Four questions to Will Kymlicka
While liberal values can be twisted to justify limiting civil rights, religious authorities may not replace civil law, argues Will Kymlicka. "The same forces that support ethnic politics within liberal democracy also operate over time to channel it in peaceful and democratic ways." [ more ]
"Critique & Humanism" takes a neighbourly view on Turkey; "dérive" doesn't play ball; "Reset" picks up the pieces after Veltroni's defeat; "Multitudes" joins the carnival; "The Hungarian Quarterly" finds the country in a gloomy mood; "Mittelweg 36" asks what's in a friendship; "Revista Crítica" reads epistemologies of the South; "Springerin" sees the provincial in the universal; "Kulturos barai" watches patriarchs fall; and "Cogito" casts a tragic hero for our times.
is a sociologist working at Goldsmiths University of London.
Rowan Williams and the Sharia controversy
When Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury and head of the Anglican Church, suggested that the British public consider "some accommodation" to Islamic law, the response was one of outrage. Yet in most cases his words were wildly misinterpreted, writes Stephen Jones. [more]
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