Mehdi Hasan on Pakistan

Interesting piece fom Mehdi Hasan in the New Statesman blog that I have only just seen and is worth reading.

Tom Chivers on Ashtiani & Islam

"Only the other day, five Anglican bishops decided that the particular flavour of Christian God they were following wasn’t nasty enough to gays and women, so they swapped for a different one. To my knowledge none of them were martyred in a public square in Oxford, and I think we can all say hurrah for that. They might not have been so lucky during the Reformation. This isn’t because the Bible has changed, it’s because Christians have – for the better, by and large." Writes Tom Chivers in Telegraph blogs in a piece about Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani facing stoning for adultery and the true face of Islam. well worth reading.

Hypocrisy and the BBC

BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner argues on the six o'clock that most muslims live in 'authoritarian regimes' around the world and cannot therefore understand why the US government does not intervene (as their own regime undoubtedly would) and stop pastor Terry Jones from burning the Qu'ran in Florida.

No arguments are presented for the rule of law, democracy, freedom or individual conscience as we should expect from an unbiased media organisation. Once again the BBC uses its poverty of aspiration to justify appeasement and hypocrisy in the name of cultural relativism.

All we need do apparently is 'understand' islam and all will be well.