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November 29, 2007 by graham

To be filed under WTF

From BBC news (link): A British teacher has been found guilty in Sudan of insulting religion after she allowed her primary school class to name a teddy bear Muhammad. Gillian Gibbons, 54, from Liverpool, has been sentenced to 15 days in prison and will then be deported. Which is bad enough. I mean it's a [...]

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September 12, 2007 by graham

A nice summary

I've seen posts hovering around the place about Atheism and how we Atheists (or Brights, if you prefer, though I can't say it sits right with me as a label) should or shouldn't try to convert people to our way of thinking. I came across this comment on, of all places, Facebook, and I think [...]

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June 24, 2007 by graham

A Muslim view on the whole Rushdie thing

Irshad Manji, a self-titled "Muslim Refusenik" gives her reaction to the whole furore that has exploded over the decision to make Salman Rushdie a Knight of the realm over at the Religion News Blog. Salman Rushdie is not the problem. Muslims are: Above all, I am offended that so many other Muslims are not offended [...]

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June 11, 2007 by graham

The first step

Seth Godin sums up the starting-a-story problem perfectly: That Moment When you are sitting right on the edge of something daring and scary and creative and powerful and perhaps wonderful… and you blink and take a step back. That's the moment. The moment between you and remarkable. Most people blink. Most people get stuck. All [...]

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November 11, 2005 by graham

For the Fallen

They shall not grow old as we that are left grow old; Age will not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun, and in the morning We will remember them. I stood in Market Square, outside the old Lancaster Town Hall, and I bowed my head as the clock [...]
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