Richard Dawkins doing his best to turn atheism into a full blown religion:
On a more serious note, this is tacit acceptance that people need to be schooled into a tradition which allows them to begin an inquiry.
Islam News @ NYT- Women’s Rights in Mideast:
- Driving Miss Saudi: Young women in Riyadh try to balance Islam and modernity as the stunted desert kingdom makes progress in “Saudi Time.”
- A Dispute on Using the Koran as a Path to Jesus: “The Camel Method” for preaching to Muslims has prompted controversy among Southern Baptists.
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plimfix 7:38 am on June 28, 2009 Permalink |
I expected a link to The Onion, not The Times! This is hilarious!!
matoko_chan 8:44 am on June 28, 2009 Permalink |
From a cognitive anthropolgy standpoint, I simply don’t see how Dawkins strategy can work. No mapping for supernatural agents.
Naila 4:03 pm on June 28, 2009 Permalink |
My first reaction to this story was “oh dear God,” and then I loled at how apropos my instinctual reaction was.
matoko_chan, i love your avatar and handle! GITS is one of my fav animes ever. Although I prefer hybrid metastories like Haruhi Suzumiya and Samurai Champloo, GITS really got under my skin.
shams 4:14 pm on June 28, 2009 Permalink |
shukra, Naila….but on this blog I should use my muslim name.
GitS is the ultimate who-am-i.
Crick’s astonishing hypothesis from a cyborg perspective.
pi.info 6:49 pm on June 28, 2009 Permalink |
Love the anime heads around here. We should do a Muslim meetup at Anime Boston 2010. I saw some hijabis there this year dressed up as angels of death – carrying oversized scythes, other cosplay stuff – but the head coverings were definitely hijab.
Shams al-Nahar 11:08 pm on June 29, 2009 Permalink |
shhhh….Aziz has a whole blog on anime!