Lost in all the noise and recrimination of modern Islamophobia about mosques and minarets and burkas and whatnot, is the simple fact that the vast majority of muslims, jews and christians are neighbors, and members of the same civic fabric, and act accordingly towards common interests. Case in point: A project to transform a derelict…

Apologies for the lack of posts this month – I am in Stockholm attending my annual conference. Since Stockholm isn’t Hawai’i, I am here alone, which means I am overly diligent about attendance to compensate for missing my wife and kids. And they charge you to use public toilets here, too. Being immersed in academia…

What happens when a Domino’s pizza decides to serve to all-halal menu? The end of Western civilization, of course: Chris Yates, 29, a hospital worker living in Moseley, Birmingham, said he was told he couldn’t have a ‘Meteor’ pizza, topped with pepperoni, sausage, meatballs, ground beef and smoky bacon, when he called up at the…

Thabet exposes the elephant in the room regarding the murder of Jean Charles de Menezes by British police a few years ago: Which leads to me to a point not even the most harshest critic of the establishment has raised yet. The unmentioned racism. I remember this incident soon after the failed attempt to bomb…

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