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Let us take a glance at the results of a recent IFOP poll of 1,029 individuals in France who consider themselves as Moslems. They can be...

The heavenly creature in this 17th-century Indian miniature is known as a Buraq (Arabic term for lightning ): This is the kind of win...

Fox News has a “specialist” named Nolan Peterson (a former GI) who informed the world, last week, that there are so-called No-Go Zones i...

There are several fine articles in the English-speaking press that criticize the ridiculous notion that Islamophobia would be a greater prob...

It’s not easy to people outside France about the role in contemporary French society of a press organism such as Charlie Hebdo , and the im...

After this morning’s outrageous attack in Paris, the time has come to stop talking about Islamic actors in fuzzy terms. They are crazy homi...

Here in France, as elsewhere, Sydney’s terrible ordeal was front-page news, and we could follow events in real time, not only through the In...

Today or tomorrow... We won't be asked to choose a date. Brilliant exposé of everyday threats. Our ubiquitous enemy is …

Poor Stacey Dooley ! Poor Luton! I feel sorry for the people and the nation I once knew. If Brits were to think of themselves as toler...

I would say that he was . But so what? As outlined in a recent blog [ display ], even many Egyptians, these days, would appear to have t...

This Islamic video sent shivers down my spine: The poor little girl is expected to perform like a circus animal. It's an immensely...

As a boy in the northern London suburb of Islington, my grandfather Ernest Skyvington [1891-1985] used to play in Finsbury Park, while drea...

Click here to access an excellent article by Sam Harris entitled On the Freedom to Offend an Imaginary God . There's an old sayi...

In France yesterday, a similarly illegal protest march took place in Paris. We learn today that an official inquiry will take place, to...

The other evening, I watched a wonderful French TV documentary about the Moroccan cities of Casablanca and Fez, which are attempting to pres...

Whenever my donkey Moshé sees me approaching, he leaves his companion Mandrin and dashes over towards me. I think his eagerness has someth...