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Jun.04.2009
President Obama rides again! This time to Cairo, Egypt. The big question was, would he make it another apology tour? The last trip could have been summed up in Nirvana's words:
Everything is my faultI'll take all the blameI'll proceed from shame
- Nirvana, All Apologies - 1990
The "I", of...
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May.31.2009
The woman who wrote about Krishna transferred her attention and affections to Allah. Did it give her anything? Kamala Das Surayya, one of India's best-known poets who broke several barriers, is dead. She, a Hindu by birth, converted to Islam when she was 65. She will be buried like a Muslim. Her...
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May.12.2009
They are tut-tutting that the holy city will become a mini Dubai, a consumerist paradise. Yes, Dubai is about consumerism. So is religion. It is all about buying a bit of sawaab (reward for piety). The very fact that Saudi Arabia has a monarch whose lifestyle isn’t exactly an example of austerity...
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May.04.2009
By Matt Beynon Rees, on Global PostJERUSALEM — If you happen to be in the Holy Land next week and you have a beef with the pope, get to the back of the line.
In Nazareth, where Pope Benedict XVI will say Mass on May 14, the Islamic Movement accuses the pontiff of insulting Islam in a 2006 speech...
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Feb.17.2009
The Middle East Quarterly just published a timely article by Ms. Phyllis Chesler about the differences between dishonor killings and domestic violence. The article contains some interesting charts of cases in North America and Europe, though I can tell by eyeballing them that she's missed some of...
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Dec.07.2008
Eid al-Adha (the Festival of Sacrifice) is an Islamic religious festival commemorating the willingness of Ibrahim to sacrifice his son as an act of obedience to Allah. As Ibrahim was about to sacrifice his son, Allah intervened and instead provided a lamb as the sacrifice.
Eid al-Adha falls on...
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Dec.03.2008
Since the terrorist began their rampage in Mumbai a week ago, I have grown sick of reading about how India stands at the verge of Hindu-Muslim "sectarian" or "religious" violence. Every British and American editorial attempts to explain why US and EU cannot act again Pakistan by...
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Nov.20.2008
Commander of the Faithful is narrative history built on the life of a devout Arab jihadist, Abd el-Kader, who resisted French colonization of Algeria for fifteen years (1832-1847) and then was imprisoned in France for five years, only to become a cultural hero of sorts in France (and elsewhere in...
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Sep.30.2008
Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim holiday marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan and the beginning of the month of Shawwal, begins today in Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. Algeria and Egypt will begin marking the holiday tomorrow. The Islamic...
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Sep.19.2008
On the first day of Christmas, my dear lord said to me....yaddah, yaddah, yaddah...
We all know that song, or some parts of it anyway, and the feelings it evokes.
Imagine my feelings when last night I heard a presenter on ART say the words, “On the eighteenth day of Ramadan....”
I never consciously...
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