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>>The real issue is not between Muslims and non-Muslims but between the moderates and extremists of all religions, be it Islam, Christianity or Judaism. Across all religions we have inadvertently allowed the ugly voices of the periphery to drown out the many voices of reason and common sense.
"Tortured"? Doesn't that break the NYT rule that such techniques are only referred to as "harsh interrogation techniques"? Has the policy changed? Or are we seeing an explicit decision by its editors to use different terms for exactly the same things when used by the US, rather than by the Nazis? Yo
Israel has no legal right to build any settlements anywhere on the West Bank. Asking them merely to freeze their construction as a good will gesture to help restart negotiations for the two-state solution was the minimum a US government trying to defuse Islamism and save Israel from itself could hav
Here's a man that stands up to most in his profession, a lot of the press, puts himself in a very vulnerable position and does what he reads in the bible: Stand up for the poor and powerless. It gives me a glimmer of hope for religion.
IEDs have been a huge challenge for them. Some are massive, their designs often changing in ways that continue to surprise the Canadian engineers. The IED has come to symbolize this war in the way the stinger missile symbolized the mujahideen's fight against the Russians.
I think Palin is now the GOP leader, and has now ousted even Rove. So these nuances are will be lost in the aftermath. This is a radical, cultural revolt that the elites have no way of controlling, and which they have encouraged at every turn.
The exception to open debate and intellectual honesty was and is anything to do with Israel, a subject where the debate at The New Republic is profoundly intellectually rigged, a fact that successive editors have simply had to accept or not take the job at all.
The cynicism of the neocons and Straussians in whipping up the masses they think are useful for the republic can occasionally, it appears, backfire. You have Yuval Levin sounding like Mark Levin on Adderall, while Kristol and Krauthammer and Rove suddenly try to put the brakes on the O'Donnell and T
But the South Asian storekeepers and so on of my childhood were all Muslims and supplied us with Indian groceries and the ritual-specific stuff we needed too: families like mine kept our culture and religion alive on the backs of decent, tolerant Muslims and I am more exercised about the anti-Muslim
My point was that America's democracy did not exonerate it from moral judgment in its conduct of foreign policy; and that the use of military force, directly or by proxy, had to obey universal moral norms that were not suddenly exempted because one side was a dictatorship and one a democracy.
I will, in fact, join, and I'll even cover the membership costs. I will require Josh, however, to pick up my monthly mortgage bill. Also, he will have to attend any and all Glenn Beck rallies in my stead.
Asked afterward why FreedomWorks was launching the effort by targeting Jews rather than African-Americans, whose absence from tea party events has been repeatedly cited by liberals as proof that the movement is racist, Kibbe said, "I think that there is a more open debate to be had (in the Jewish co
I also predict that a military attack on another Muslim country, Iran, will be the next outward expression of this new McCarthyism. And if Israel does it, it will be used by the neocon and Palinite right as a sign that Obama was too Muslim and too weak and too un-American to do it himself. The scrip
I can't at the moment think of another mainstream publication whose editor-in-chief has expressed similar sentiments -- whether about Muslims or blacks or Jews or women or any other class -- and not had to apologize or step down
There have been fewer more distressing experiences these past couple of months than witnessing the casual conflation of al Qaeda with American Muslims. It is obviously counter-productive in winning the war; but it is also a statement that even the most moderate of American Muslims are guilty until p