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We must look at how the Koran explicitly calls on Muslims to declare jihad

Despite the western world being under attack from ISIS and other Islamist/jihadist groups, the greatest threat to our survival comes from within. 

It is wrong to categorise water as a human right

Credit where it is due for Sarah Palin

Bad teachers at the root of maths problem

I READ recently that the failure rate for Project Maths students had halved.

Thu, 28 Oct, 2010

Big spender

I MUST concur with Mark Steele (Letters, October 12) when he says Transport Minister Noel Dempsey has “lost the plot”.

Thu, 14 Oct, 2010

Nothing racist, freakish or nuts about Tea Party

I WONDER if your columnist Steven King has any idea of just how offensive was his column (October 6) on the US Tea Party?

Wed, 13 Oct, 2010

Everything from depressing juvenile guff to anti-Catholic fanaticism

GIVEN that both Anthony Leavy and I have made clear our complete support for the visit of Queen Elizabeth in previous correspondence, I was surprised Declan Doyle should accuse us (Letters, July 24) of “stupid nationalism” as part of a long and completely unjustified diatribe against us.

Mon, 23 Aug, 2010

Cromwell was no figure of fantasy

ACCORDING to Declan Doyle (Letters, June 28), the Catholic Church made this a “far more oppressive society than the fantasy Oliver Cromwell ever did”.

Mon, 05 Jul, 2010

Let history rest and welcome the queen

IT seems Seamus Kearney (Letters, June 25) objects to Queen Elizabeth’s visit on the extraordinary grounds that it would coincide with the 150th anniversary of a visit paid here by Queen Victoria in 1861.

Tue, 29 Jun, 2010

Kenny did not exclude ‘liberals’ from FG

TAKING issue with a single statement made by Enda Kenny regarding his view of Ireland as a “Celtic Christian nation”, Maurice Dockrell (Letters, June 17) says there is no place in Kenny’s Fine Gael for “liberals” like himself.

Fri, 18 Jun, 2010

‘Ugly snootiness’ aimed only at US conservatives

YOUR columnist Steven King’s self-proclaimed pro-Americanism must be of a very shallow kind indeed if it can be undermined by the results of a single poll on which he largely based his column and which he later admitted was flawed in its methodolgy and execution (‘America’s political wingnuts create an ugly mood of fear and loathing’, April 14).

Mon, 26 Apr, 2010

If bishops didn’t know child abuse was wrong, why did they try so hard to hide it?

IN his letter (March 20), Jason FitzHarris seems to conflate what the Catholic Church “thinks” with what particular members of the clergy or hierarchy think or do.

Mon, 29 Mar, 2010

Canon law allows for dismissal of abusers

IN stating that “not reporting child abuse to the gardaí because of some canon law”, Jacqueline Cotter (Letters, March 17) shows her ignorance of the church code.

Fri, 19 Mar, 2010

Garda strike threat cannot be tolerated

I AGREE with Olivia O’Sullivan (Letters, December 8) when she says we expect the gardaí “to be there for us whenever we or our properties are under threat”. That is their job, to which they freely and willingly signed up.

Thu, 17 Dec, 2009

Condoms on a plate

I CANNOT let Linda Kelly’s knee-jerk response (‘When condoms are not on a plate’, Letters, September 12) to Sister Annunciate Forde go without comment.

Thu, 17 Sep, 2009

Women not misled on abortion trauma

SO Alison McCulloch (Letters, November 17) believes there is no connection between abortion and suicide risk.

Mon, 24 Nov, 2008

Not relevant

ACCORDING to Denis McMahon, (Letters, August 30), Senator Joe Biden was one of only two US senators to write a letter of support for a stamp commemorating Wexford-born Commodore John Barry.

Mon, 15 Sep, 2008

Admire the woman who stands by her principles

SINCE Sarah Palin has been chosen as John McCain’s running mate she has been subjected to the most personal and unwarranted attacks regarding her private life and family.

Tue, 09 Sep, 2008

No ordinary driver, no ordinary cargo

EDWARD HORGAN (Letters, August 8) is either naive or disingenuous in complaining about the sentencing of Salim Hamdan by a US military court, claiming he was “sentenced for providing material aid for terrorism” for “simply earning a living working as a driver for a foreign national in a foreign country”.

