Monday, April 14, 2008
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The open discussion they decided not to allow
The Guardian website calls Blogging the Qur’an a debate, but I’m not quite sure why. The two debaters, Ziauddin Sardar and Madeleine Bunting, are both godbotherers, and the comments function, previously completely disabled, remains compromised. So not a real debate, then, just a carefully mediated religious love-in.
You can comment by email, and I did (the response annoyed me so much I started this blog). It’s not proper, free debate though. Never mind, you can comment here instead.
There are rules. I'm using the Guardian’s own talk policy, plus one extra rule. Any remark which breaks the rules of civilised discourse will still be allowed, if it's a direct quotation from one of the world’s holy books. Otherwise, it’s hard to see how the debate could ever take place.
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