A dangerous situation: the percentage of urban Iraqis living in slums has skyrocketed from under 20%Â 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 Jewish character” of the state:
- Israel Mulls Deporting Migrant Kids (Al-Jazeera)
“’Yo, we’re against Muslims, not each other man,’ someone in the crowd yells” …
- Man Mistaken for Muslim Draws Confrontation at Mosque Protest (Wall Street Journal)
… but in “the heart of the U.S. military machine …religious tolerance is part of what it means to be American”:
- At Pentagon, A Lesson in Tolerance N.Y. Mosque Debate Should Heed (Washington Post)
“The wrecking ball they’re wielding is not merely pounding Park51 …, but is demolishing America’s already frail support for” a war to nation-build in a country “whose most conspicuous asset besides opium is actual mosques”:
- How Fox Betrayed Petraeus (New York Times)