Category: Islam

Blighted by imperialism

Colonised and coloniser, empire’s poison infects us all By George Monbiot, Monday 8 October 2012 15.30 EDT   Over the gates of Auschwitz were the words “Work Makes You Free”. Over the gates of the Solovetsky camp in Lenin’s gulag: “Through Labour – Freedom!”. Over the gates of the Ngenya detention camp, run by the …

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Falafel is a gateway food

    Bachmann: ‘We Must Ban Falafel’ in School Lunches By The Daily Currant, Sep. 28, 2012   Minnesota Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann courted controversy today by claiming that falafel and other “jihadi foods” should be banned from school lunches in the United States. In an interview with local television station KSTP in Minneapolis, Bachmann explained that …

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The need to generalise

Why ‘they’ still don’t hate ‘us’ By Mark LeVine, 26 Sep 2012 08:07   I knew the title to my second book would be Why They Don’t Hate Us before the last embers of what had been the World Trade Center had cooled. Life in New York City was just beginning to reanimate after two …

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Flying Jihad Terror Babies invade America

A Conservative History of the United States By Jack Hitt, September 19, 2012   1500s: The American Revolutionary War begins: “The reason we fought  the revolution in the sixteenth century was to get away from that kind of  onerous crown.”—Rick Perry 1607: First welfare state collapses: “Jamestown colony, when it was  first founded as a …

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Reality is far more complex and nuanced

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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More in common than they think

The truth about Muhammad and Aisha By Myriam Francois-Cerrah, Monday 17 September 2012 09.00 EDT   Writing about Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, the Orientalist scholar W Montgomery Watt wrote: “Of all the world’s great men, none has been so much maligned as Muhammad.” His quote seems all the more poignant in light of the …

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Follow Him

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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