A few months ago, I was harshly criticized for my criticism of Anne Applebaum’s so-called journalism. In Round 1, she made all sorts of absurd statements about Morocco. Round 2? Applebaum calls the arrest of Roman Polanski “outrageous,” states that he doesn’t deserve jail time because he has “paid for the crime in many, many […]
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Religion is Personal…No, REALLY.
An addendum to my last post, in case I wasn’t clear: This issue, for me, is not about Morocco or Muslim countries, as some of my readers apparently seem to think. When I say religion is personal, I mean religion is personal, and if your beliefs don’t affect me, then you can do whatever you […]
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Religion is Personal
In a post I wrote recently for Global Voices, I covered the efforts of the Mouvement Alternatif pour les Libertés Individuelles, a new Moroccan activist group that recently made headlines for eating in public during Ramadan. In effect, they broke the law; Article 222 of the Moroccan Penal Code stipulates that a Muslim who openly […]