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Tahrir Square meme: Event
openAwakening in conjunction with the University of East London is organizing a three-part event series on ‘The Tahrir Square Meme’ to be held at UEL's Dockland Campus.
Our first event is Rap and the Arab Spring.
The Long Revolution
The Long and the Quick of revolution Anthony Barnett
We live in revolutionary times... but what does this mean? Anthony Barnett
The precariat: why it needs deliberative democracy Guy Standing
The Long Revolution Raymond Williams
Occupy movement
Our Authors
Jim Gabour Sunday Comics
James Warner Standing Perpendicular, as books do
Markha Valenta Inter Alia: religion, politics, culture
Paul Rogers on Global security
Li Datong on China from the inside
Mary Kaldor on Human security
Daniele Archibugi on Cosmopolitan democracy
For England's Sake!
Book - Fred Halliday's oD essays
The Drugs Policy Forum
Postcards from the future
Demotix: photo partner
A minaret isn't a 'religious right' is it ? It is actually a planning issue.
Muslims constantly claim about this or that and 'our Muslim brothers', so it seems they see themselves as part of one community and so one assumes must approve of the persecution of Christians. So if the situation were to be reversed - you grant Muslims in Christian states the same rights that Christians have in Muslim states - there is no room for complaint.
There is a serious problem here: I have been very shocked by the way Islam is preached in many Mosques. It seems our Muslim fellow citizens are not interested in controlling extremism, so we need to give them a hand. Perhaps it is time to licenses and control all Mosques, and license and control all preachers. Perhaps there should also be an 'authorised version' of the Koran, prepared by a committee of experts and printed like the Bible.
I suggest you go on YouTube and watch 'Undercover Mosque' and 'Undercover Mosque revisited'.