Thanksgiving
Thanks to all our readers, and this year we have enough regular readers whom we know that it would take too long to list all of you by name…. Thanks to all the contributors, anonymous and regular, who keep the posts flowing.
Month: November 2004
Ignorance and the Clash of Civilizations
It’s a good read, but nothing new. It’s written by a young’un, which is why I’m posting it.
Moslem wins National Award
All for architecture. Creation of creation is the reflection of the Divine.
On van Gogh
Now the Muslim community in the Netherlands has to pay the price, and the Muslim community around the world is once painted as religious fanatics…. Even if all the trees of the world were pens And all the oceans ink With many more oceans to fill them Even then the kalim of God could not be written For God is all-knowing and all-wise.
We don’t like it
No sirree, to torture Muslims is a bad thing. But I thought the current nominee for the Attorney General post thought it wasn’t.
Depressing Assessment of The Future of Peace in the Middle East
The Death of Arafat and the Myth of New Beginnings by Mark Levine in Juan Cole’s Blog Here is a graf: "In the weeks leading up to Palestinian President Yassir Arafat’s death American politicians and pundits have repeatedly called on the Palestinian people to use the opportunity of his passing to transform the intifada from a violent uprising into a non-violent, democratic and pragmatic program for achieving independence. This is very good advice, needless to say, except for one small problem: Palestinians have been trying to build such a movement for the last two decades, and the Israeli Government, IDF…