Oct 31 2013
Really?! A friend of mine wrote me early this morning, clearly angry about some outrageous Facebook flummery she had just been exposed to. Here’s how she started: So explain to me HOW the same birther folks can justify Ted Cruz being even considered for the Presidency? Don’t know if you looked at the “poll” on Tea …
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Oct 13 2013
Rand Paul’s strategic Islamophobia By Alex Pareene, Friday, Oct 11, 2013 12:57 PM CDT For normal Americans, the annual Values Voters Summit is an opportunity to take a look at the Republican Party and be appalled and amused at how vehemently anti-modernity and hysterically bigoted it remains despite basically all demographic trends. For Republican …
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Sep 07 2013
Iran, not Syria, is the West’s real target By Robert Fisk, Friday 30 August 2013 Before the stupidest Western war in the history of the modern world begins – I am, of course, referring to the attack on Syria that we all yet have to swallow – it might be as well to say that …
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Aug 08 2013
Richard Dawkins’ tweets on Islam are as rational as the rants of an extremist Muslim cleric By Nesrine Malik, Thursday 8 August 2013 13.13 EDT Today is the first day of Eid, the end of the fasting month of Ramadan. I took the day off, as Eid on your own at work without family …
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Aug 03 2013
Who is ‘Judaizing’ King David’s Tomb? By Nir Hasson, Aug. 3, 2013 5:12 AM A serious act of vandalism, a string of coincidences, and a decision by the Israel Antiquities Authority have combined to change the character of King David’s Tomb on Mt. Zion from a Muslim site into a synagogue. On Tuesday this …
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Jul 09 2013
The myth of the 1,400 year Sunni-Shia war By Murtaza Hussain, 09 Jul 2013 11:14 During the period of European rule over Rwanda, the Belgian colonial administrators of the territory accomplished an extraordinary feat in their subjugation of the local population – the deliberate manufacture of new ethnic divisions. By formulating ethnic categorisations based …
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May 31 2013
The prosperity gospel makes a mockery of Christianity By Andrew Brown, May 29, 2013 There is a very good programme on the “prosperity gospel” available on the Radio 4 website right now. Two things need saying about it. The first is that it proves, if anything could, the difficulty of defining religions in terms …
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