Bill Maher comes right out with it on CNN’s “Larry King Live”: The Tea Bag branch of the Republican Party just does not want an African American in the White House, and he implies that Newt Gingrich’s references to “the Kenyan” and “Luo tribesman” are just a roundabout way of saying the N word. (Breaking […]
US Drone Strikes Kill 15 in N. Waziristan
The Associated Press does an important story about an intensive drone strike campaign by the US military since September 2 in southern Afghanistan and in Pakistan’s North Waziristan that has left 60 persons dead, among them innocent civilians. On Tuesday alone, US drone attacks targeted suspected militants killed some 15 persons in the village of […]
Squirrel! – Stewart Skewers Media Islamophobia
Jon Stewart at the Daily Show has some fun with corporate media’s recent Islam obsession The funniest thing about the bit is his comparison of them to that dog in the animated film Up who can talk but who cannot help interrupting himself and shouting “Squirrel!” every time he espies one. Last week I saw […]
Amnesty: 30,000 Held in Iraq without Due Process;
Evidence of Abuse
Iraq holding thirty thousand prisoners without due process, often torturing or abusing them, according to Amnesty International
Schama: Islamophobia Recalls anti-Catholic, Anti-Jewish Nativism of America’s Past
Historian Simon Schama explains the outburst of anti-Muslim bigotry in contemporary US society on CNN. Yay for Schama and kudos to CNN for seeking out a historian’s view. I made a similar point last week in this post: “They used to burn Catholic Churches, now they Burn Mosques”
Turkey’s Constitutional Referendum Extends Range of Liberties
The question in the American blogosphere seems to be whether the referendum on Turkey’s constitutional changes was good for democracy or good for the sharia (the system of Muslim law, analogous to Roman Catholic canon law, against which the American right wing is now rallying). First of all, no one in Turkey is talking about […]
2 Dead in Afghan Protests Against American Quran-Burning Plans
The Pashtun-majority province of Logar just south of Kabul saw further protests on Sunday against American threats of Quran-burning, which turned deadly, leaving two dead and five wounded in Barki Barak district. This according to the Pajhwok News Agency. The crowd, estimated at 1,000, that gathered to protest the desecration of their holy book chanted […]
Stewart Nails Hannity Lying (Same as ‘Stewart Nails Hannity Breathing’)
Jon Stewart nails Sean Hannity for dishonestly showing only part of an Obama clip and distorting its meaning. (At 5:30 in). Actually, I think the other networks should sue Fox Cable News for dumping. There is an illegal practice of companies supporting a bad product by slashing its price below cost so as to flood […]
Afghans Demonstrate Against US Quran-Burning That Never Happened
Saturday witnessed a second wave of demonstrations against the threats by small American fundamentalist churches (especially the Dove Outreach group of some 50 in Gainesville, Fl.), to burn copies of the Muslim holy book, the Quran, on September 11. News that the planned bonfire of the scripture had been called off did not reach the […]
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