The attempt to make Nelson Mandela respectable is an ongoing effort of Western government spokesmen and the Western media. He wasn’t respectable in the business circles of twentieth-century New York or Atlanta, or inside the Beltway of Washington, D.C. He wasn’t respectable for many of the allies of the United States in the Cold War, […]
Archives for December 2013
Tunisian Rapper Jailed for 4 Months for Insulting the Police
Tunisia Live reports that: “Rapper Ala Yaacoubi, known by his stage name Weld el 15, turned himself in to a court in Hammamet today, where his 21-month prison sentence was reduced to four months.” He was sentenced for public indecency (because of his rap lyrics) and for insulting officers of the state (his most famous […]
Nelson Mandela, Iconic Leader for Jews of South Africa — and World
Nelson Mandela has become a beloved icon for all of South Africa. His death will surely be mourned by the Jewish community, with which he enjoyed an enduring bond. Click here for the rest of the article…
Muslim-American Tolkiens? Throne of Crescent Moon Author on Ethnic High Fantasy
Saladin Ahmad, a Muslim-American fantasy author from Dearborn, Michigan, is the author of the novel, Throne of the Crescent Moon. He spoke in Grand Rapids on the meaning of his background for his writing and imagination: He made the interesting point that much high fantasy is already ethnic, it is just from the unmarked ethnicity […]
Does Turkey’s PM Erdogan have a GOP-Style “Woman Problem”?
By Macidegül Batmaz We know that women have always been an easy target for politicians around the world. But there is no other country like Erdogan’s “New Turkey” where the political agenda is constantly shaped by discussions around the female body. Fort the last 11 years, it has been a common practice for the Prime […]
Souad Nawfal forced to flee after jihadist threats
A prominent female civilian activist has been forced to leave Syria because of threats to her life by hard-line jihadists, according to Arabiya television.
Jon Stewart: Fox seems a little Hysterical about Muslim-American Women Swimming
Jon Stewart has discovered the most horrible thing in the world on Fox Cable News. A YMCA in St. Paul Minnesota has set aside an hour for Somali Muslim women to swim at the pool, no men allowed. Actually gender-segregated swimming is quite common and is an accommodation also made for some Jewish Americans and […]
A Jewish Woman in Tunis, 1880: Photo of the Day
Jewish Woman in Tunis, c. 1880. via University of Chicago Middle East Photos For the history of Tunisian Jews see this site
Trashing the Law against warrantless GPS tracking: NSA nabs 5 Billion Phone location Records a Day
Remember when the National Security Agency officials maintained that they were “only” collecting “metadata” from your cell phones? What they meant by that was that they weren’t listening in on your calls, just noting who you call and when. I said at the time that ‘metadata’ on cell phones inevitably includes information on where you […]
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