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2013-05-07T18:47:16-05:00

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FBI: Muslim neighbors pose growing threat

Last updated on: May 7, 2013 at 6:47 pm By Svend White

The latest alarmist report from the MSM about the threat supposedly posed by American Muslims. FBI, security officials warn of growing threat from Islamic extremists ‘next door’ – USATODAY.com Plots by American-based Islamic terrorists with no direct ties to international terror networks form a large and growing threat to the American homeland, FBI and other security officials say. The problem I have is that I don’t know who to believe, as a lot of sensationalism and incompetence is muddying the... Read more

The Jihad against Islam

2013-05-07T18:47:16-05:00

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The resurrection of Willie Horton in the service of Islamophobia

Last updated on: May 7, 2013 at 6:47 pm By Svend White

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The Jihad against Islam

2013-05-07T18:47:16-05:00

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Washington wants race-based visa restrictions

Last updated on: May 7, 2013 at 6:47 pm By Svend White

The US is pushing for a new visa system for visitors from the United Kingdom that that allows for special screening of Britons of Pakistani background. U.S. Seeks Closing of Visa Loophole for Britons – New York Times American officials, citing the number of terror plots in Britain involving Britons with ties to Pakistan, expressed concern over the visa loophole. In recent months, the homeland security secretary, Michael Chertoff, has opened talks with the government here on how to curb... Read more

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2013-05-07T18:47:16-05:00

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Down-home American parallels with Muslim conspiracy theories

Last updated on: May 7, 2013 at 6:47 pm By Svend White

These days, Islamophobes dwell lovingly on every example of conspiracy theories among Muslims. Nearly a decade ago, Daniel Pipes devoted a whole book (The Hidden Hand: Middle East Fears of Conspiracy) to it. Sociologically indefensible, neocolonial junk scholarship like Ralph Patai’s The Arab Mind (whose best use, said Brian Whitaker in The Guardian, is as a "door stop"; see this review by Lee Smith in Slate, as well) is steadily making a comeback, especially among neocons. In an article I... Read more

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2013-05-07T18:47:16-05:00

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Curious geopolitical commentary in a book of Islamic philosophy

Last updated on: May 7, 2013 at 6:47 pm By Svend White

Speaking of Iran… I thought I’d share a curiously polemical observation that I came across in the foreword to Richard Joseph McCarthy’s otherwise invaluable annotated 1980 translation of Imam Al Ghazzali’s al-Munqidh min al-Dalal (Delieverance from Error), entitled Freedom and Fulfillment (recently reprinted by Fons Vitae). The editor of the book series (i.e., not the author), a Harvard professor, concluded the foreword as follows (emphasis added): The present volume was prepared for press during the weeks of the Islamic Revolution... Read more

Islamic Thought

2013-05-07T18:47:16-05:00

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Iran, where the fashion police are much more than a metaphor

Last updated on: May 7, 2013 at 6:47 pm By Svend White

The New York Times has an article on the surreal and utterly anachronisic phenomenon in Iran of "fashion police" who stop and even issue citations to women for inadequately modest dress. In Iran, Tactics of Fashion Police Raise Concerns – New York Times: Only days after Iran’s annual crackdown on immodest dress began in mid-April, with teams of police officers stopping women in major squares and subway stations to warn them about their attire, the security authorities came under fire.... Read more

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2013-05-07T18:47:16-05:00

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I admit it: I’m a SpongeBob SquarePants fan

Last updated on: May 7, 2013 at 6:47 pm By Svend White

I appear to be enjoying "SpongeBob SquarePants" considerably more than my one-year-old daughter. I actually don’t mind watching it at all, as it is full of in-jokes for grown-ups. Take its theme song, which says of SpongeBob, "Absorbent and yellow and porous is he". You have to appreciate such playful touches. So I’m a SpongeBob SquarePants fan. Is that so wrong? At this point, Raihana seems to enjoy Jerry Falwell’s favorite, "The Teletubbies", above all other shows. A show that... Read more

Culture & the Arts

2013-05-07T18:47:17-05:00

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A child’s hug

Last updated on: May 7, 2013 at 6:47 pm By Svend White

What is it about the hug of a small child that makes it so electric? It’s practically a high. Read more

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2013-05-07T18:47:17-05:00

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Shabana in Anthropology News

Last updated on: May 7, 2013 at 6:47 pm By Svend White

Guess what eerily familiar name I came across in the latest issue of the newsletter of the American Anthropology Association, Anthropology News? None other than my dear wife, who has penned a piece entitled "American Muslim Women on Campus". She’d mentioned it to me, but being senile I’d completely forgotten about it. Which is a rare benefit of a dodgy memory–all positive experiences are unexpected blessings, mana from Heaven. It’s a summary of her research on American Muslim women experiences... Read more

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2013-05-07T18:47:17-05:00

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NYT: Latino immigrants injecting new “Protestant” ways into American Catholicism

Last updated on: May 7, 2013 at 6:47 pm By Svend White

An interesting NYT article on the influence of Latino immigrants on Catholicism in the US. What I find fascinating is the fact that they should be introducing Pentecostal-style charismatic practices into American Catholic services, given that these are in essence US “exports” that have accompanied the spread of American-style Evangelicalism into the rest of the the Western Hemisphere. Study Says Hispanics Alter U.S. Catholicism – New York Times The influx of Hispanic immigrants to the United States is transforming the... Read more

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