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Speak the truth, brother!

Read “Five years after 9/11“ by Shahid Javed Burki, an editorial in The Dawn newspaper in Pakistan. Too bad so many Pakistanis are illiterate or do not read English. More editorials like this one in the Muslim world would be welcome. Shahed Amanullah posted Still Caught Between Two Hells on altmuslim.com.

How has it come to this?

It was only a matter of time that this would occur. This story was not picked up by the major newspapers or media sources, but it is a story that needs to be told. Seven illegal immigrants [six Pakistani and one Indian] were murdered by the Macedonian police in order for the Macedonian government to show that it was fighting with the West on the war on terror. In order to win some points, the Macedonian police fabricated evidence and executed 7 people whose only crime was to seek a better livlihood. This is not the first time that the…

Yet more reasons not to like Bernard Lewis

Read from my referrer here. This man is an Ottomanist who has become the most vocal interpreter of modern, Arab Islam in the US right now. It boggles the mind that he is considered an expert on the topics for which he is consulted – topics that affect whether or not we go to war. Even his medieval Arab history has been attacked as being slip shod and polemical.