With morbid anticipation, the UK media has awaited the death of the 100th British soldier in Afghanistan. On June 8 it happened: three soldiers from the 2nd Battalion Parachute Regiment  were killed by a suicide bomber in the south of the country. Quickly, Gordon Brown responded to the grim milestone. ‘They have paid the...
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At a seminar loosely arranged around Samuel Huntington’s The Clash of Civilizations, I had the opportunity to discuss Amartya Sen’s Identity and Violence, a direct attempt to answer Huntington, with Ibn Warraq (who wrote Why I am not a Muslim). Sen wants to make a big deal out of the Muslim emperor Akhbar of...
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