Dec 11 2015
The Christian Terror of Saint Augustine By Michael J. Brenner, December 11, 2015 At one time, Christians performed deeds little different from those of ISIS today – amazingly with the explicit blessing of Augustine of Hippo, a Catholic saint and an influential leader of the Church in Roman North Africa. There is a benefit …
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Dec 11 2015
The Libel Equating Islam With Terror By Michael J. Brenner, December 9, 2015 Americans are in the grip of a particular hysteria – once again. First it arrived in the panic provoked by the atrocity of 9/11. The symptoms of that Post-Traumatic Shock are still with us. Now it returns in the panic in …
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Dec 04 2015
Dear editor: I would like to comment on Donald Trump saying many Muslims in New Jersey were celebrating when the twin towers fell. The media was all over him for voicing this. I know for a fact that he is stating the truth, for the same was going on in Southfield, Mich. …
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Dec 04 2015
A Brief History of ISIS By Adam Hanieh, 12.3.15 In the wake of the November 13 attacks in Paris, much of the Left has linked the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) to the deepening imperialist violence in the Middle East. War and imperialism, on one side, and the growing …
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Nov 25 2015
Saudi Arabia, an ISIS That Has Made It By Kamel Daoud, Nov. 20, 2015 Black Daesh, white Daesh. The former slits throats, kills, stones, cuts off hands, destroys humanity’s common heritage and despises archaeology, women and non-Muslims. The latter is better dressed and neater but does the same things. The Islamic State; Saudi Arabia. …
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Nov 25 2015
How the United States helped create the Islamic State By Juan Cole, November 23 Did the Bush administration’s invasion of Iraq in 2003 lead to our current crisis over the Islamic State? The question has been posed baldly in this campaign season, as when a young woman at a campaign rally said to GOP …
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Nov 25 2015
The Politics of Thanksgiving Day By William Loren Katz, November 26, 2014 With family excitement building with the approach of Thanksgiving, you would never know November was Native American History Month. We would do well to recognize Native American resistance to colonialism on Thanksgiving instead of the myths about Native American dinner with Pilgrims. …
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