Mystical Politics

A collection of interesting articles on the cartoon controversy: Tolerance Toward Intolerance . Ayaan Hirsi Ali: "Everyone is Afraid to...

Mahmood, of Mahmood's Den, gives a very interesting response to the cartoons. The main thing is the prohibition by Islam on representin...

Here are some examples of recent anti-semitic cartoons in the Saudi Press, courtesy of The Religious Policeman . And see this list of recen...

Andrew Sullivan on the caricatures of Muhammed (he has several good posts on this topic) - "Islamists and Muslims are in a violent upr...

This is unbelievable - Embassies in Syria Are Burned in Furor Over Prophet Cartoon . The Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus were bur...

I received a different perspective on the Hamas victory from a friend involved with the Coalition of Women for Peace group in Israel - Gila...

I got an e-mail from someone at Beliefnet, telling me about a new blog they're hosting - "Virtual Talmud." Here's the inf...

Wow, did you hear that there's kosher money and non-kosher money ? Heshy (of Heshy's House fame) just visited Israel and gave people...

Another voice on the Hamas victory - from Hanna Siniora, the Palestinian co-leader of IPCRI: For Hamas in opposition it was always easy to c...

The Hamas Charter details Hamas' enmity not only for the state of Israel and the Zionist movement, but also for the Jewish people. Some...

Despite the hopeful statements on the Hamas victory that I've been hearing from commentators on the radio and reading in the newspapers,...

As Amir Oren of Haaretz says: "Hamas' victory in the Palestinian elections is one of the most important events in the history of t...

Through Velveteen Rabbi I came across this blog by an Iranian, Hossein Derakhshan, now living in Toronto - Editor: Myself . It is a real re...

An interesting literary point is made in this Haaretz article on Shaul Mofaz's recent remarks about Iran - Thus shall it be done unto t...

I was kind of wondering why Ahmadinejad was in Syria - turns out he was meeting radical Palestinian chiefs in Syria . Iranian President Mahm...

An exploration of Ahmadinejad's apocalyptic theology: 'Divine mission' driving Iran's new leader . The most remarkable aspec...

In tomorrow's Times, David Brooks lays out the four bad solutions to the current standoff with Iran - Hating the Bomb . Given my own pol...

Another great Anne Applebaum column, this time on A Web Witness to Iranian Brutality . Link from Normblog , at this point my favorite Britis...

Mahmood has a round-up of Bahraini blogs (done weekly for Global Voices ), where he cites the responses of many Bahraini bloggers to the re...

If you want to be frightened about the possible consequences of Iran getting the bomb, read this article by the Harvard historian Niall Ferg...