The execrable Kristof Terror incidents lead many Westerners to perceive Islam as inherently extremist, but I think that is too glib and simple-minded. […] One of the things I’ve learned in journalism is to beware of perceiving the world through simple narratives, because then new information is mindlessly plugged into those story lines. In my travels from Mauritania to Saudi Arabia, Pakistan to Indonesia, extremist Muslims have shared with me

“Pope’s climate decree to declare God a green socialist”. Peter Foster, Financial Post: A long time ago, the British satirical magazine Private Eye would occasionally append a humorous phonograph record. One such had a track that started “And now, The Pope speaks out on The Pill.” There followed the voice of one of Dr. Who’s Daleks declaring “I-am-the-Pope. You-will-obey.” A lot has happened to the Catholic Church since then, although

“Man jailed for a year after anti-Islam speech spurs emergency-alarm on Toronto subway train” on the day many western journalists censored the “offensive” cartoons that precipitated what some of them will allow was a “counterproductive” slaughter of a French satire periodical’s editorial staff. Ironically — or is it sadly / pathetically / tragically / surreally? — a “news” organization that did publish the cartoons? Al Jazeera. I’ve written at length