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EURSOC has been around for a couple of years now, but we've never seen one story dominate our reader queries like the Danish "cartoon jihad".
Ssshhhh!
Reacting to a Sunday Telegraph poll which revealed that forty percent of British Muslims want to see sharia law introduced into parts of the country, Marcel Berlins warns the government "Don't even think about it."
The End Of The Avant-Garde
A pair of ageing British artists win plaudits for a show calculated to offend Catholics: But would they insult Muslim sensibilities in the same way? The art world's avant garde, so dedicated to smashing bourgeois taboos, has finally met the one line it dare not cross.
Defender Of The Faith
The BBC has added an explanation for why it uses the honorific "peace be upon him (pbuh)" when mentioning Muhammad in its religion pages:
Drawn From Memory
The Jyllands-Posten cartoons have been accused of bearing similarities to anti-semitic caricatures from the Nazi era. Is this true?
The Cringe Continues
The BBC's religious rebirth continues. It's incredible how reporters who up to recently prided themselves on their godless scepticism now find room in their hearts for a misty-eyed vision of other belief systems.
Quote Of The Day
"Too many haters of capitalism and the United States still cram everything into the frame of untruth and self-deception that says my enemy's enemy is still my friend because, even if he blows up my family on the tube, murders my colleagues on the bus or threatens to behead me for publishing a drawing, he is still at war with Bush, Blair and Berlusconi. It is 50 years this month since that simplistic view of the world lost whatever moral purchase it may once have had. It is time such thinking was, to choose a sadly appropriate word, purged. Too long, my brothers and my sisters, too long."
Martin Kettle on the left's Cold War hangover, in the Guardian.
Double Standards Slipping
Great letter in today's Times from a disgruntled former BBC Chief Executive. Will Wyatt applauds the BBC's coverage of the Cartoon War, but criticises the "cultural cringe" that has come to dominate the broadcaster's website.
Madame Blair
Ségolène Royal must like living dangerously. The French public's favourite Socialist Party presidential candidate might look mild-mannered and her stated policies innocuous, but she's just put her candidacy on the line by praising one of the French left's most despised figures.
Hate Parade
Plenty of soul-searching but very little action has followed the protest in London by several hundred Muslims, many of whom were carrying placards and banners glorifying terror attacks.
Iran: A Warning From History
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has become the first western leader to speak openly of the threat posed by Iran's nuclear ambitions. Drawing comparisons with the rise of Hitler and the Nazis in 1930s Germany, she warned that the outside world must not make the same mistakes as it made by appeasing the Nazis.
