Islam
Australian Letters
Old cabby’s tale Stephen Rommei’s London cabby story (Diary, 7 June) reminded me of catching a cab one cold night…
Witness to a stoning
Islam knows it is under siege – and the fear makes it more brutal
City of a thousand and one nights
Ali A. Allawi on the fluctuating fortunes of Iraq’s fabled capital
Letters
Chapter and verse on Islam Sir: Irshad Manji’s generally very sensible article on ‘Reclaiming Islam’ (29 March) suggests using the…
Reclaiming Islam
Can Islam be reconciled with free expression? The answer is yes
Main currents of history
The clue is in the title: this is not about the blue-grey-green wet stuff that covers 70 per cent of…
High Life
This Christmas our thoughts need to be with our fellow Christians who are being threatened in the Bible lands. No…
It’s a tough life when you wear a burka. Believe me, I know
I dressed up in a burka to wander around the streets of Canterbury recently, to see what level of Islamophobic…
The Spectator’s Notes
We are not allowed to know any details about the Muslim woman, charged with intimidating a witness, who has been…
The power of the word
The recorder of early Jewish history has two sources of evidence. One is the Bible. Its centrality was brought home…
At cross purposes
Justin Cartwright is famously a fan of John Updike — and here he seems to owe a definite debt to…
High life
Gstaad I’ve met Stephen Fry twice in my life, both times long ago. The first time at a dinner given…
Forget ‘militant’ atheists. Fight the real fanatics
It’s August, and you are a journalist stuck in the office without an idea in your head. What to write?…
The good Iranian
If President Hassan Rouhani is anything like his mentor, peace has another chance
The latest brilliant idea over at Channel 4
It is very lucky for the BBC that Channel 4 exists. Whatever imbecilic, supposedly attention-grabbing trash the BBC commissions, there will…
