Category: Islam
Dear editor:
As I write this, the dust of Tuesday’s election has not yet settled. Either our nation’s lurch towards full-blown fascism continues unabated, replete with swastikas and flag-waving, cross-burning white supremacy, and out-in-the-open Christianist, anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant bigotry. Or perhaps – and hope springs eternal – reasonable voters have turned out in numbers that shout “our rights shall not be denied!”
My friend Mike Nunn is fond of reminding us we live in strange times. Indeed we do. Ever vigilant … [more]
Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2018/11/05/this-and-that/
This guerrilla endorsement (of an unnamed Arkansas progressive) was submitted the evening of October 1st or 2nd, and published this morning, October 8, in the Sentinel Record. Except for capitalizing “legislature” in the third sentence, they printed it exactly as submitted, which means I got away with mocking holier-than-thou state senator Jason Rapert’s “monumental erection” (of the Ten Commandments)… Ha!
And now we wait for responses from regressive, christianist fanatics completely retreated from reality…
— Monsieur Jacques d’Nalgar, Lundi … [more]
Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2018/09/30/weaponized-bibles/
Dear editor,
One final observation, one final broadside against our balmy Benghazi! bellowers… It is exceedingly curious that they fixate their wrath only upon the 9-11 of 2012, when four white Americans died in the violent anarchy of a civil war that we actively participated in. No matter that it also killed tens of thousands of Libyans. Libyans were neither white nor Christian. To navel-gazing Americans, their deaths were inconsequential.
Curious that the 9-11 of 2001 is barely mentioned any … [more]
Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2018/07/22/which-9-11/
Selections from a recent Facebook conversation. Names have been changed to protect the innocent, the willfully ignorant, the woefully beguiled, and the morally repugnant (see fundie #5). Due to the branching nature of such conversations on social media, this is stitched together from various, sometimes parallel/simultaneous narratives and is therefore only a linear approximation of a non-linear medium. Grammar and spelling have been only rarely altered so as to preserve the intellectual intensity and profundity (and inanity) of the comments … [more]
Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2018/05/28/suffering-fools/
Support for Morgan
Sentinel Record Letter to the Editor, Sunday, January 28, 2018
Dear editor:
This is my response to the Muslim, Mahmoud El-Yousseph’s letter (Sunday, Jan. 21) which was highly critical of Jan Morgan, owner of the Gun Cave Indoor Firing Range. Mrs. Morgan has declared her business a “Muslim free zone,” which made the national news in 2014.
Mr. El-Yousseph called this a cheap publicity stunt to help her to get more support for her running … [more]
Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2018/01/28/response-to-the-muslim/
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: ‘Trump is where he is because of his appeal to racism’
By Donald McRae, Friday 8 December 2017 13.26 EST
Like all people my age I find the passage of time so startling,” Kareem Abdul-Jabbar says with a quiet smile. The 70-year-old remains the highest points-scorer in the history of the NBA and, having won six championships and been picked for a record 19 All-Star Games, he is regarded widely as being second only to Michael … [more]
Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2017/12/08/we-all-have-so-much-work-to-do/
- Filed under Christianity, Culture, Egypt, Foreign Policy, History, Iraq, Islam, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, The Middle East
November 20, 2017
Invention of the Mizrahim
By Susan Abulhawa, 20 Sept 2017
The State of Israel was conceived at the turn of the 20th century in Eastern Europe by a group of elite European Jews who launched a movement called Zionism that sought to establish a physical nation state exclusive to Jews. It was a typical settler colonial enterprise, complete with the narrative of a divine mandate and a non-existent or savage indigenous population, central to which was the myth … [more]
Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2017/11/20/memory-is-stubborn/
