Diverting an RAF flight to supply specially insulated tents to Erbil before winter would save thousands of lives
IS’s beheadings, forced conversions and jizya, plus the plight of the Yezidis – all illustrate the need.
Liberals have a different understanding of what these are than Conservatives – and a more shallow one, too.
Schools must be required to emphasise British values such as freedom of speech, freedom of religion, equality under the law – for Muslim and non Muslim alike.
The EU Habitats Directive and the Flood and Water Management Act have worsened the democratic deficit.
We need to plan for new sea defences in East Anglia and Southern England if tragic loss of life is to be avoided.
The bombing is personal for me. I used to live in Peshawar and counted many Pakistani Christians as my friends.
Martin Parsons has a PhD in Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations and has written a major academic book on this subject. Fifteen years ago, I had to negotiate with senior members of the Taliban. I was an aid worker in Afghanistan and needed their permission to set up a development project in a remote area they […]
Martin Parsons has a PhD in Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations and has written a major academic book on this subject. Since the decline of Socialism, the major ideological fault line in British politics, insofar as there has been one, has been between, on the one hand, conservativism and, on the other, various forms of liberalism […]
By Martin Parsons. A year ago it was clear that, despite the widely presumed promise of the Arab spring, 2011 had been a year in which sharia enforcement has both spread and intensified both in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world. This is part of a longer term pattern of increasing Islamisation that has […]
The Daily Telegraph has today published a rare interview with Afghan warlord Gulbaddin Hekmatyar. This interview potentially represents one of the most significant recent developments in Afghanistan. For several years I have argued that Hekmatyar and his Hezb-i-Islami faction represent a greater danger to peace in Afghanistan than the Taliban (see here and here). It […]
Martin Parsons is currently director of faculty of Britain’s newest sixth form college in Lowestoft, Suffolk. He has a PhD in Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations and has written a major academic book on this subject. He is currently writing a further book on Conservativism and Christianity and is a member of the parliamentary candidates list. […]
Martin Parsons is currently director of faculty of Britain’s newest sixth form college in Lowestoft, Suffolk. He has a PhD in Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations and has written a major academic book on this subject. He is currently writing a further book on Conservativism and Christianity and is a member of the parliamentary candidates list. […]
That’s certainly what we saw last year – and not just because of ISIS.