Martin Peretz, Editor-in-Chief of the New Republic, has offered an apology for one of two statements singled out yesterday by Nicolas Kristof in his New York Times column. Both statements appeared in the concluding paragraph of a post at Peretz’s…
#Ground Zero Mosque
Martin Peretz: “Muslim life is cheap, and I mean it.”
Posted in Politics Tagged with: 9/11, Ground Zero Mosque, Islam, Islamophobia, Martin Peretz, Nicolas Kristof, Othero, Terror
Bonfire of the Islamophobic Vanities – Updated after Breaking News
To mark 9/11 this Saturday, I plan to gather together printouts of certain blog posts, articles, and interviews, and burn them on my outdoor barbecue grill – specifically within a charcoal chimney – before fixing some dinner and getting back…
Got your shalom right here, Portnoy
Our old friend Howard is back to his usual… stuff today: Did you know that the word islam is a cognate of the Hebrew word shalom, meaning “peace”? Don’t berate yourself if you didn’t, because it isn’t true. This is…
Flamesem & Japesem (Actually Very Shaggy)
Echoing a theme already sounded, and sounded, and sounded again by Victor Davis Hanson, Jennifer Rubin, Charles Krauthammer, James Taranto, Jonah Goldberg, and every other uncultured non-elite intellectual who likes the polls and needs something to talk about other than…
Posted in International Relations, Politics, Religion Tagged with: Ground Zero Mosque, Islamophobia, Pamela "Pam" Geller
Stupid? Or Evil? (Fox Proves The Only Way to Fight Terrorism Is To Switch Off Fox)
John Stewart at his best – the debate at the end is a classic. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c The Parent Company Trap www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party h/t: …
Americans planning American building project in America
Life’s too short to address everything that’s comically irrelevant and confused in Andrew C. McCarthy’s “Ground Zero Thought Experiment,” a what-if? exercise that opens with the destruction by “Christian extremists” of the holiest site in Islam, and that therefore, considering…
Imam Feisal’s great service
Imam Feisal’s main mistake was to think we might be as good as we like to pretend we are, as good as the people who thought they could build and deserve a 1,776′ tall “Freedom Tower.” (What kitsch! The only…
Reasoning facsimile
Anyone who’s never tsarred a blog may be unaware of the endless flow of “comment spam” that is intercepted before it can ever appear in the threads. At this moment, for instance, there are 14 comments caught in the Spam…
The Dual Covenant Reaction (Ground Zero for Intolerance)
Observing my exasperation with some founding Zombie Contenders, and declining to accept my excuses for rudeness, a certain amphibious e-mailer asked me what, after all, I expected, considering that this blog was originally founded for refugees from “ground zero for intolerance.”…
A voice in the rightwing wilderness
I still await news of a single statement at National Review or The Weekly Standard, or a single comment from a major Republican politician or conservative pundit, acknowledging that anyone on the right may have gone a bit too far…
Posted in Politics, Religion Tagged with: Cordoba Initiative, Ground Zero Mosque, Idjitihad, Islam, Islamophobia