Juan Cole on the Schiavo case. A must read.
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Happy Gregorian 2006
Happy Gregorian Year 2006! I’m working part-time at a bookstore – a nationally recognized company that shall remain nameless. It’s a good way to keep off the streets and out of trouble, and I figure the surest way to tapped by the NSA is to be an unemployed, overeducated Muslim male who is also an American citizen. In any event, I saw something today that really made me start off the new year right. A young hijabi, perhaps in her 20s, was reading a book on sex acts. I’m happy for her.
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.
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I’ll have to stop reading this blog if you lead me into agreeing with the likes of Juan Cole. : (
Seriously though, I think Cole could have made his point without the reference to the Taliban and Islamists — seems gratuitous to me. Like we don’t have enough trouble. Nice, acceptable secular examples would have sufficed.
Don’t misunderstand me — I think the Congress egregiously overreached here and I’ve already sent email to the two Democratic congressmen In Maryland that voted in favor of this travesty (both from perfectly safe seats, but what the hey!).