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, …
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Here’s an interesting take on the sudden departure of General Stanley McChrystal. By Gordon Duff (a Marine Vietnam veteran in desperate need of a proofreader), published June 23 in Veterans Today:
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/06/23/gordon-duff-the-afghanistan-circus-mcchrystal-leaves-the-center-ring/ or
http://bit.ly/dm6Nx2 or
http://tinyurl.com/26xqy4d
Did Pat Tillman reach…
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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…
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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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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 …
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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,…
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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…
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