Word: islamicism
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Fear of Islamic culture is encapsulated also in the Europe-wide debate over the veil. President Nicolas Sarkozy of France has promised to push ahead with a ban on the full veil, and Belgium has become the first European nation to hold a successful vote on the subject. A concerted...
Banning minarets and burqas may only be the beginning. In Italy, the Northern League is increasing its numbers in Silvio Berlusconi’s ruling coalition and came out on top in many of March’s regional elections. The party specializes in “Muslim-baitingâ?...
Yet South Park’s recent 200th episode, which includes a depiction of the prophet Muhammad, may have finally crossed the line of what Comedy Central is willing to air. After the premiere of the first part of the two-part episode, in which the prophet Muhammad was depicted...
When considering what happened in the cases of the Danish cartoonist who is now in hiding after depicting the prophet Muhammad and van Gogh’s murder, the writers of South Park and the employees of Comedy Central were under especially salient and imminent threats from radical Islamic activists...
Muslims should be offended that Matt Stone and Trey Parker would even dare to consider depicting Muhammad—it is blasphemous according to Islamic law. But taking offense is not the sole province of religion or religious persons, and South Park has committed egregious transgressions against people of various...