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Book Review: Becoming by Michelle Obama
My rating: 5 of 5 stars It has literally taken me two years to read this book. Not because it is heavy or particularly long – far from it. For the last two years it has been my secret Sunday morning guilty secret; spending just 15-20 minutes or so with Michelle, revelling in the beauty […]
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My rating: 4 of 5 stars It’s funny how books and TV can set each other off sometimes. A writer gets a hit book, it becomes a hit movie or TV show and that encourages the writer to write more books in the series – that kind of thing. In my case here, with Gerald […]
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Tag Archives: Islamic terrorism
How to kill ISIS (and why we don’t want to)
“…ISIS are quite, quite brilliant…” As I write, there has been yet another terrorist attack. Yet again a van as rammed into a crowd. Where it happened doesn’t matter. You could be reading this at any time in the near … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Philosophy, politics, Religion
Tagged Al-Qaeda, ideology, Islam, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Islamic terrorism, oil, terrorism
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Am I Charlie? The Problem of maintaining a moderate view
‘Je suis Charlie’ – I am Charlie – is the rallying call in Europe and even around the world but … am I Charlie? Can I really identify with the men who died and what they stood for? And … Continue reading
Posted in community, Culture, Religion
Tagged Americans, atheism, Charlie Hebdo, Daniel Wickham, Elizabeth Plank, Human rights record, IHRRI, intolerance, Islamic terrorism, Jared Keller, JeSuisAhmed, JeSuisCharlie, Kamran Pasha, Nury Vittachi, Paris, Religion, right wing politics, secularism, terrorism
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