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Islam, Religion and Secularism

Is Muslim PseudoScience Taught at GWU?
Prof. Seyyed Hossein Nasr of George Washington University was chosen a year or two ago to lead a Muslim delegation to the Pope. This was a bit of…
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Lorna Salzman
Religion as the Basis for Morality Is a Creationist Notion
Letters to the NY Times on June 18, 2017 from the “religious left” may have proven the incompatibility of science and religion. Even secularists and…
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Lorna Salzman
Why Won’t Pamela Geller Behave?
Thought Precedes Action. Sometimes it is just speculation or daydreaming or what precedes a work of fiction, a conversation or mere opinion. It is a…
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Lorna Salzman
When Sharia Law Comes to the USA
This is not exaggeration or lies. All of these things are either permitted, encouraged or mandated by the Koran, hadith or sharia law, and are observed…
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Lorna Salzman
Why Islam is the Problem
A misunderstanding by many liberals is that "radical" Islam is different from "moderate" Islam. However, no such distinction exists with regard to the…
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Lorna Salzman
Can Islamism be Distinguished from Islam?
A recent column by Daniel Pipes expresses a belief that Islam, the religion, can and should be distinguished from radical or political Islam, which is a…
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Lorna Salzman
American Jews: Dhimmis or Dummies?
Are American Jews ignorant of the threat of radical Islam and Islamic jihad? Have they followed the trajectory of these threats in the United States as…
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Lorna Salzman
The Flight of Benjamin Barber
The NY Times Book Review of June 6, 2010 has a fiery tirade by academic Benjamin Barber, protesting, predictably, a favorable review a week before, by…
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Lorna Salzman
"We are the Good Jews, not the Bad Jews": A hypothetical letter from some American Jews to The World
Dear World: We humbly, civilly and respectfully ask that you take some of your valuable time out to read this. We are writing it because we are…
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Lorna Salzman
The Silence of the Lambs: Kristof and Buruma Put Women in Their Place
For writers like Nicholas Kristof and Ian Buruma, it would seem that it is perfectly all right to tolerate "overheated" language in talking of social…
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Lorna Salzman
The Honor Roll of Freethinkers and Defenders of Human Rights
This is a partial list of mostly alive and mostly real people: writers, philosophers, ethicists, historians, activists, gadflies, and publications. They…
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Lorna Salzman
The Islamist Destabilization of Our Universities
A coalition of Muslim, black and radical left groups has brought its toxic brand of fascistic anti-Semitism to the University of California/San Diego…
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Lorna Salzman
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