Category: Islam
Mona Eltahawy, in the Guardian: Tunisia: the first Arab revolution http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jan/16/tunisia-first-arab-revolution-ben-ali Also in the Guardian: Tunisia’s Jasmine revolution: A flower that could be crushed http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jan/17/tunisia-jasmine-revolution-editorial Lamis Andoni, in Al Jazeera: To the tyrants of the Arab world http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/01/2011115135046129936.html Note that this ends in poetry by Abul-Qasim al-Shabi in his poem To the Tyrants of the …
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The brutal truth about Tunisia By Robert Fisk Monday, 17 January 2011 The end of the age of dictators in the Arab world? Certainly they are shaking in their boots across the Middle East, the well-heeled sheiks and emirs, and the kings, including one very old one in Saudi Arabia and a young one in …
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Why do Jewish groups ignore Beck? By MJ Rosenberg, for Al Jazeera 23 Dec 2010 13:28 GMT … Has anyone noticed that right-wingers are really exercised about anti-Semitism these days except when it emanates from right-wingers? This week in Forbes, Abigail R. Esman pens an utterly over-the-top column called “World To Jews: Drop Dead.” Dead! She …
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The following was adapted from an e-mail conversation with my pastor, following a December 12, 2010 front-page article in the Sentinel Record describing how David Barton was “brought” to Hot Springs by another pastor (who just happens to be the new mayor’s husband) for a rah-rah rally/revival to “energize and educate” Tea Party Republicans who recently routed …
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By Leonard Pitts Jr. [email protected] … We are gathered here today to mourn the loss of America’s mind. It was last seen last month in Oklahoma. There, voters gave emphatic approval to a measure outlawing the use of Sharia law — a strict and often brutal interpretation of Islamic religious strictures — in state courts. …
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C100 Valley-Search The steed of this Valley is patience; without patience the wayfarer on this journey will reach nowhere and attain, no goal… Baha’u’llah (Persian) C101Valley-Love …The steed of this Valley is pain; and if there be no pain this journey will never end… Baha’u’llah (Persian) C102Valley-Knowledge …in the ocean he findeth a drop, in …
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