Sep 23 2012
Don’t let extremists determine we are in a ‘clash of civilizations’ By Khaled Diab, Sep.23, 2012 11:35 AM Karl Marx once said that history repeats itself: first as tragedy, then as farce. The riots and Iranian fatwa calling for the death of Salman Rushdie which forced the British-Kashmiri author into hiding for 13 years, …
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Sep 23 2012
The persecution of John Kiriakou By Peter Van Buren, 23 Sep 2012 12:35 Here is what military briefers like to call BLUF, the Bottom Line Up Front: no one except John Kiriakou is being held accountable for America’s torture policy. And John Kiriakou didn’t torture anyone, he just blew the whistle on it. A …
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Sep 16 2012
Peace Be Upon You By William Saletan, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012, at 4:57 PM ET Dear Muslims, Christians, Hindus, and Jews, You’re living in the age of the Internet. Your religion will be mocked, and the mockery will find its way to you. Get over it. If you don’t, what’s happening this week will …
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Sep 16 2012
Guantanamo prisoner’s tragic letter By John Knefel, Sunday, Sep 16, 2012 09:00 AM CDT Adnan Latif was found dead in his cell on September 10, 2012, just a day before the eleventh anniversary of 9/11. He was 32. Latif, a Yemeni citizen, had been detained at Guantanamo Bay for over a decade, despite a …
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Sep 16 2012
The forgotten massacre By Robert Fisk, Saturday 15 September 2012 The memories remain, of course. The man who lost his family in an earlier massacre, only to watch the young men of Chatila lined up after the new killings and marched off to death. But – like the muck piled on the garbage tip …
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Sep 16 2012
My Take: It’s time for Islamophobic evangelicals to choose By Brian McLaren, September 15th, 2012 I was raised as an evangelical Christian in America, and any discussion of Christian-Jewish-Muslim relations around the world must include the phenomenon of American Islamophobia, for which large sectors of evangelical Christianity in America serve as a greenhouse. At …
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Sep 16 2012
Here we go again: Islamophobia and protests By Mohamed el Dahshan, September 12, 2012 “I demand the expulsion of diaspora Copts from Egypt,” said a placard held by a young man in jeans and a T-shirt at the U.S. embassy protest here in Cairo yesterday. On a day of absurdity and horror, this offered …
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