Category: Culture

If in the next breath

Beating Back ISIS By Martin Accad, February 20, 2015   Every few days, we seem to wake up to another massacre committed by ISIS. And these are, of course, only the ones that the media reports. ISIS, in reality, is committing massacres on a daily basis. We have become familiar with their crimes in Syria …

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We ought not to underrate its emotional appeal

  What ISIS Really Wants By Graeme Wood, March 2015   What is the Islamic State? Where did it come from, and what are its intentions? The simplicity of these questions can be deceiving, and few Western leaders seem to know the answers. In December, The New York Times published confidential comments by Major General …

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May we meet again as happy thieves in Paradise

Testament of Dom Christian de Chergé (opened on Pentecost Sunday, May 26, 1996)   Facing a GOODBYE … If it should happen one day — and it could be today — that I become a victim of the terrorism which now seems ready to engulf all the foreigners living in Algeria, I would like my …

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You may find yourself left behind

  Visitor from space By Donald Cunningham, February 7, 2015   Recently, our planet had a visitor from outer space, and I don’t mean Klaatu. It was what the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has labeled “2004 BL86,” a giant asteroid, passing just 745,000 miles from the Earth. That’s about three times the distance we …

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Ana bahibak ya jeddi

A Hasidic Prayer at a Palestinian Conference By Yakir Englander, 01/30/2015 5:59 pm EST   I grew up in Israel, born into an Ultra-Orthodox Hasidic Jewish family, convinced that all Arabs desired my destruction, and totally unprepared for any genuine encounter with Muslims. So, my decision to participate in the seventh annual conference of AMP …

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The border between satire and insult

Hook-nosed Jew vs. Mohammed cartoons: What’s the difference? By Shoshana Kordova, Jan. 21, 2015 11:50 AM   You won’t be surprised, in these post-Charlie Hebdo days, to hear that there’s a controversial cartoon going around the Internet. I’m not talking about a French cartoon, but a drawing from 2012 by Brazilian cartoonist Carlos Latuff illustrating …

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Peaceable revolution

America’s Dumbest Congressman says ‘Selma’ shows why we should fight ‘radical Islam’ By Hunter (Daily Kos staff), Fri Jan 23, 2015 at 09:53 AM PST   One of the ways Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) retains his lock on the title of America’s Dumbest Congressman is sheer persistence. Other candidates may pipe up with occasional entries …

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