Islam

‘Few opinion-shapers in the West feel outraged enough to condemn it, let alone grasp what is at stake in the Hariri tribunal’

‘Shame on you, ladies, for showing so little pride in your own hard-won Western freedoms’

Each new translation of Islam’s most sacred text offers fresh insights into its meaning. Yet there are still surprises in a book that is not only hard to read, but hard to know how to read, even for Muslims

Claims that Kosovo is a nest of radical Islam are baseless

‘A nuclear Iran is not just Israel’s problem. Stopping its programme is a paramount Western interest’

In the second in our series on religion and public life, a leading Dominican theologian argues that only a recovery of the Judeo-Christian tradition can enable Islam to find its place in Britain

Worlds at War: The 2,500-Year Struggle between East and West by Anthony Pagden

While America prepares for the next wave of terrorist attacks, Britain is sleepwalking. Yet it is not too late to avert disaster

Christianity is central to British identity, but its marginalisation has created a moral vacuum which radical Islam threatens to fill

‘Some artists have finally had the courage to admit that they are scared. But we need them to do better than that. We need people with a voice to show that they aren’t scared’