Suppressing Free Speech

We still haven't learned any lessons have we ....

Sir Salman Rushdie Speaking

 

.... this is obvious after last weekends attempted murder of Indian born author Salman Rushdie, when he was stabbed several times on a stage at an event in New York state.

The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters

Many of us like to think that we are in a world that is in the post enlightenment era ....

The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters - After Goya

..... that at the very least the world is a better place than it was in the 17th century ... an Age of Reason in fact.

The Complicity Of Silence

Another week of tolerance in the lands of the pure ......

Incitement To Murder Nothing New .....

.... and yet more Christians are in fear of their lives from the Muslim mobs.

Liberal Lessons From Kuwait

In Kuwait, the country that we trashed Iraq for in order to defend it as a bastion of rationality and liberal values (well they have oil and US President Bush was a friend of the ruling family) .....

Kuwaiti MPs Osama al-Shahin (L) and Shaaya al-Shaaya
arrive hand-in-hand to attend a Parliament session. Nice.

... there has been another bout of modernism.