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  • Turks - New Applicants to NATO - Fear Women's Head Scarves?

    Speaking plain American English, I would say that any Western, Modern Government that can be brought down by women wearing head scarves, quite honestly deserves it's fate. This goes for Turkey, for Germany, and for France, too. How far does this anti-Moslem, anti-Arabia, anti-Religion and anti-Tradition Modernist Feminist conceit of our dopey, ...
    Posted to Foreigners by MichaelBernard1 on April 1, 2008

  • Someone please help me with this...

    OK. Background- I'm a well-educated, New England liberal. I believe that religion and the state should be kept separate. I believe that America is a place of great ideals and great potential, but that potential is squandered on superficial consumerism. I believe that Wal-Mart, and other uber-capitalist corporations like it are downright evil. I ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by wickedpissa on December 1, 2007

  • Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Western Civilization

    Whenever I read Christopher Hitchens, I learn a few lessons. In this case, Hitch upheld The Netherlands/Dutch as historically heroic for, among other things, offering refuge to Spinoza's family. Who knew? Unfortunately, when reading Hitchens, I always come across masterfully artful examples of his selective Polemics - (argumentative techniques.) ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by MichaelBernard1 on October 9, 2007

  • Apartheid and Muslim leadership.

    As a muslim and a former South African I am deeply offended by the following statement from Cristopher Hitchens, ''... Muslim leadership in South Africa had actually endorsed the apartheid regime?'' Huh? Where did he get his facts? Along with our other anti-apartheid colleagues, many muslims lost their lives and countless others put their's on ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by are122119 on September 12, 2007

  • Comparative Religion and Atrocity

    Perhaps we are timid about exploring the relationship between Islam and violence because it would require too close an examination of the relationship between religion and atrocity elsewhere, particularly in modern America. Most religions profess to promote peace and to prohibit the killing of one's fellow man. However, many of the greatest ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by theo cratoclastus on July 31, 2007