When I was a child, I read and read the Arabian Nights, and loved the storiesabout Scheherezade, Ali Baba, Al-Ahdin, the Djinn in the bottle and others equally fantastic more than anything else which I read; yet, strange to tell, I never once embraced Islam orwas even tempted so to do. That's what...

Check this out: http://arts.independent.co.uk/film/news/article3201577.ece After 500 years, the strategy remains the same: boycott a cultural product to make it the most popular thing since sliced bread. And now we have another example: with the release of Pullman's Golden Compass , the Catholic...

Check this out: http://arts.independent.co.uk/film/news/article3201577.ece After 500 years, the strategy remains the same: boycott a cultural product to make it the most popular thing since sliced bread. And now we have another example: with the release of Pullman's Golden Compass , the Catholic...

Interesting article in the British Independent . Of course, Protestantism has its own charlatans, from pedlars of prosperity doctrine to those who fly first-class round the world and stop at the best hotels to lecture the rest of us on -- ahem -- world poverty and exploitation; but we do try to...