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March 2014

March 02, 2014

The not-so-strange resilience of Takfarism

Check out the article by Sheikh Habib Ali Al Jifri, "Why is there no serious...

November 2012

November 08, 2012

Why is Apple denying Americans information about their governnment’s drone attacks?

If you care about the health of American democracy and/or the large numbers of civilians...

July 2012

July 16, 2012

Are you doing your part to support the few media that support us?

If you didn't catch it, the leading progressive political magazine in America, The Nation, recently...

May 2011

May 19, 2011

Leave no arms merchant behind

Johann Hari has sharp piece on the OBL assassination and US foreign policy. Here's a...

September 2010

September 26, 2010

The folly of “enhanced interrogation”

...and most Neocon contributions to foreign policy and counterterrorism, for that matter. There's a very...

July 2009

July 23, 2009

The MSM’s new “Jihadism vs. McSufism” narrative

Br. Yahya Birtfrom across the pond was so kind as to inform me of a much better...

June 2009

June 03, 2009

Outsourcing human rights violations

Interesting commentary in the Washington Post about our government's continuing (and in some respects worsening)...

May 2009

May 06, 2009

Imam Zaid Shakir’s critique of “Obsession” in Tikkun

Imam Zaid Shakir has an insightful piece in the current issue of the progressive Jewish...

April 2009

April 04, 2009

Cheney as the Smirking Man

Political life after 9/11 often seems to imitate fiction. Increasingly, pulp fiction, alas.According to Seymour...

December 2008

December 08, 2008

The realities of fighting terror in Pakistan

The article below illustrates why I think Washington demands of Pakistan are often not only...

March 2008

March 12, 2008

Zbigniew Brzezinski on the GWOT idiocy

A snippet from a great op-ed by Zbigniew Brzezinski, whose name I need to learn...

January 2008

January 18, 2008

Juan Cole on ‘Combatting Muslim Extremism’

While I'm at it, a month earlier Juan Cole had wrote an astute assessment of...

January 18, 2008

The menace of ‘Islamofascism” in Europe, small potatoes beside the resurgence of real Fascism

There's an insightful article in the January 7, 2008 issue of The Nation by Gary...

June 2007

June 02, 2007

The eerie familiarity of Ehud Olmert’s problems

Doesn't this report about embattled Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert have an eerily familiar ring...

June 01, 2007

What about the threat from Christians in our midst?

Thought I'd share this inspired quip from Freedom Rider (emphasis added): The right wing are...

May 2007

May 28, 2007

Reflections on Memorial Day

On this Memorial Day, let us all stop for a moment to thank and pray...

March 2007

March 03, 2007

New from Monty Python: the Ministry of Silly Islamic Activists

Ever wonder how Monty Python would've discussed Islam and Muslims? Wonder no more. Behold the...

February 2007

February 03, 2007

WoPo online discussion of Wahhabism

You can submit questions ahead of time, or during the discussion. Should be interesting. Too...

November 2006

November 20, 2006

Tariq Ramadan and this adminstration’s need to dehumanize Muslims

L'affaire Tariq Ramadan lives on. [HT: American Leftist]. Why I'm Banned in the USA -...

November 11, 2006

Muslims, the new “natives”

Am writing a brief reaction paper to the chapter in Daniel Pals' (highly recommended) Eight...

November 08, 2006

The long overdue end to the Neocon nightmare

An inspired and inspiring polemic ("End of the Neo-Cons") has been loosed on the lunacy...

September 2006

September 22, 2006

Ralph Peters: “Islam-haters” are the real 5th column

Do read Ralph Peters' courageous declaration of war on the real cancer within the American...

September 15, 2006

July 2006

July 15, 2006

An unlikely “mole” breaks a terror cell in Canada

An exceedingly interesting twist in a recent case of an alleged Canadian terror cell being...

July 14, 2006

Unbridled savagery in Bombay

I have watched the reports of carnage from the savage train bombings in Bombay with...

June 2006

June 27, 2006

Fishy “Muslims” caught in the Seas of David

In a first in the post-9/11 political era, Muslim leaders in Miami have responded to...

June 24, 2006

Norm Solomon on selective outrage over barbarism

The ever insightful Norm Soloman on the consequences of the American media's spineless and selective...

May 2006

May 30, 2006

How about policing OUR arms shipments?

There's a shocking report in The Guardian about mind-bogglingly lax and irresponsible monitoring by the...

May 24, 2006

Understanding Muslim Language

My heart really goes out to journalists charged with the daunting task of getting to...