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Spare a Thought for Kenji Goto | The Diamond Mine
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Against: totalitarianism. For: Liberty, Secularism, Enlightenment, Cats. Call for political action to Free Raif Badawi and Waleed Abu Al-Khair →. Spare a Thought for Kenji Goto. March 11, 2015. I recommend watching the Sky News interview. As Michael Weiss and Hasan Hasan put it their excellent book. Islamism and its countless victims – Syrian, Iraqi, Shia, Christian, Yazidi, Kurd, journalists, aid workers. People like Kenji Goto. When ‘Jihadi John’ was unmasked our airwaves were filled with...Click to sh...
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Call for political action to Free Raif Badawi and Waleed Abu Al-Khair | The Diamond Mine
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Against: totalitarianism. For: Liberty, Secularism, Enlightenment, Cats. Spare a Thought for Kenji Goto. The Truth Matters Also →. Call for political action to Free Raif Badawi and Waleed Abu Al-Khair. March 13, 2015. Call for political action to Free Raif Badawi and Waleed Abu Al-Khair. Click to email (Opens in new window). Click to print (Opens in new window). Share on Facebook (Opens in new window). Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window).
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Your Easter Sermon | The Diamond Mine
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Against: totalitarianism. For: Liberty, Secularism, Enlightenment, Cats. The Truth Matters Also. The Left Will Eat Itself: An Observation →. April 6, 2015. The Elim Community Church. Is a small walk from my house. I pass it on my way into the city centre. The church is close to the bus station and it uses this prominent position to evangelise via brightly coloured billboards placed at two of its corners. Everyone in Carlisle has seen these. To not know this requires a level of ignorance remarkable in a m...
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Against: totalitarianism. For: Liberty, Secularism, Enlightenment, Cats. What Did You Expect? September 20, 2015. Look, I don’t like the bloody thing either. That, though, is why I’ve never put myself forward for a job where I’m expected, on occasion, to sing it. I’m a republican too: you won’t catch me volunteering to sing Her … Continue reading →. Some thoughts on Corbyn and the Labour Party. September 20, 2015. Originally posted on The Gerasites. Brief History of a Lie. September 7, 2015. In 2005 the ...
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The Truth Matters Also | The Diamond Mine
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Against: totalitarianism. For: Liberty, Secularism, Enlightenment, Cats. Call for political action to Free Raif Badawi and Waleed Abu Al-Khair. Your Easter Sermon →. The Truth Matters Also. March 19, 2015. I beseech you, dear reader, to read Jonathan Capehart’s brave and noble piece in the Washington Post. Yet I began to have doubts almost immediately. Other evidence began to emerge, evidence that conflicted with this picture. Witnesses to the shooting told conflicting stories. Why believe on...Those who...
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Jacobinism: On Motes and Beams
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Sunday, 19 July 2015. On Motes and Beams. Islamic State Is An Enemy Of Freedom But.". Last week, the Guardian. On an intriguing new counter-extremism initiative. Organised in partnership with a Muslim charity called Upstanding Neighbourhoods. S report, however, prompted an indignant response. From Ella Whelan over at Sp! Whelan offered two objections, the first of which is strategic, the second of which is philosophical. On the subject of strategy, she had this to say:. The language is tendentious and sh...
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Jacobinism: The Ballad of Jihadi John
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Friday, 6 March 2015. The Ballad of Jihadi John. Terror, Apologists, and the Vindication of Gita Sahgal. SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL: Mohammed Emwazi (Left) and Asim Qureshi of CAGE (Right). These were the now-notorious words Asim Qureshi, research director for the Islamist pressure group CAGE, used to describe Mohammed Emwazi, a British Islamic State fighter wanted for his part in the beheading of at least 5 hostages. They were offered at a catastrophic press conference. And it began like this:. The narrativ...
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Jacobinism: April 2014
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Thursday, 17 April 2014. Radical Jew Hatred and the Decolonial Shakedown. Left to Right: Trotskyite Guardian-scribe Richard Seymour;. French Fascist Comedian Dieudonné M'bala M'bala performs his Quenelle. Spokesperson for Le Parti des Indigènes de la République. Western critics of regressive values within minority communities tend to elicit one of two accusations. The second accusation is one of intolerance. This represents a more radical view that, while values and practices with respect to women an...
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Jacobinism: July 2015
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Wednesday, 22 July 2015. The Lonely Nobility of Brendan O'Neill. FGM and The Case Against The Case Against Intervention. In an angry article for the Spectator. Brendan O’Neill inveighs against provisions in the Serious Crime Act (2015). Which authorise the confiscation of passports, and mandatory vaginal examinations of young girls thought to be at risk of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). Labial excision, infibulation. 20,000 British girls are estimated to be at risk of FGM of one kind or another every y...
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Jacobinism: Reactionary Radicals
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Thursday, 16 July 2015. Owen Jones and the Rainbow Qur'an. In a 2012 article. For the Guardian,. Jonathan Freedland had defended his friend Mehdi Hasan by convicting Hasan’s critics of a strange form of racism:. Subtle examples] can be confusing, because they often dress up in progressive, Guardian-friendly garb – slamming Islam as oppressive of gay and women's rights, for example – but the thick layer of bigotry is visible all the same. Call it progressives' prejudice. When Rahman asked why this had not...
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