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Music, #Iran, and the #IranElection

With my passion for music, I’d be remiss in not pointing out some resources on Iranian music, especially with the conflict surrounding the Iranian election. This piece from Religion Dispatches is good, but I think it takes the “all politics is personal” a little too far. It’s not always about the music. Hawg Blawg is always excellent, and Talk Islam has some work as well. Andrew Sullivan is running an intermittent series called “Outing Iran” that includes a lot of music.

It’s not torture

if you don’t mean it. Does that mean no one actually commits a crime if they do without meaning to? I suppose that’s how this administration is going to avoid war crimes charges. We didn’t mean to kill civilians wholesale. We didn’t mean to violate the 1st and 4th amendments. We didn’t mean to torture people. I had no idea these guys were such anarchists. terror[ism][ists], torture