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2013-05-07T18:36:57-05:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

My piece on the Obama “apostasy” campaign

Last updated on: May 7, 2013 at 6:36 pm By Svend White

I have an article on the apostasy controversy at Religion Dispatches entitled "Who's smearing Obama?" Here's the first paragraph: It started when the Grey Lady ran an Op-Ed entitled “President Apostate?” on the 12th of May. The instantaneously controversial opinion piece by military historian and security analyst Edward N. Luttwak argued that, due to a technicality of Shari'a, Democratic nominee Barack Obama would be automatically and inexorably viewed as an infidel by Muslims everywhere, and thus targeted for elimination. President... Read more

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2013-05-07T18:36:57-05:00

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Danish embassy bombed in Islamabad

Last updated on: May 7, 2013 at 6:36 pm By Svend White

The Danish embassy in Islamabad was bombed today. No Danes were hurt, but several innocent Pakistanis lost their lives to this senseless savagery. Which makes sense in a grisly way, as throughout this ridiculous conflict (about which I've blogged at length) the victims of these so called defenses of Islam have and continue to be mostly Muslim. In fact, the organization most devastated by this terror attack an UNDP supported NGO that is, unlike these zealots, helping the people of... Read more

The Danish cartoons

2013-05-07T18:36:57-05:00

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Trapped in a restaurant full of drunks

Last updated on: May 7, 2013 at 6:36 pm By Svend White

It's 3 AM on a Saturday night, the bars have vomited their patrons, I have to a paper to finish urgently, and the only feasible venue to such activities that's still open in this small town is the trusty IHOP. I'm surrounded by foul mouthed, inebriated students at the moment. Someone shoot me. I'd forgotten how trite and incredibly boring drunken college student antics were. Time to invest in broadband at home. Read more

Legos

2013-05-07T18:36:57-05:00

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Supporting our troops

Last updated on: May 7, 2013 at 6:36 pm By Svend White

On this Memorial Day let us ponder a scandal which ought to drive war mongering, free market zealots on the Right and Pseudo Left to commit hari kari to salvage the little honor they have left. VA confirms 18 vets commit suicide every day In a stunning admission, top officials at the Veterans Health Administration confirmed that the agency’s own statistics show that an average of 126 veterans per week — 6,552 veterans per year — commit suicide, according to... Read more

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2013-05-07T18:36:57-05:00

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Technical problems

Last updated on: May 7, 2013 at 6:36 pm By Svend White

Not sure what happened with the titles of the last few posts. Maybe there's a bug in the latest release of ScribeFire. Read more

Legos

2013-05-07T18:36:57-05:00

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Aren’t Obama’s critics the ones who keep getting “duped”?

Last updated on: May 7, 2013 at 6:36 pm By Svend White

The ever insightful Jim Lobe injects some perspective into the vacuous Beltway debate about Obama's alleged naivete in being committed to talking rather than shooting first in the Middle East. LobeLog.com » Blog Archive » The Chalabsey Twins* Senators John McCain and Joseph Lieberman have been traveling around the country together repeatedly charging that Sen. Barack Obama’s foreign-policy ideas are “naive” and even “reckless.” But what they hope their audiences will forget is that both of them were taken in... Read more

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Washington and the Middle East

2013-05-07T18:36:57-05:00

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Alice Walker’s daughter lashes out at mother and her beliefs

Last updated on: May 7, 2013 at 6:36 pm By Svend White

Rebecca Walker, the daughter of feminist icon and author of The Color Purple Alice Walker, has publicly denounced her mother and her brand of feminism as hypocritical in a blistering and thought provoking article that, as if that's not enough to get attention, is also packed with dirty laundry. This really goes for the jugular. Some might retort that this article is more a personal attack than a critique. It's certainly personal and polemical–and I'm not trying to endorse anything... Read more

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2013-05-07T18:36:58-05:00

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Isaac Asimov as orientalist

Last updated on: May 7, 2013 at 6:36 pm By Svend White

Just thought I share with you sci-fi heads a stimulating observation I just came across on a Scandinavian blog concerning Isaac Asimov's Foundation series. Haven't read them in forever, so I have no idea whether this charge holds true against the s-f polymath (who's written on just about everything, though I've heard the claim that his encyclopedic knowledge of everything was marred by a conventional interpretative approach; being a pedestrian polymath is a problem this prematurely senile man would like... Read more

Legos

2013-05-07T18:36:58-05:00

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“You know you’re Muslim if…

Last updated on: May 7, 2013 at 6:36 pm By Svend White

…you find your Mormon neighbors' attitudes towards dating overly liberal." A few weeks before we set off for Oklahoma from Georgia, we had dinner with a nice Mormon family that lived in the other cul de sac of our development. We were swapping complaints about the permissiveness of American society and how popular culture relentlessly sexualizes children, when the father declared in outrage, "There'll be no children dating in our house! Nothing of the sort before she's 14. Not a... Read more

Legos

2013-05-07T18:36:58-05:00

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Give a man enough rope…

Last updated on: May 7, 2013 at 6:36 pm By Svend White

Is that roasted elephant I’m smelling? GOP cancer: Party could lose 20 more seats – John F. Harris and Josh Kraushaar – Politico.com For the past 18 months, ever since the 2006 elections, congressional Republicans have been like a hospital patient trying to convince visitors that he is not really all that sick: a bit under the weather; actually feel better than I sound; should be up and about any day; thanks for asking. Suddenly — belatedly — all pretense... Read more

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