Category: Islam

Better bashed, than embraced

Not all Republicans are Islamophobes but all Islamophobes are Republicans By Faheem Younus, 05:49 PM ET, 08/29/2012   The straw man of the famous post-Sept. 11 slogan, “Not every Muslim is a terrorist but every terrorist is a Muslim” was debunked by a 2005 FBI report. It showed that only 6 percent of terrorist attacks …

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Corpse-soaked no-man’s-land

Breivik was narcissistic and racist… but sane By Paul Vallely, Sunday 26 August 2012   So he was bad, not mad. It took an Oslo court 10 weeks to decide that the mass killer Anders Behring Breivik is sane and sentence him to 21 years in jail. Had he been declared insane he would have …

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Dangerous rightwing ideologies

The importance of the Anders Breivik verdict reaches beyond Norway By Tad Tietze, Friday 24 August 2012 15.00 EDT   There are many reasons to welcome the verdict in the trial of Anders Behring Breivik: that he is sane and legally responsible for the murder of 77 people – mostly members of the Norwegian Labour …

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The saving efficacy of killing

Batman, Neo-Nazis and the Good News of Jesus By Lee C. Camp, 08/08/2012  9:18 am   I am a conservative Christian. But I would be a fool to say that in public these days (though I suppose I have just made myself a fool), because that label has been so co-opted by those, so it …

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We are all victims

White Terrorism at Oak Creek: The Paranoid Style in American Violence By Juan Cole, 08/06/2012   We still have only rumors about Wade Michael Page, the gunman who walked into a Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin near Milwaukee and opened fire with a semi-automatic weapon (weapons that should be illegal) on men women and …

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Some powerfully stupid stuff

Five atheists who ruin it for everyone else By Ian Murphy, Saturday, Aug  4, 2012 09:01 AM CDT   Like a fresh-baked loaf of sanity resting on the window of human possibility, atheism is on the rise in the United States. Will this growing constituency become a formidable political force before global warming decimates civilization? …

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Quelle horreur!

Syrian war of lies and hypocrisy By Robert Fisk, Sunday 29 July 2012   Has there ever been a Middle Eastern war of such hypocrisy? A war of such cowardice and such mean morality, of such false rhetoric and such public humiliation? I’m not talking about the physical victims of the Syrian tragedy. I’m referring …

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