Europe – Globalistan http://globalistan.org Sun, 18 Apr 2010 15:20:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.17 To fly or not to fly? http://globalistan.org/to-fly-or-not-to-fly/ http://globalistan.org/to-fly-or-not-to-fly/#respond Sun, 18 Apr 2010 15:20:57 +0000 http://www.globalistan.org/?p=531 As people in Europe consider the question, take a moment to consider this graphic from the Information is Beautiful Blog I’ll leave it at that for now. Hope all of you stuck out there get back home safe, sound and happy in the knowledge that somehow you’ve contributed to making our planet more habitable. The […]

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]]> http://globalistan.org/to-fly-or-not-to-fly/feed/ 0 Does Europe have a problem with Islam? http://globalistan.org/does-europe-have-a-problem-with-islam/ http://globalistan.org/does-europe-have-a-problem-with-islam/#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:13:05 +0000 http://www.globalistan.org/?p=480 The last couple of months have seen intense debate on European society’s openness towards Muslim immigrants. Following the Swiss ban on minarets and the French proposal to ban the burqa in public life, fears have been expressed over the exclusion of Muslims from European social and political life. Politicians have gained enormous capital by channeling […]

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]]> http://globalistan.org/does-europe-have-a-problem-with-islam/feed/ 6 Ian Buruma on Enlightenment, Language and Multiculturalism http://globalistan.org/ian-buruma-on-enlightenment-language-and-multiculturalism/ http://globalistan.org/ian-buruma-on-enlightenment-language-and-multiculturalism/#respond Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:10:38 +0000 http://www.globalistan.org/?p=135 I spent a large part of today watching Prof. Ian Buruma’s brilliant lecture series at Princeton university entitled ‘No Divine Rights: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents’ which I am posting here. Buruma is a scholar of great versatility. His subjects range from a fictional-biography of an Indian cricketer-prince, to works on European and Japanese […]

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