The forgotten massacre By Robert Fisk, Saturday 15 September 2012 The memories remain, of course. The man who lost his family in an earlier massacre, only to watch the young men of Chatila lined up after the new killings and marched off to death. But – like the muck piled on the garbage tip …
Category: The Middle East
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Sep 16 2012
A gentle strength that transcends
My Take: It’s time for Islamophobic evangelicals to choose By Brian McLaren, September 15th, 2012 I was raised as an evangelical Christian in America, and any discussion of Christian-Jewish-Muslim relations around the world must include the phenomenon of American Islamophobia, for which large sectors of evangelical Christianity in America serve as a greenhouse. At …
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Sep 16 2012
I keep sighing
Here we go again: Islamophobia and protests By Mohamed el Dahshan, September 12, 2012 “I demand the expulsion of diaspora Copts from Egypt,” said a placard held by a young man in jeans and a T-shirt at the U.S. embassy protest here in Cairo yesterday. On a day of absurdity and horror, this offered …
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Sep 12 2012
Whoever Bacile turns out to be
Hollywood of hate By Matt Duss, Wednesday, Sep 12, 2012 07:00 PM CDT Not since the Pamela Anderson-Tommy Lee honeymoon tape has a crappier film received so much attention. Having watched the trailer for “The Innocence of Muslims,” it seems to me that the best possible response would be a new episode of “Mystery …
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Sep 12 2012
Politics and religion don’t mix
The provocateurs know politics and religion don’t mix By Robert Fisk, Thursday 13 September 2012 So another internet clever-clogs sets the Middle East on fire: Prophet cartoons, then Koranic book-burning, now a video of robed ‘terrorists’ and a fake desert. The Western-Christian version of al-Qaida then goes into hiding (an essential requisite for publicity) …
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Sep 12 2012
Voice from an impostor?
The Lord is watching Dear editor: This letter is for the evangelicals, those who have accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, adhering to the New Testament as their source for moral and ethical guidance. Let me ask you a question. How can you continue to be a Democrat? The 2012 Democratic National Convention didn’t …
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Sep 06 2012
Naked on the national stage
[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09cEwnivdr0[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09cEwnivdr0 In caving on Jerusalem, Dems pulled back the curtain on the lobby By Philip Weiss, September 6, 2012 Last night was an amazing moment at the Democratic National Convention; for an instant, we saw the Israel lobby naked on the national stage. When party bosses stuffed the phrase, “Jerusalem is and will remain …
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