All the swimsuits and suicide belts might have been interesting to see, but it ain’t happening. There is, after all, no fun in Islam (the Ayatollah Khomeini said that). Sharia Alert: “Mideast: West Bank; Miss Palestine Pageant Cancelled,” from ANSAmed, December 21 (thanks to C. Cantoni): (ANSAmed) – RAMALLAH, DECEMBER…
On blatant display at Columbia U. Iran conference
Wouldn’t this be a golden opportunity for Western adherents of the true, peaceful Islam to explain publicly and fully exactly how and why the brutal and repressive Islamic Republic of Iran is not actually representative of Islam at all? Honest Ibe? Brave Ahmed? Dr. Bassiouni? Khaleel Mohammed? Mr. Schwartz? Anyone?…
Halal (left) and haram (right) There Is No Fun In Islam* Alert: “Makeup? It’s against Islam, Iran women told,” from AFP, December 3 (thanks to all who sent this in): TEHRAN: Women appearing in television programmes will not be allowed to wear make-up because it is against Islamic law,…
Antonio Gramsci once described the revolutionary temperament as a pessimism of the intellect and an optimism of the will. For the veterans of my radical generation, the balance was tipped when we sustained what seemed like irreparable injury to our sense of historical possibility. It was not even so much the feeling that the left [...]
