To see my interview with the Danish TV programme, Deadline, go to http://www.dr.dk/dr2/deadline2230/lordag.htm and scroll down the screen to the sixth paragraph and click on…
TV International English begins again
I am back from maternity leave and have begun TV International English programmes again. To view the weekly hour long programme broadcast throughout the Middle…
MANIFESTO: Together facing the new totalitarianism
Today, the following manifesto will be published in Charlie Hebdo, a French leftwing newspaper that had published the Mohammad caricatures. It has been signed by…
I kid you not
In an interview with Algerian El Khabar newspaper in Arabic, George Galloway, the Respect MP, says the Mohammad caricatures are worse than the murder of…
Sound familiar?
Elham Afroutan who was arrested on 29 January 2006 with six colleagues for the republication of an anonymous satirical piece in a local Iranian publication…
Human beings first!
In this day and age it is supposedly no longer the individual but religion that is guaranteed rights, equality, tolerance, respect…And most often at the…
Just a normal Islamic sheikh
Islamic cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri has been jailed for seven years in the UK after being found guilty of inciting murder and race hate. In…
Islam must be criticised!
It’s interesting how free speech, the right to criticise and ridicule god, prophet or religion, the separation of religion from the state and secularism as…
Defend Free Speech and Secularism
’ve set up a petition on petitiononline in defence of free speech and secularism. The text reads as follows: We, the undersigned, unequivocally condemn the…
Offensive, Shmoffensive
An email I received says my blog and the reprinting of the caricatures of Mohammad are insulting and offensive. Of course they can be offensive…