Category: America

People of the book

The true history of the Koran in America By Ted Widmer September 12, 2010 Nine years later, we are still haunted by Sept. 11, and in some ways it’s getting worse. All summer, a shrill debate over whether to build a mosque near the Ground Zero site was fueled by pundits on the right, who …

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More civilized?

Why does the US government think burning Qurans is less civilised than drone attacks on civilian populations?

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Ye have made it

And said unto them, It is written , My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves. (Matthew 21:13, Mark 11:17, and Luke 19:46)

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Madness

Did 9/11 make us all mad? Our memorial to the innocents who died nine years ago has been a holocaust of fire and blood . . .

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Brilliant

Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 1:57 PM Subject: Chas Freeman’s Brilliant Speech in Oslo TO: Distinguished Recipients FM: John Whitbeck Miraculously, almost instantly after I circulated the interview with Chas Freeman earlier today, one of my distinguished recipients sent me the text of his speech in Oslo this morning, to which I had referred in …

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Righteous anger

Barry Blitt’s cartoon in Frank Rich’s NYT opinion piece about the billionaires bankrolling the Tea Party.

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Hallowed?

Ground Zero’s Slave Graves By Jen Phillips, Wednesday August 25, 2010 4:32 PM PDT The outrage about the “ground zero mosque” has turned very ugly, as this video of this recent protest shows. People are calling Mohammed a pig. A New York City cab driver was stabbed today after his passenger asked him if he was …

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