It is a daring hypothesis which is outlined in this year’s second eye-opener by Verlag der Weltreligionen (after Angelika Neuwirth’s tour de force of a European approach to the Qur’an; see my review here), Thomas Bauer’s Other History of Islam. In general, the 450 pages of the book are enjoyable reading telling a quite different [...]
Archive for December 4th, 2011
A Culture of Ambiguity
Posted in Book Review, Islam, tagged ambiguity, culture, intolerance, Islamicized Islam, Thomas Bauer, tolerance on December 4, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Seems I’m Safe
Posted in WikiLeaks, tagged 1984, Julian Assange, nternet surveillance, Orwellian World, phone monitoring, speech analysis, spy files, spyware, trojan on December 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
According to WikiLeaks’ recent publication in a campaign, the Spy Files Maps, internet surveillance, phone monitoring, government trojan style spyware, and speech analysis simply do not exist (so far) in Norway. It is a relief that Assange continues his important work and even expands it to publicizing what has been available and known already but [...]