Friday, August 9, 2013

Richard Dawkins and Neil DeGrasse Tyson on Islam.

Richard Dawkins on Islam. Twitter, August 8, 2013.

All the world’s Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though.

Richard Dawkins Twitter.

Islam and the Left. Video. Cathy Areu  interviewed by Greg Gutfeld. The O’Reilly Factor. Fox News, August 9, 2013.

Richard Dawkins’ tweets on Islam are as rational as the rants of an extremist Muslim cleric. By Nesrine Malik. The Guardian, August 8, 2013.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson and the Myth of Islamic Anti-Science. By Arsalan Ibrahim.
The Daily Banter, August 12, 2010.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson: The Islamic Golden Age. Naming Rights. Video. uzomad, March 18, 2012. YouTube. Also here.




Neil DeGrasse Tyson: The Effect of Islam on Science in the Middle East, 9th-12th Centuries. Video. theinquisitor, February 8, 2007. YouTube.



How Al Qaeda Won the Arab Spring. By Marc Lynch.

The Gift. By Marc Lynch. Foreign Policy, August 8, 2013. Also here.

How the Arab Spring turned out to be a win for al Qaeda.

MOOC Fever Breaks. By Walter Russell Mead.

MOOC Fever Breaks. By Walter Russell Mead. Via Meadia, August 9, 2013.

Online education can be good or cheap, but not both. By Reihan Salam. Reuters, July 26, 2013.

Israel and the Gulf States: It’s Complicated. By Raphael Ahren.

Israel and the Gulf states: It’s complicated. By Raphael Ahren. The Times of Israel, August 9, 2013.

Exploiting Egypt’s Rape Culture for Political Gain. By Anna Lekas Miller.

Exploiting Egypt’s Rape Culture for Political Gain. By Anna Lekas Miller. The Nation, August 8, 2013.