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2006

A collection of 11 posts

Identity: Islamophobia

Denmark's obsession with Muslims

Cumhuriyet yesterday [21 November 2006] reported that Denmark, which started a crisis when one of its newspapers printed cartoons of Prophet Mohammed(PBUH), has included the phrase “All terrorists are Muslims” in primary school textbooks. Cumhuriyet claimed the textbooks used in Denmark’s schools teach about Islam under chapters titled

Theology: Comparative Religion

Pope's Visit to Turkey

From the archive (2006): Benedict XVI in Turkey after Regensburg — institutions repairing what individuals damage; machinery, not sentiment.

Theology: Jurisprudence

Muslim Demographics

From the archive (2006): against demographic alarmism — the durable counter is communities legible through their own institutions and data.

Knowledge: Scholarship

Muslims & Modern Science - Catching Up

Dinar Standard [http://dinarstandard.com/current/Scientific100206.htm] **Table 1: Top 25 Most Productive Universities in the Muslim World***University CountryPublications**1. University Hacettepe Turkey 8,9792. University Istanbul Turkey 6,488 3. Ankara University Turkey 5,9824. Cairo University Egypt 4,9775. Kuwait UniversityKuwait 4,4956. King Saud University

Theology: Comparative Religion

Benedict XVI was Testing the Waters

From the archive (2006): Regensburg read as a probe — and the durable outcome: the institutions of Muslim–Christian dialogue it accidentally produced.

Archive: Palestine

Under Public Pressure, Saudis Threaten Regional War

From the archive (2006): Saudi posture under public pressure during the Lebanon war — the gap between sentiment and state capability, read in real time.

Women in Post-war Iraq

From the archive (2006): women’s lives in post-invasion Iraq — the measure of any intervention is what daily life becomes, and that measure is institutional.

Knowledge: Scholarship

Finally, Intellectuals against Israeli Apartheid

From the archive (2006): academics organising conscience into associations and journals — the institutional mechanism, whatever one’s view of the tactic.

Theology: Comparative Religion

Moral Leadership, Disarmament and Latent Racism

Pope Benedict said the following [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/04/16/upope.xml&sSheet=/portal/2006/04/16/ixportaltop.html] today: In a clear reference to Iran, he said: “Concerning the international crises linked to nuclear power, may an honourable solution be

Ahmedinejad, irrational?

From the archive (2006): the contrarian case that Iran won the Iraq war — independent analysis against the consensus of the day, kept as a case study in thinking for oneself.

Identity: Islamophobia

Denmark Incident: the sinister conclusions

From the archive (2006): the cartoons affair and the selective breaking of taboos — an asymmetry now running at machine speed, answerable only institutionally.