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“Freedom of speech is the air that any thinker breathes; it’s the fuel that ignites the fire of an intellectual’s thoughts.” Raif Badawi The title of his book 1000 Lashes and its subtitle Because I Say What I Think is all you need to know about the case of Raif …

Dabiq is an online magazine published by ISIS, addressing Westerners, both Muslims and kafir, in English and other languages (their issues can be found here –attention, some include gory images). Its purpose is propaganda which aims to attract new members and support by Muslims in the West, as well as …

This is an article from the ISIS online magazine Dabiq (issue 15), called ‘Why we hate you & why we fight you’. The posting is meant to be informative –I also thought it would be useful for it to be translated in Greek. For my comments on the piece, click …

As if the world doesn’t have enough experience of religious violence throughout its history to recognize it when it sees it, every time a new Islamic terrorist attack takes place a new debate is raised about whether it had anything to do with Islam or not. It is particularly the …

It’s not only the Armenian genocide that Cenk Uygur from The Young Turks got wrong when he denied it happened (and later made an awkward “apology” stating ignorance on the issue, still without admitting the historical truth)[1]; he once tackled with the Cyprus issue, getting the facts wrong once more. …

“What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.” Salman Rushdie   On Valentine’s Day 1989, Ayatollah Khomeini sent a different kind of love letter to Salman Rushdie through the Radio Tehran station. He issued a fatwa against him calling all Muslims on Earth to …

“There is no god, and we are his prophets” Cormac McCarthy, The Road This story would be funny, if it wasn’t tragic. It’s the story of how a dozen comic cartoons contributed to the deaths of roughly 200 people, while Western leaders, and the Western public at large, failed to …

On 7 January 2015, a tragedy befell the capital of France, when two brothers attacked the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, killing and injuring many of its staff. Cause of the attack were the blasphemous cartoons on its front pages, which depicted Mohamed; a depiction that constitutes a …