I’ve Moved!
November 20, 2008
So I’m sure that most people have noticed that the site has been offline for a few days. There’s a reason for that, which I will get to shortly. But first, let me just say this:
In fact, I am blogging at a new site I have just finished setting up: kennethhynek.net. A full explanation for the reasons behind the move can be found here
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That said, this is not the end of Time Immortal. My wife Grace has expressed interest in taking over blogging at this domain, and I am working to make sure that she gets set up here as soon as possible.
Also, my profound apologies for the modification to the site face; the move was not as seamless as I would have hoped, and many of the image files for this theme, and in the gallery, were corrupted during the course of their evacuation from my previous web host’s servers. Until such time as I have repaired them, I’ve put a clean-looking template in place of the previous one.
Update: for the purposes of further traffic shaping, new posts from kennethhynek.net will be excerpted below. Full articles can be read at the new blog.
Murdered by Islamism
January 30, 2008
I missed the anniversary of Hrant Dink’s murder by a few days, but was reminded of it by this article at GetReligion. A little over a year ago, Dink — a Turkish-Armenian journalist — was murdered in Turkey after publishing articles concerning the Armenian genocide.
His words were taken as an affront not only to Turkey, but to Islam, and a young man murdered Dink, a Christian, shortly after saying his (Islamic) Friday prayers. As I noted back then, a non-Muslim speaking critically of a majority-Islamic nation takes his life in his hands. And in this case, someone else decided to snatch that life away.
I still applaud Hrant Dink’s courage in refusing to back down on the issue of the Armenian slaughter — that was a dark period in history that Turkey has still not acknowledged for what it truly was (that is: genocide).
