What do we have in common? Dutch filmmaker and writer Theo van Gogh was murdered in Amsterdam on Nov.2 by a Muslim fundamentalist who didn’t like how van Gogh depicted the treatment women under Islam in his film Submission. Within days of the film’s August airing on Dutch television, van Gogh received death threats and […]
John Cavanagh, director of the Institute for Policy Studies, just sent around the following encouraging email to subscribers. I hope he doesn’t mind, but I’m taking the liberty to quote it here in full. (Emphases added by me): Dear IPS friends, My colleagues at IPS and I have been meeting for weeks with allies around […]
I know a Canadian school administrator here in Victoria, very intelligent, who has dual US-Canadian citizenship through his American mother, and who generally supports Bush. (He’s funny that way, I guess.) A few weeks ago he left me dumbstruck when he said that he thought the US was a theocracy like Iran. I’m an atheist […]
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