Jun 26 2010
Interesting news about the unraveling of another darling of the Christian Fundamentalists, another “former Muslim extremist rescued by Jesus.” Following are a few excerpts from the June 23 article by Omar Sacirbey (Religion News Service) about Ergun Caner, president of Liberty University’s Baptist Theological Seminary (founded by the late/great Jerry Falwell). Incidentally (or not), Ergun’s brother Emir is president of …
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Jun 22 2010
Robert Fisk: “We are in love with the word, seduced by it, fixated by it, attacked by it, assaulted by it, raped by it, committed to it. It is love and sadism and death in one double syllable, the prime time-theme song, the opening of every television symphony, the headline of every page, a punctuation …
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Jun 21 2010
This is a nearly 10-minute video (thanks Marjorie). I know we’re not allowed to make such comparisons, but think of 1937 Guernica and the infamous Warsaw Ghetto from 1940 – 1943: http://www.theplainlanguagereview.com/2010/02/gaza-in-plain-language.html
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Jun 20 2010
Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Iraq crisis By Al Staggs, The Baptist Standard, March 3, 2003 Note: The following commentary was first published in the weekly newsjournal of Texas Baptists on the eve of the 2003 invasion of Iraq by US forces and smaller contingents from the UK, Australia, and Poland. I’ve been involved for …
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Jun 13 2010
http://www.flickr.com/photos/48893402@N02/ Thanks to a recent post from Alia Yunis (www.aliayunis.com), we now know more about the nine “Islamist extremists” who were murdered by Israeli commandos when they stormed the MV Mavi Marmara in international waters on May 31, 2010. Ever wonder where the next generation of terrorists will come from? Look into the faces …
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Jun 12 2010
Ralph Nader, another “American of Lebanese descent” comments on the departure of Helen Thomas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z_dcD5ebPQ During this interview, Paul Jay mentions his own opinion piece, titled “In Defense of Helen Thomas — On Apologizing to Apologists.” Here’s an important part of it: At any rate, we all know what’s going on here. The hyper-pro-Israel lobby, …
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Jun 12 2010
Fisk, in today’s piece on how a Canadian paper is diverting unwelcome attention on Israel’s latest brutality by reminding readers of Hitler and the Holocaust: As usual, we who speak out against the ruthlessness of Israel’s army – as, of course, we do against the Arabs – are anti-Semites. Remember the Holocaust. Remember Our Guilt. …
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