Wednesday, August 18, 2004
There's a good article by Polly Toynbee in today's Guardian about the reluctance of the liberal Left to criticise Islam which, with the passing of the demos against Tony and George's Big Desert Adventure and with Outrage's demonstration against Palestine's homophobia, has been something I've been thinking about recently. However, Toynbee does go too far in praising Turkey as a model for what as an Islamic state should be, while it may be improving slightly it's treatment of it's sizeable Kurdish population is still extremely poor. (See Also: Kurdish Human Rights Project.)
