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Too Many Mosques

It’s true. The ranking Republican member of Homeland Security says so. We need to infiltrate. But won’t that mean more radical Islamics? Then more infiltration. Then more radical Islamics! I don’t truly believe Republicans are consciously supporting Al-Qaeda. They just do whatever it takes to make sure Al-Qaeda wins, but they don’t know it. (h/t Pastor Dan) Technorati Tags: Islam in America

Link Dump

I did see Orhan Pamuk last night, and will be seeing Farid Esack tonight (I will post details of that talk soon.) I do, however, have a huge backlog of interesting links I want to dump on you, and they will come in spurts over the next few days.

Torture is Terror

The passage below is a problem I have been struggling to articulate. From Aziz: What is needed is a generalized principle under which both opposition to terrorism and opposition to torture can be articulated. From a religious perspective, muslims have been arguing (usually defensively) that terrorism (ie, hirabah) goes against Islamic teachings for quite some time – see my own ongoing articles on hirabah here on beliefnet and my earlier hirabah posts. Recently, several muslim organizations issued a joint statement against torture (to which I also signed). Many of the same religious arguments that are made can be applied equally…