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Wednesday, June 30, 2010

i'm more of a buffy/angel fan myself...

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Al-Qaeda Calls Off Attack On Nation's Capitol To Spare Life Of 'Twilight' Author
Sunday, June 27, 2010

more on the ex-muslim industry

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In the current political and cultural climate it has become lucrative for many individuals from Muslim backgrounds (and the corresponding ca...
Sunday, June 20, 2010

umar ibrahim vadillo on gold and paper money

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I've read about Umar Ibrahim Vadillo for a while now but I've actually never seen or heard him until recently. He's a part of th...
Saturday, June 19, 2010

an analysis of the green book

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Both Ashaheed M. Muhammad's An Analysis of the Green Book and Why America Hates Qadhafi by Husayn Al-Kurdi give positive uncritical gl...

al franken on the supreme court

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As someone who would have been counted as 3/5 of a human being at the time, I've never really been a fan of the idea that the U.S. Const...

doubleplusungood

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Between the PATRIOT Act, Guantanamo, the widespread presence of camera phones and the vanishing (or non-existence) of privacy on the interne...
Thursday, June 17, 2010

imam zaid beyond petroleum

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In Beyond Petroleum Imam Zaid Shakir writes: [T]he Qur’an not only encourages a large degree of ecological consciousness and enlightened pr...

imam zaid shakir on marriage

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A number of other bloggers have linked to this piece under the name "The Ethics of Chivalry" but it appears on Zaid Shakir's o...
Tuesday, June 15, 2010

takin' it to the streets 2010

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Wow, I was actually blessed with being at the very first Takin' It to the Streets many years ago and it is amazing to think about how mu...

more on helen thomas

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Just a round-up. The first two items make the double-standard faced by Helen Thomas a bit more obvious by pointing out "acceptable bigo...

thoughts on the karate kid

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I just saw the remake of The Karate Kid the other night. Themes of globalization were front and center. An African-American single mother fr...
Sunday, June 13, 2010

thoughts on helen thomas

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Here is the exchange that got Helen Thomas into trouble and led to her "decision" to retire. Rabbi DAVID F. NESENOFF (Founder, Ra...
Friday, June 11, 2010

is lost racist? (part two)

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For some more analysis of the tv show Lost, this time through an Asian/Asian-American lens, you might want to check out Racialicious: Why I ...
Friday, June 04, 2010

on critical self-definition

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Washington Post Guest Voices: On Faith By Su'ad Abdul Khabeer Department of Anthropology, Princeton University Critical Self-Definition ...
Thursday, June 03, 2010

secret chords and qawalli

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Over at Killing the Buddha, there is an interesting piece called A Cold and a Broken "Hallelujah" about the Leonard Cohen song ...
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Wednesday, June 02, 2010

invincible - the emperor's clothes

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Boycott. Divest. Sanction Global BDS Movement
Tuesday, June 01, 2010

"drop the bomb"

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This solution had actually occured to me way back at the beginning of the Deepwater oil spill but then I thought "I...

"a gaffe is when a politician tells the truth" or why germany (and by extension, the rest of us) are in afghanistan, iraq, etc.

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A country like Germany with a heavy reliance on foreign trade, Koehler said, must know that "in emergencies military intervention is ne...
Monday, May 31, 2010

israel vs. freedom flotilla

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Al Jazeera: Deadly Israeli raid on aid fleet Al Jazeera: Previous activists killed by Israel Huffington Post: Israeli Raid: 'Bloody, Bun...
Sunday, May 30, 2010

it ain't my fault - mos def

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I have to wonder if there are solutions to the oil spill problem which are effective but aren't being tried because of the effect they w...