CrossTalk on Tolerance: Burqa Catfight

Ha ha ha. Who said Soviet propaganda techniques were out of fashion? Whilst I despise most of the behaviour of masculine people, and feel sick at violence and training people to kill, I know ill-motivated hypocrisy when I see a full length advert on Soldiers of Conscience, featuring only persons serving in the US military. [...]

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Airport body scanners violate Islamic law?

First, it is true body scanning might not detect all threats. But it does detect a significant class of realistic threats, which are not feasibly detected by other means. Second, despite political flannel, it is obvious that even excellent intelligence work, which after all would no doubt require extraordinarily invasive access to private data, cannot [...]

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