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Conspiracy Theories

As I’m writing this, I see someone else had a similar idea. So I’m watching CNN yesterday, Aug. 10, and I hear Christiane Amanpour say that many young Muslims in the West believe that 9/11, 7/7, and now the new attacks on planes were plots by Western governments in order to start a war with Islam. O Muslims in the West, are you stupid? Either: 1. The West has the wherewithal to plot such destructive events against their own people, including American and British Muslims, and the ability to keep it secret, but not so secret that we can’t figure…

100,000 down. How many more to go?

It seems that the number excludes Fallujah, and the count may actually be closer to 200,000 if Fallujah is included…. Iraq Body Count all of a sudden looks like a conservative website telling us how wonderful things are in Iraq.

Mehta on Mumbai

Suketu Mehta, author of the magnificent Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found, has a moving Op-Ed in the NYT about the Mumbai tragedies. Anna at Sepia Mutiny does a close reading of the text. Both are worth your time. Mumbai

One thought on “Help for Katrina survivors”

  1. May God help them:
    May God the Father bless us;
    may Christ take care of us;
    the Holy Ghost enlighten us all the days of our life.
    The Lord be our defender and keeper of body and soul,
    both now and for ever, to the ages of ages.
    (Æthelwold c 908-984)

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