Thursday, March 24, 2005

New Statesman - Inside Islam's ''terror schools'', 28th March 2005 William Dalrymple reports from NWFP (citing Kepel in the process)

Tuesday, March 22, 2005

Top marks for sect schools that shun the modern world - Times Online, 22 Mar 05 "The Exclusive Brethren, which also believes that members should not go to university because it is too “worldly”, runs 43 private schools educating 1,400 children ...

" ... Television, radio, mobile telephones, newspapers and going to places of entertainment are all banned. Computers and the internet are regarded as tools of the Devil."

Saturday, March 19, 2005

Aljazeera.Net - Ethiopia Jews battle Israeli prejudice non-tech, but interesting perspective on Falasha experience.
CWN 231, Seekers turn to cyberspace as gospel goes high-tech: "According to Pew Internet Research, nearly two-thirds of online Americans use the Internet for religious activities and 30 percent have searched for spiritual information on the Web.
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Friday, March 04, 2005

The New York Times > International > Asia Pacific > Chinese Censors and Web Users Match Wits: "For specialists in China's Internet controls, though, the gathering of legislators and top political leaders offers a chance to measure the state of the art of Web censorship ...

" ... "All of the big mistakes made in China since 1949 have had to do with a lack of information," said Guo Liang, an Internet expert at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing. "Lower levels of government have come to understand this, and I believe that since the SARS epidemic, upper levels may be beginning to understand this, too.""

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