November 23, 2005
November 18, 2005
more hirsi ali
flambingo's current hero hirsi ali is to make submission II (submission being the film about the supression of women within islam which she made with theo van goth which led to him been stabbed to death by a maniac). submission II will focus on islams attitudes to homosexuality.
November 04, 2005
the golden age of secularism
catherine bennet on madonna's insistant kaballism.
"Was there really a time, not so long ago, when Thought for the Day, with the Rabbi Lionel Blue maundering about his mum was the most egregious irritant to this country's non-believers? If so, it is fast taking on the look of a golden age of secularism, when one likes to think that Tony Blair, had he shared his vision of a new medieval country in which no one spoke ill of religion and where state schools would be handed to unyielding members of mutually contradictory faiths, would either have been escorted to Hyde Park Corner or locked up as a danger to himself and others. Penetrating the descending cloud of religious mania, Madonna's conviction that no one is taking her sermons seriously should be celebrated for what it is: a ray of hope."