Month: August 2010

You catch more flies with “non-coercive intelligence interviewing” than you can with waterboarding: Guide Tells How Terrorism Suspect Became Informant (Washington Post) Sharing the archaic view that marriage conflicts with education, lawmakers move to address the problem by taking the right to marry away from young women 15-17, adults under Islamic law but not under […]

One very young Iraqi earned an American officer’s  fond respect … As U.S. troops Leave Iraq, an Officer Honors the Memory of a Young Interpreter (Washington Post) … but Iraqis have little confidence in politicians who “fight over positions and have no idea what we eat and drink and where we live”: As U.S. Withdraws, […]

“The last few weeks have seen an intense push by the Israeli right and their neocon enablers in the US to essentially ‘jam’ Obama into either attacking Iran or letting Israel do so;” Jeffrey Goldberg’s  Atlantic cover is Exhibit A: Iran Bomb ‘Not Imminent’ (Al-Jazeera) The “level of rhetoric has become so poisonous that we could end […]

Even as NYC Mayor Bloomberg offers to meet with the cabbie stabbed yesterday, and urges Americans not compromise “our faith in the freedoms that have sustained our great country for more that 200 years” … American Muslims Praise Mayor Bloomberg Over ‘No Compromise’ Speech (Examiner) … in yet another disturbing instance of flared tensions, a  drunkard, cursing,  […]

The eponymous Christian militia “Right Wing Extreme” providing private security to the incongruously-named Dove World Outreach Center on “International Burn a Quran Day” fits the Islamophobe stereotype well (almost too well): Pastor Says Armed Militia to Protect Church During Quran-Burning Event (CNN) One Palestinian women says, “Go ahead and make your political point, but for […]

The little boy was beaten at school and called a terrorist, but only months earlier “his mother had been killed in a roadside bombing by a real terrorist”: The Burden Of Being a Young American Muslim (Washington Post) Ismail Haniyeh’s declaration, “all Palestinian citizens must prevent all harm to all Christian churches on Palestinian land. […]

A dangerous situation: the percentage of urban Iraqis living in slums has skyrocketed from under 20%  before the American invasion to 53% today and unemployment is over 25%: What You Will Not Hear About Iraq (Counter Currents) The worst side of nationalism, and of nativism meet in a recent Israeli government effort to “preserve the […]

NOTES FROM THE IIIT CONFERENCE ON APPROACHING THE QUR’AN AND SUNNAH #19 [This is the nineteenth in a series of my notes on the International Institute of Islamic Thought conference on approaching the Qur’an and Sunnah held in Herndon, VA. These notes are raw material for an edited report I will write on the conference […]

NOTES FROM THE IIIT CONFERENCE ON APPROACHING THE QUR’AN AND SUNNAH #17 [This is the seventeenth in a series of my notes on the International Institute of Islamic Thought conference on approaching the Qur’an and Sunnah held in Herndon, VA. These notes are raw material for an edited report I will write on the conference […]