124942400&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print]attempts to retract his recent call for the Venezuelan President’s assassination[/url].

History, geography, society and Islam

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The various complaints about Islam and Muslim society at View from the Right and elsewhere (aggressiveness, deviousness, honor killings, polygamy, female genital mutilation, political irrationality, organized punitive rape, etc., etc., etc.), to the extent they reflect realities, suggest a common explanation related to the circumstance that Islam appeared where it did and spread mostly by … More ...

Dynamic Defense is the Best Defense Against Islam

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We are in a holy war with Islam. Hatred is a rational inference when disparate countries sharing nothing but a common religion and an animosity towards specific countries having a religion deemed by the disparate countries as deserving nothing less than the sword. Muslims here and abroad listen to grotesque descriptions of the U.S., one … More ...

Nesta Webster’s Theories.

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I’m wondering what people think of the theories of Nesta Webster regarding the French Revolution and the role of secret societies in the rise of revolutionary thought. Webster actually traces the modern crisis back to prehistoric times, tracing the development of secret societies from the first temptation of Eve in the Garden to the formation … More ...

As democracy leads to sharia, women’s equality leads to suppression of women

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Over [url=http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/003923.html]at VFR[/url]:

[I]As democracy leads to sharia, women’s equality leads to suppression of women

At his wife’s pushy insistence, President Bush made women’s equality a top priority in the democratization of Iraq. I hope Mrs. Bush is really, really happy about the fact that in the sharia-dominated Iraq created under her husband’s democratization policy, … More ...