An Absurd Rite of Passage – Ta-Nehisi Coates – National – The Atlantic

OMFG! What the hell is wrong with people? Bombing trains? While we don’t know who has done this (the fact only first class cars were targeted leaves open the possibility of some sort of pseudo-Naxalite movement), I must say even I am inclined to believe that this is the work of some members of the Cult of Bin Laden – who, like the members of the Seas of David, have heard enough about the Qur’an to consider themselves Muslim. This is a horrible tragedy, and I pray for the deceased, and that the perpetrators truly understand God’s Justice. Technorati Tags:…

Shariah at the Kumback Café – NYTimes.com. Shariah is the new hot-button wedge issue, as radicalizing as abortion or gay marriage, seized on by Republicans to mobilize conservative Americans against the supposed “stealth jihad” of Muslims in the United States and against a Democratic president portrayed as oblivious to — or complicit with — the threat. Not since 9/11 has Islamophobia been at such a pitch in the United States.