Wed, 20 Aug, 2008

Fanatics solely to blame for 9/11 terror attacks

PARDON me if I refrain from joining Michael Job (Letters, July 22) when he congratulates you for your “courage” in criticising certain aspects of US policy with respect to the Iraq war because no courage is required in so doing.

Fri, 01 Aug, 2008

Castro — a despot who enslaved an island

YOUR editorial on Castro was appalling (February 20). You say de Valera, Lemass, Lynch, Cosgrave, Haughey, FitzGerald, Reynolds and Bruton “all came and went, proposed policies, lost elections and changed their country for better or worse, and all the while Cuba’s leader of nearly half a century endured”.

Fri, 29 Feb, 2008

Catholic hierarchy unfairly castigated

FAR from a “kneejerk” reaction to anything critical of the Catholic Church, as alleged by Maurice Fitzgerald (Letters, February 13), I was responding (January 28) to a particular criticism levelled at the hierarchy by him.

Tue, 26 Feb, 2008

Leaning one way

DIARMAID FERRITER’S column headlined ‘American hero who threatens to wound a whole New generation’ (February 7) lambasted John McCain. Since when did you engage writers who could be from the Obama and Clinton campaigns to write opinion pieces?

Mon, 25 Feb, 2008

Joe Rea’s legacy

IN the week that Joe Rea died, you published a letter (July 4) complaining about a “divisive” remark he once made.

Thu, 12 Jul, 2007

Pope’s remarks were taken out of context

THE Pope quotes a 14th century Byzantine emperor whose city was under attack from Muslims as saying Islam is “spread by the sword”.

Wed, 20 Sep, 2006

Pope’s remarks were taken out of context

THE Pope quotes a 14th century Byzantine emperor whose city was under attack from Muslims as saying Islam is “spread by the sword”.

Wed, 20 Sep, 2006

Hezbollah tactics put civilians at risk

FINTAN LANE of Anti-War Ireland was rather disingenuous in his reply to Lola Cohen and Joy Wolfe (Irish Examiner letters, August 15).

Tue, 22 Aug, 2006

Church leaders have reason to be concerned

IN his column (Irish Examiner, April 22), Ryle Dwyer cannot “understand the mentality” of those who had difficulties with Fr Iggy O’Donovan’s invitation to Rev Michael Graham to concelebrate Mass on Easter Sunday.

Tue, 02 May, 2006

What’s immoral about the war on Saddam?

EDWARD HORGAN (‘Irish clergy’s silence on Iraq is inexcusable’ (Irish Examiner letters, February 14) presumes to lecture the Irish clergy for not preaching on the morality of the Iraq war.

Fri, 17 Feb, 2006

Spiritual basis of celibacy ignored

THE feature article by Fr Brian D’Arcy on priestly celibacy (Irish Examiner, January 27) was one of the most disingenuous I have ever read on that topic.

Mon, 06 Feb, 2006

Facing the facts

THOMAS HERLIHY (Irish Examiner letters, January 23) thinks the whole of Africa cannot support a cattle herd of 15 million.

Fri, 03 Feb, 2006

The facts of life and death in Iraq

IN response to Edward Horgan (Irish Examiner letters, December 22), I did not accuse him of misquoting the Lancet report of 100,000 deaths in Iraq in my letter published on December 1.

Wed, 04 Jan, 2006

Truth about Iraq not confined to one view

IN response to Edward Horgan’s self-righteous posturing (Irish Examiner letters, November 23), I am sure that Justice Minister Michael McDowell has more important things to do than to accept his challenge to jail him for speaking the “truth.”

Thu, 01 Dec, 2005

One crank doesn’t speak for all Christians

EVELYN CLEARY (Irish Examiner Letters, September 16) says she received an anonymous letter from a cowardly religious crank, criticising her for her views on abortion.

Thu, 22 Sep, 2005

When guilt is a fact, not a judgment

ALEX MARSHALL (Irish Examiner letters, September 5) makes a number of remarks to which I feel compelled to respond.

Mon, 12 Sep, 2005

Abortion guilt feelings are real

IN response to the critics of my letter (‘No such thing as safe abortion,’ Irish Examiner, August 19), I would like to make a number of points.

Mon, 05 Sep, 2005

No such thing as safe abortion

I WISH to take issue with Alex Marshall’s letter headlined ‘Why abortion should be legalised’ (Irish Examiner, August 13). He claims to have had thirty years experience of “reproductive health” programmes.

Fri, 19 Aug, 2005