Islam – Globalistan https://globalistan.org Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:13:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.17 Does Europe have a problem with Islam? https://globalistan.org/does-europe-have-a-problem-with-islam/ https://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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]]> https://globalistan.org/culture-choc/feed/ 0 Ian Buruma on Enlightenment, Language and Multiculturalism https://globalistan.org/ian-buruma-on-enlightenment-language-and-multiculturalism/ https://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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