Both the Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez and the Pope have had to say: enough is enough....

Trevor Phillips of vaulting ambition has a problem with Muslims. His progressive instincts extend to West Indian causes and needs, but to others he is patronising and judgemental. This prejudice must rule him out as the next boss of the Commission for Equality & Human Rights, the body soon to subsume his current empire, the CRE.

And on Friday morning I drive past Ken Livingstone.....

Sir,

You keep writing Islam vs. the West (Islam and free speech: The Economist: 17th February 2005) knowing well that the former is the religion based on faith that is ethical, aesthetic, doctrinaire and inspirational and the latter that is geography, including a big chunk that is America.

A Pew poll taken early this year indicated that 60% of Americans pray once a day, 70% say that the American President must have strong religious beliefs and 61% favour tighter restrictions on a moral issue like abortion. Remember, George W Bush preferred to consult his “higher father” according to Bob Woodward when the latter asked whether the president had discussed the Iraq invasion with his father before making the decision to act.

Even in agnostic Britain there is a significant number of minority who fervently believe in Christian faith and look up to the Archbishop of Canterbury to lead the society on moral issues of paramount importance but, for obvious reasons, Rowan Williams is unable to do so.

How can you compare the faith with what is a geographical term?

There was a family in Cricklewood that had a pair of Great Danes. However one day they seemed to have lost their bearings, and when I opened my front door to go to

A letter to the editor of the New York Times reflecting on the invasion of Iraq, developments in the Muslim world and dysfunctionalities in the US.

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The Washington Post's editorial on 'The War in Pakistan'

The following letter in the New York Times caught my eye....