Mark Durie
While waves of unrest sweep the Middle East in response to dire conditions which include soaring wheat prices and failed economies, and the yoke of authoritarian rule, the question is: what will remain if and when things settle down? In this post I would like to...
In the Toronto Star of Friday January 21, an article was published with the headline 'Pakistani Christians seek safety in Islam'. It described a steady stream of Christians who are converting to Islam in Pakistan in order to ensure their safety and the safety of...
VIDEO AND AUDIO FOR THIS EVENT CAN BE ACCESSED HERE The Organization of the Islamic Conference: Fatwas on Freedom and Democracy January 19, 2011, 12:30 - 2:00 - Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C. Headquarters The Organization of the Islamic Conference: Fatwas on Freedom and Democracy Wednesday, January 19 12:30 - 2:00 PM The...
The massacre of Christians at Our Lady of Salvation Cathedral in Baghdad on October 31 2010 gained extensive world-wide media attention. This Assyrian Catholic church was taken over by jihadis, and during the course of the several hours during which they controlled the church, the...
A recent forum was held on October 14 2010, and hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations. It was titled The Prospect for Peace in Sudan: A View from Religious Leaders on the Ground. Senior Sudanese Christian leaders discussed prospects for peace in Sudan. The...
Before it was innocuously renamed Park 51, the Ground Zero mosque development had been known as the Cordoba House, which proponents claimed referred to a supposed golden age of multi-faith tolerance under Islamic rule. What they neglect to mention is that historically, non-Muslims under Muslim...
What is a mosque? This is an important and pressing question. I am reminded of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein's observation: "One thinks that one is tracing the outline of the thing's nature over and over again, and one is merely tracing round the frame through which we...
I have been ruminating further about Rabbi Gary M. Bretton-Granatoor's 9/11 address. In my previous blog I questioned his presupposition that those who oppose the Park51 Project (the 'Ground Zero Mosque) must be bigots, as well as his assumption that ignorance is the cause of...
