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December 17th, 2009
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  8. I love how barmaid leads them down the garden path and they don’t see it or quite realize the obvious right in front of their faces.

  9. Hey she forgot one – why don’t they write an opinion piece for the Times or the Telegraph or the Guardian or the Independent or the New Statesman? Why don’t they do a Thought for the Day? Why don’t they get a job with the BBC’s ‘Ethics and Religion’ section? Why don’t they flog a series on ‘Christianity and Islam: Co-operating at Last’ or ‘Secularism: the Universal Foe’ to Radio 4? Why don’t they go on ‘Nightwaves’ to chat with Madeleine Bunting or Karen Armstrong? Why don’t they do a dialogue with Terry Eagleton?

  11. When I was at university in the 80’s, the Catholic Society, Islamic Society, Chritian Union etc were “Student Union Societies” with exactly the same status, funding and representation as Greenpeace, Volleyball Club and the Star Wars Appreciation Society. Which seems to me about right. There is no accounting for taste, but vigorously appreciated hobbies add to The Rich Tapestry of Life and are to be encouraged. But don’t give some of them extra money, a monopoly on respect or a veto on university policy.

  12. Not to mention the Queen being head of the Church of England, I’m sure she’d listen to at least one of them…

  19. This story should be of interest to JaMers. Iranian men wearing headscarves in solidarity with a political dissident who has been “humiliated” by being dressed as a female in public by the authorities. Where to start with this one? At the very least the idea that covering up of women in Iran shows them respect is holed below the water-line by this action.
    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/men-turn-tables-on-regime-by-donning-headscarves-and-dresses-1839889.html

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