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Religious Shiites do not have to legally enshrine Shariah, or Koranic law, to exercise their will. Enforcement of Islamic practices is done on the streets, in the shadows. “We’re trying to do it culturally...

So this young Iraqi, a wannabe suicide bomber “martyr”, was radicalised by the Fallujah schoolyard massacre in 2003, when US troops fired lived rounds into a protest march, killing 12 and wounding dozens. Now...

You know, something was nagging at me, some sense of dj vu reading about the Patrick Henry stepford wife school. And then it came to me, the old Soviet Union’s Party Schools (and definitely...

The kids in school who annoy her the most are the ones locked into their Bibles, like one who, when they were studying Nietzsche, kept saying, But God isnt dead! She said, What happens...

Later, [Pastor] Racer was working for a greenhouse and got to know a lot of florists. ”You’d be amazed how many people in the floral industry are homosexuals,” he said. ”And that’s where I...

The day has finally dawned when increasing traffic on the blog exceeded my monthly traffic cap (it’s hosted on an el-cheapo free trial server). So now I either actually finally *pay* for hosting, or...

There are suddenly so many memos flying around that, thankfully, someone has collected all the extant Downing Street “war criminals” memos into one convenient zip file. Some of these may be fake or planted...

I have (mostly) resisted the urge to say “Hah!” to any and all Apple Zealots over the past couple of weeks, as the rumours of Apple’s switch from an IBM/Motorola to an Intel CPU...

An hour before dawn, the sky still clouded by a dust storm, the soldiers of the Iraqi army’s Charlie Company began their mission with a ballad to ousted president Saddam Hussein. “We have lived...

The rift between the Iraqi government and hostile Sunni Arabs widened further on Wednesday as the country’s leaders came out in support of ethnic and sectarian militias that Sunnis fear could be used against...