Informed Comment - Part 1923

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 […]

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Turkey

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 […]

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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.

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Islamophobia

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 […]

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Jewish History

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

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Domestic Surveillance

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 […]

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Christianity

GOP: No Climate Change because, Bible

Opposing views points to the scary ignorance and bible-thumping to which GOP representatives in Congress are appealing in their genocidal stand against quick action on […]

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Best-Selling German Satirical Novel About Return of Hitler To Be Made Into Film

A best-selling German satirical novel about the return of Adolf Hitler to modern-day Germany is being adapted into a film. Click here for the rest […]

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