Problems: Legal, Flying, Media

islamoyankee

New understandings of the law: Not all Americans are equal.

Sepia Mutiny has a two articles (1, 2) on how laws are being created ad hoc for Muslims, or how old laws are being re-read to apply in situations that they weren’t meant to.

After London, flying has apparently become quite the ordeal. I have missed it so far, but travel season is coming up for me now.

Al-Muhajabah

Aziz at City of Brass

Sepia Mutiny

On a slightly lighter note, HijabMan has a wonderful post on how Muslim men do/don’t like a little naked Kate Moss with their prayers.

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From a blue stater to red staters

John Stewart said last week that being in New York he clearly knew nothing about terrorism and he was glad that the red staters were there to tell him about it…. Maybe you are content to think that, to write me off as a “liberal” — the dreaded “L” word — and rejoice that your candidate has triumphed over evil, immoral, anti-American, anti-family people like me.