Harry's Place

by Joseph W
Anthony McRoy is a visiting lecturer at the Wales Evangelical School of Theology and the London School of Theology, giving lectures on Islam and Islamic-Christian relations. McRoy is particularly influential in evangelical Christian circles. He also performs a diplomatic role, and tries to bring evangelicals and Islamists together.
As well as being a lecturer, McRoy is also a frequent writer [...]

Protesters in the Barzeh section of the Syrian capital Damascus are beaten and put in the trunks of cars.
(Via EA WorldView)

Cross-posted from James Bloodworth at Obliged to Offend
“Bono”, as you were probably aware, is the lead singer of the band U2. His real name is Paul David Hewson. Aside from being the frontman of one of the world’s biggest rock bands, Mr Hewson also fancies himself as something of an activist, and can often be [...]

There is an assumption that anything that the United Nations does with respect to Israel will amount to an exercise in tossing Jews down a well. There’s a good reason for that suspicion.
Accordingly, Israel failed to engage with Goldstone. Perhaps they thought was that Israel would be condemned, whether or not they took part in the [...]

The Prevent review looked pretty good on paper. Its true test, as many have observed, is how the policy is implemented.
The problem with implementation is twofold.
First of all, a large number of public servants, both at central and local levels, have now developed close working relationships with groups which a supposedly “non violent extremists” (i.e. [...]

This is a cross post by Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) first came to widespread attention during the early stages of the uprising in Bahrain, where, on March 14, it deployed thousands of “PeninsulaShield Force” troops — drawn principally from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates — to aid the Sunni monarchy in [...]

I’ve been trying to wean myself from posting about the increasingly irrelevant George Galloway, but here’s just one more. (I can quit any time I want…)
IBN reports:
The revolutions sweeping the Arab world trash the myth that people living in the Islamic world have different needs, believes controversial Indian-origin author Salman Rushdie, who calls it an [...]

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports:
[Wisconsin] Supreme Court Justice Ann Walsh Bradley late Saturday accused fellow Justice David Prosser of putting her in a chokehold during a dispute in her office earlier this month.
“The facts are that I was demanding that he get out of my office and he put his hands around my neck in [...]

Nineteen year old Ryan Cleary, who was charged over various hacking attacks including on the webpage of the UK Serious Organized Crime Agency has been diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome.
I did not see that one coming.

Relatively little was said when Russian oligarchs who made their fortunes during the 1990s under less-than-clear circumstances started buying-up British football clubs, but in cases like Vladimir Romanov’s purchase of Heart of Midlothian FC, the fans were happy and the club’s fortunes turned around.
Players have gone off the rails or committed minor criminal offences, like [...]