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Posted on August 21, 2017September 2, 2018

The Cross, the Star, and the Crescent Moon: on the false equivalence of the Old, the New, and the Final Testament

There are major and minor differences between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, in scripture, in history, in practice, and in prophet, that do warrant difference in conversation, in attitude, and in response.

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Posted on May 12, 2017September 2, 2018

“But where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”: on faithful parents and the rights of a child

The child is but a lamb, and the parent but a child, obedient to God and faith and scripture.

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Posted on February 14, 2017September 2, 2018

Do Not Flirt With Blasphemy Laws

You cannot condemn Islamophobia.

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Posted on January 3, 2017September 2, 2018

See No Evil, Hear No Evil, End No Evil: on the fears of facing Islam

There appear to be three reasons that those-who-otherwise-would do not openly, regularly, publicly, perhaps not even privately, criticise any or all of Islam, or suffer those who do.

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Posted on November 10, 2016September 2, 2018

Strange Bedfellows: feminist values & Islamic veiling

Young girls are not the possessions of parents or communities to be dressed up in 7th century neurosis.

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Posted on August 21, 2016September 2, 2018

And They Felt No Shame: on challenging creationism

We ought to be the serpents in the garden.

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Posted on June 28, 2016September 2, 2018

The Selfish Meme: Islamophobia

Islamophobia is a meme, and for all the benign and zeitgeist-capturing memes around, this one is insidious, clothed in superficial virtue, and intensely virulent.

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Posted on December 13, 2015August 17, 2017

A Child Is Born

Sometime around two thousand years ago, somewhere within that place just beyond the northeast of Africa, to some family unknown and unnamed, a child is born.

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