Personal diary of John Barnabas (aka Barney) Leith
From the daily archives:
Emran Qureshi has written a fascinating op-ed piece on the Harvard Law School website, under the title The Islam the Riots Drowned Out.
Qureshi’s central point is that is a strong humanistic tradition in Islam that is being destroyed by the extremists in the name of what they imagine Islam to be.
Sadly, the recent polarization obscures [...]
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Ruth Gledhill’s blog has an excellent article about a deeply worrying development in the long-standing persecution of the Baha’is in Iran. It is well worth reading – and following her links – if you want to find out about this serious, persistent, but not so well known, oppression of a community purely on the grounds [...]
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The day the clocks went forward to British Summer Time and I lost an hour’s sleep, the BBC whisked me off at 6.45am (5.45am by my body clock) in a silver car to Broadcasting House to do an interview on BBC Radio 4’s Sunday programme. You can pick up a link to listen to the [...]
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