Ayaan Hirsi Ali spoke recently at the University of Wisconsin as a part of their Distinguished Lecture series. If you are not familiar with Ayaan Hirsi Ali she was born in Somalia, is a former Muslim, escaped an arranged marriage, became a member of Dutch Parliament and is an outspoken critic of Islam. She is [...]
This Week’s Topic
(Written by Jake!)
Welcome to the next edition of our popular and sometimes controversial series Open Forum Friday.
This week we continue the trend by asking for your thoughts about The Fort Hood, Texas military base killings purportedly committed by Major Nidal Malik Hasan, US Army.
This horrific event raises lots of questions. We’ve yet to [...]
Tehran’s running down the clock. To assume that they’re not a threat to the region or the world is ludicrous. Totalitarian regimes are by their very nature erratic. One could assume that they’re enriching uranium for energy use. It is, after all, every countries right to develop their own natural resources. Except the country in [...]
I am writing this to contribute to the Blog Against Theocracy 2008 campaign however it’s something that’s been sitting in my rough drafts folder for a while and I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to get this idea out there. To be honest I have read a number of articles over the weekend [...]