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…
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Americans planning… II – just a little crazy and dangerous
William Jacobson asks (at home blog here): Am I crazy and dangerous for pointing out [Frank] Rich’s intellectual laziness and predictability? Well, since you ask: Probably just a little, maybe not as dangerous as you’d like to be. Otherwise, you’re…
Posted in International Relations, Religion Tagged with: Afghanistan, Frank Rich, Islam, Islamophobia, Petraeus, William Jacobsen
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
Idjitihad through the looking glass…
Althouse: “Is the 9/11 Mosque a Publicity Stunt?” I entertained the notion that the idea was to propose it in order to stir up the reaction that was, in fact, stirred up. Some Americans would be outraged, including a subgroup…
The IdjitihadTM rolls on
The HotAirians are greatly impressed with an article by two Canadian Muslims, Tarek Fatah and Raheel Raza, whom Ed Morrissey describes as “Muslim columnists,” and who appoint themselves the representatives of 1.57 billion people, in a sentence that has only…
Posted in Religion Tagged with: Cordoba Initiative, Ground Zero Mosque, Idjitihad, Islam, Islamophobia, Terror
Flamesem and Japesem (The Gates of Conservative Ijtihad Are Closed!)
If a politician mocked the Lord’s Prayer in an attack on sexually abusive Priests, in a manner that insulted all Christians; if a politician sneered at the Kaddish while describing civilian casualties of Israeli military operations, insulting all Jews… The…
Posted in Politics, Religion Tagged with: Allen West, Conservatism, fundamentalism, Islam, Islamophobia, National Review, Tea Party
Conservatives vs Islam – reply to Oceanaris
oceanaris – author of a blog post strongly, even uncharitably criticized in our thread discussion – began his rebuttal via comment as follows: perhaps if one considers the repeated victory chants of hundreds of thousands of Muslims in Cairo or…
Posted in History, Politics, Religion, War Tagged with: Fadlallah, Ghazali, Islam, Islamophobia, Mutazalite, Qaradawi, Salafism, Syncretism, War
Flamesem & Japesem (while Laughing at the Ground)
There is no outcry because our popular culture is thoroughly rotten. There reaches a point where you have to say it: I believe in evil. Satan is laughing. * * * I, too, believe in evil… (Don’t say that three…
Posted in Politics, Religion Tagged with: Islam, Islamophobia, Olde Contentions, Satan, Steven Den Beste, Tea Party
From Somalia without love
[amazon-product]1439157316[/amazon-product]In the middle of a mostly sympathetic review of Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Nomad, Nicholas Kristof wondered parenthetically if the author’s family is dysfunctional “simply because its members never learned to bite their tongues and just say to one another: ‘I…
Posted in Books, International Relations, Religion Tagged with: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Islam, Islamophobia
Dialogue with John: Sacred Texts/Tests
John asks: If one is not actively trying to convert the other, professing good and evil, pushing revelation, is one having a political conversation? and can politics ever approximate an ideally-disinterested academic discussion, with its ways of mixing disinterested commentary…
Posted in International Relations, Politics, Religion, War Tagged with: Alexandre Kojève, Islam, Islamism, Islamophobia, Leo Strauss, Terror, War