RD Posting: Allah Made Me Funny
My latest piece at Religion Dispatches is a reflection on the film “Allah Made Me Funny.”
Year: 2008
Lawyers with Souls
It’s true. Rare, but true. These guys really need to be commended for what they are doing to protect civil liberties.
Full Battle Rattle
A friend of mine sent me this link about a movie that deals with the virtual Iraq we have created in the US. I’m serious. We have built an Iraq in the US to train our soldiers to go to Iraq. Fighting them over here so we can fight them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here.
Films of Hope
Better for your brain than the stuff you get for free in the New York Times.
What Happens When a Hindu Diety is Muslim?
At first some anger, and then nothing. It’s all good. Reminds me of the Farishta of Satanic Verses.
More on Dehumanizing Muslims
The Independent is reporting a game called “Muslim Massacre” gets you credit for killing Muslims. I shared the story of the Dayton mosque bombing with an adult education class last night and talked about how it had become acceptable to commit acts of violence against Muslims as witnessed by the fact that none of the major paper reported it. One woman asked me if it was a big bomb or a little bomb, because little bombs don’t deserve news coverage. My thought was that shouldn’t children being attacked be worthy of news, rather than a bomb? Fortunately, she was kind…
The Sad State of Jerusalem
The New York Times has an article about the tension in Jerusalem over the coincidence of the holidays of Eid and Rosh Hoshanna. It is a sad state of affairs that what we celebrate here exacerbates tensions there. The article quotes the poet Yehuda Amichai who says: The air over Jerusalem is saturated with prayers and dreams like the air over industrial cities. Now it seems like the toxic air of industrial cities with prayers of anger and ignorance. God help us all. The Globe and Mail has a more Muslim-centric perspective.