Newsflash: Obama not an Arab
October 15, 2008
A point driven home by Culture11’s Razib Khan:
“There are plenty of black Arabs of course, mostly in the Sudan and East Africa. Arab is a cultural-linguistic identity, so race is no bar. But the fact is that most Arabs are a Mediterranean looking folk as the process of Arabicization occurred mostly in the Near East and North Africa.”
The Iranian church’s (atheist) advocate
October 14, 2008
Cranmer discusses the efforts of British Foreign Secretary David Miliband to bring civil liberties to Iran’s Christians:
“It is bizarre indeed when a devout atheist puts the professing Christians to shame in demanding freedom of religion.”
