The Drone Campaign
Why it must be expanded and defended.
Why it must be expanded and defended.
It’s a “ritual form of protest,” you see, and therefore “not a criminal act of violence.” That means the shoes won’t hurt as much. Absurd Britannia Alert: “Met allows Islamic protesters to throw shoes,” by David Leppard for The Sunday Times, April 11: SCOTLAND YARD has bowed to Islamic sensitivities…
A couple of years ago, I was a regular (read “daily”) reader of Andrew Sullivan’s The Daily Dish. Andrew, I believed, did a wonderful job blogging about conservatism, the war on terror and, of course, domestic politics.
Gradually, however, my surfing behavior changed. The reason was that while Andrew once was a tremendous representative of British [...]
These attacks “serve hegemonic interests at large” — that is, those of the U.S. and (no doubt) Israel, rather than the hegemonic interests of Iran that Hizballah wants to promote. “Hezbollah condemns deadly Karbala blast,” from PressTV, February 4: Lebanese Hezbollah Movement has strongly condemned the recent bomb attack in…
Getting the finger from a moderate Muslim.
This is three weeks old, but I just saw it, and it is worth examining. With Ali Eteraz I have had many exchanges in the past; you can judge for yourself about what they may or may not have revealed. In one of them, he stated feebly that peaceful Muslims…
Christian pacifist Stanley Hauerwas hopes to be as “toxic” as Obama’s radical mentor.