Jul 25 2011
Anders Behring Breivik and the influence industry of rage By Eugene Robinson, Monday, July 25, 6:50 PM … The monster who admitted slaughtering at least 76 innocent victims in Norway was animated by the same blend of paranoia, xenophobia and alienation that fuels anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States. Yes, it could happen here.One …
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Jul 25 2011
The news coverage of the Norway mass-killings was fact-free conjecture By Charlie Brooker, Sunday 24 July 2011 22.07 BST … I went to bed in a terrible world and awoke inside a worse one. At the time of writing, details of the Norwegian atrocity are still emerging, although the identity of the perpetrator has now been …
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Jul 24 2011
Was I Unfair to The Atlantic? By Matt Barganier, July 24, 2011 … On Friday, I included The Atlantic in a list of sources that “ran with the unsubstantiated Muslim-terrorist angle” immediately after the attacks in Norway. I was referring to a they-hate-us-for-our-freedoms piece about an alleged 2010 plot by three Muslims against Norwegian targets. …
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Jul 21 2011
[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKNpICMvtGQ[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKNpICMvtGQ Brilliant song for the Arab Spring by one of my absolute favourite Egyptian bands Iskinderlla. I had the absolute pleasure of attending their concert one month before the revolution began in Cairo. – Samah Sabawi Samah also provided the following translation: They say … What do they say? They stole our country The …
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Jul 20 2011
Freedom and dignity are basic rights for all, even Palestinians By Randa Abdel-fattah, July 20, 2011 … There was an element of tragicomedy to the situation. Me, the daughter of a dispossessed Palestinian, dressed up as a settler in order to enter the Israeli city of Jaffa. With me was my American host, Sophie, who …
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Jul 17 2011
Jewish settlers are terrorising Palestinians, says Israeli general By Catrina Stewart in Jerusalem, Monday, 18 July 2011 … A senior Israeli army commander has warned that unchecked “Jewish terror” against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank threatens to plunge the territory into another conflict. In unusually outspoken comments, Major General Avi Mizrahi took aim …
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Jul 16 2011
Arabic for right-wingers By Justin Elliott, Thursday, Jun 16, 2011 21:01 ET … In a now infamous column, the writer Eliana Benador argued this week that Anthony Weiner (who is a Jew) may have converted to Islam but was hiding it from the world in accordance with the practice of “taqiyya.” “It is also important, …
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