Category: America

Pandering pays

 Interesting news about the unraveling of another darling of the Christian Fundamentalists, another “former Muslim extremist rescued by Jesus.” Following are a few excerpts from the June 23 article by Omar Sacirbey (Religion News Service) about Ergun Caner,  president of Liberty University’s Baptist Theological Seminary (founded by the late/great Jerry Falwell).  Incidentally (or not), Ergun’s brother Emir is president of …

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Leaving the circus

 Here’s an interesting take on the sudden departure of General Stanley McChrystal.  By Gordon Duff (a Marine Vietnam veteran in desperate need of a proofreader), published June 23 in Veterans Today: http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/06/23/gordon-duff-the-afghanistan-circus-mcchrystal-leaves-the-center-ring/ or http://bit.ly/dm6Nx2 or http://tinyurl.com/26xqy4d Did Pat Tillman reach out from the grave?

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Terror

 Robert Fisk:  “We are in love with the word, seduced by it, fixated by it, attacked by it, assaulted by it, raped by it, committed to it. It is love and sadism and death in one double syllable, the prime time-theme song, the opening of every television symphony, the headline of every page, a punctuation …

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The parallels to Hitler’s Germany are abundantly clear

Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Iraq crisis By Al Staggs, The Baptist Standard, March 3, 2003   Note:  The following commentary was first published in the weekly newsjournal of Texas Baptists on the eve of the 2003 invasion of Iraq by US forces and smaller contingents from the UK, Australia, and Poland. I’ve been involved for …

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Eyes of a dead man

  http://www.flickr.com/photos/48893402@N02/ Thanks to a recent post from Alia Yunis (www.aliayunis.com), we now know more about the nine “Islamist extremists” who were murdered by Israeli commandos when they stormed the  MV Mavi Marmara in international waters on May 31, 2010. Ever wonder where the next generation of terrorists will come from?  Look into the faces …

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Another curmudgeon comments

 Ralph Nader, another “American of Lebanese descent” comments on the departure of Helen Thomas:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z_dcD5ebPQ  During this interview, Paul Jay mentions his own opinion piece, titled “In Defense of Helen Thomas — On Apologizing to Apologists.”  Here’s an important part of it: At any rate, we all know what’s going on here. The hyper-pro-Israel lobby, …

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A pass, based on the past

 Fisk, in today’s piece on how a Canadian paper is diverting unwelcome attention on Israel’s latest brutality by reminding readers of Hitler and the Holocaust: As usual, we who speak out against the ruthlessness of Israel’s army – as, of course, we do against the Arabs – are anti-Semites. Remember the Holocaust. Remember Our Guilt. …

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