Sunday, December 7, 2008
The Mumbai Attacks – Another Watershed Event...Part III
As is usually the case, this is turning into more than originally intended. Because of time constraints, I can only write this series in small 'bites' and ask my readers' forbearance. I would also ask that they withhold judgment until the end... I shall begin this part with two quotes from comments...
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Tuesday, December 2, 2008
The Mumbai Attacks – Another Watershed Event...Part II
Today, let us begin with a few preliminary remarks. Phobia, from the Greek, simply means fear. However, in conventional usage, the word has long since become associated with particular kinds of fear: those that are unwarranted and pathological. In fact, there is often a ‘disease model’ involved:...
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Saturday, November 29, 2008
The Mumbai Attacks – Another Watershed Event...Part I
For some time now Islamist terror has been endemic in many parts of the world, particularly in India. But the scope of the Mumbai attacks is unprecedented and, I suspect, is merely the first of similar events to come. 9/11 represents the beginning of a new era: a time in which it became clear that...
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008
It’s Official – the PLO is at War with Israel...
In my recent observations on the situation in the Middle East, in my ‘Hamas’ Mickey and Israeli Child-killer’ series, found here, http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Nautikos/570612, I referred to the somewhat encouraging fact that at least the draft of the new Palestinian constitution no longer...
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
Turkey and Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins is an internationally known and respected professor at Oxford, an ethologist and zoologist. He is a writer whose books have had tremendous impact, among them The Selfish Gene, The Extended Phenotype, The Blind Watchmaker and The God Delusion. I have gained valuable insights from...
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Saturday, October 11, 2008
Great! We’ve got a Debate! Christian and Muslim Freakazoids...Part II
In order to make things as easy as possible for my esteemed readership, I have reprinted benzinha’s comment below, to be followed by my response. And I am serious when I say that I welcome this debate... We Christians cannot be held liable for what our fringe freakazoids do, spout, call for, teach,...
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Friday, October 10, 2008
Great! We’ve got a Debate! Christian and Muslim Freakazoids...Part I
At the very end of my “Israeli child-killer” series, we have the beginnings of a debate, something I had hoped to generate in the first place, a hope that was disappointed. Voices ‘from the other side’, as it were, remained silent. These two comments, while not from Muslims, nonetheless are...
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Thursday, October 9, 2008
Hamas' 'Mickey' and Israeli child-killers...X (Final)
This shall be the last post in the current series. Not because the topic is exhausted (I am barely scratching surfaces here), but because much of what I would want to get into would necessarily require more work and time than I can devote to it, and would also be in danger of becoming too ‘academic’...
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Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Hamas' 'Mickey' and Israeli child-killers...IX
In this post I shall briefly deal with the ‘issue’ of Jerusalem. It is next to impossible to speak of a city intimately bound up with the course of many thousands of years of human history in merely prosaic terms, a city that really ‘belongs’ to the world. But it can’t be helped, because for...
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Monday, October 6, 2008
Hamas' 'Mickey' and Israeli child-killers...VIII
This part is long and dry, and even more boring than the earlier stuff. Sorry... In the previous part, I made reference to the Palestinian Constitution. Basically, my interest in that document is limited to the degree that it has a bearing on the relationship between Palestine and Israel. This...
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