Chip Goodyear, the head of Australia’s BHP Billton, the world’s largest mining company, has said that that Muslim world will be the next big emerging market after India and China. The head of the world’s largest mining company says the Muslim population stretching from North Africa to Pakistan and Kazakhstan is large, young and underemployed... Read More

Prester John was a fabulous Christian King of the East, famed for his power and wisdom. European Christendom could be saved from the vast ascendant armies of the Islamic world, if only word could be got to him to attack the Islamic empire from behind. Together the eastern Nestorian king John and Western knights would... Read More

The following is a guest post by Dr Waleed Kadous. It is an edited version of a speech given at the Art Gallery of New South Wales on its exhibition of the Nasser D. Khalili Collection called The Arts of Islam on 15th August, 2007. Hamza Yusuf Hanson, an American Islamic Scholar who studied Islam... Read More

We’ve written before about creationist spam king Harun Yahya and some of the weird stuff in his books. But nothing really compares to this: he has apparently applied to a Turkish court to have all WordPress blogs blocked across the entire country. And won. Here’s the official announcement to all WordPress.com users and there’s more... Read More