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Social Justice

This issue is about social justice. Every Muslim in the US should be stepping up and saying until the community is fed, until parents can spend time with their family instead of working 20 hours a day for necessities, until the sick are cared for, until hope is only an aspiration and not a refuge for the desperate, until … Until then we cannot be bought with cheap talk of family values. Until then our faith with remain pointless. Until then the promise of America will remain unrealized. It’s not like there’s no precedent for this sort of talk in…

Radicalizing

Follow the link to Krugman’s piece. Down the memory hole is right. As Krugman says, the period leading up to the Iraq war was indeed a radicalizing experience. I think there were plenty of people like me who had a degree of faith in elite opinion, in the sensible people in nice suits, which I never will again. And those people hate the dirty fucking hippies more than ever for the simple crime of being correct. [From Radicalizing]

The system at work

On the surface, this is an important development, because if every Ayatollah now denounces the attacks on US and UK troops, it theoretically becomes easier to isolate those Shi’ah, and to a certain extent Sunnis, who do carry out attacks. I’m hopeful that the attacks in Sadr city will settle down, and more importantly that the city itself will be less likely to serve as a launching ground for others in Iraq.

2 thoughts on “Iranian sues for First Amendment Rights”

  1. Shirin Ebadi has no first amendment rights, or any other rights, under US law. However, her US-based publisher does. I’d give the lawsuit a good chance of success — you can’t find a plainer example of a prior restraint on speech.

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