Aug 03 2011
Ramadan: a guide for the perplexed By Mehdi Hasan, Wednesday 3 August 2011 20.00 BST … I crawled out of bed this morning at 2.45am, exhausted and bleary-eyed. I wolfed down two eggs, two slices of toast, a croissant, half a banana and several glasses of water. Then I went back to bed. I performed …
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Jul 31 2011
Behold what has become of our fourth estate (there is something pathetic about getting better news from the Comedy Channel than we can get from mainstream newspapers and television): [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLh78qiHl_M[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLh78qiHl_M
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Jul 31 2011
The Man Behind the Anti-Shariah Movement By Andrea Elliott, July 30, 2011 … NASHVILLE — Tennessee’s latest woes include high unemployment, continuing foreclosures and a battle over collective-bargaining rights for teachers. But when a Republican representative took the Statehouse floor during a recent hearing, he warned of a new threat to his constituents’ way of …
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Jul 28 2011
In his rage against Muslims, Norway’s killer was no loner By Seumas Milne, Thursday 28 July 2011 … It’s comforting, perhaps, to dismiss Anders Behring Breivik as nothing more than a psychotic loner. That was the view of the Conservative London mayor, Boris Johnson, among others. The Norwegian mass killer’s own lawyer has branded him …
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Jul 27 2011
Brevik: A terrorist who claims roots in crusader Christianity By Arthur Waskow, July 27, 2011 11:03 AM … Every major religious tradition on the planet has within it streaks of blood and hatred, even though its fabric as a whole is woven in compassion and justice. The question is: How do we acknowledge these bloody …
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Jul 27 2011
Why Breivik Was a Christian Terrorist By Mark Juergensmeyer, 7/27/11 12:20 PM ET … Many Christians cringe when Norwegian mass-murderer Anders Breivik is described as a “Christian terrorist.” But that is what he is. It is true that Breivik was much more concerned about politics and history than about scripture and religious belief. But much …
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Jul 27 2011
Norway’s corrective to our post 9/11 terror myth By Matthew Harwood, Tuesday 26 July 2011 21.30 BST … The first images of the destruction in Oslo’s city centre Friday were reminiscent of New York City’s, Madrid’s and London’s encounters with jihadist terrorism. But Oslo also looked eerily like Oklahoma City in 1995. And as the …
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