This blog post is about how to speak reasonably about sensitive topics, and specifically ones which can give rise to charges of vilification. In ideal world, speech would be free, and everyone would use their freedom responsibly. But human nature being what it is, speech is...
I first became intrigued by the situation of non-Muslims under Islam while doing linguistic field work in Aceh, Indonesia in the late 1970's and early 1980's. This interest was piqued in the 1990's by reading Bat Ye'or's The Decline of Christianity under Islam. This led to...
In recent weeks a series of incidents in Egypt give evidence that, post-Mubarak, the Copts are being pressured to assume the time-warped status of dhimmis, a captive people in their own native lands, whose status is to be tightly circumscribed by traditional sharia law. The ancient...
