According to the Wikipedia Entry, we started to use the term “Ground Zero” for the World Trade Center site within hours of the 9/11 attacks: The adoption of this term by the mainstream North American media with reference to the…
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Either/or vs both/and (JRub strikes again)
If someone wrote and stood by a sentence like this one: Or is it just the Jewish element that has so paralyzed the liberal intelligentsia? …we’d all call for that someone’s head – wouldn’t we? Wouldn’t it be the basis…
Posted in Religion Tagged with: Cordoba House, Dan Senor, Ground Zero Mosque, Islamism, Islamophobia, NeoConservatism, Roger Cohen, Terror
Note on “9/11 Trutherism”
One conservative political goal seems to be to make acknowledgment of any U.S. co-responsibility for 9/11, of any even potential validity in Binladenist justifications for war, as inadmissible as “Trutherism” – which latter, informatively, stands as a classic “repressive de-sublimation,”…
Who “they” is
This ad from the Republican Trust PAC – over 100,000 views on YouTube – has been rejected by NBC and CBS for airing. Note the, um, not especially subtle symbolism used in the “starter” image: Though NBC spokesperson Jennifer Riley…
Posted in Politics, Religion Tagged with: Cordoba House, Cordoba Initiative, Ground Zero Mosque, Islamophobia, National Republican Trust PAC, Terror
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
Cost of Islamophobia 3 – Islamism and Modernity
John asked for me to address the following point: [N]otwithstanding all the sects and interpretations of Islam that evolved in the agrarian age, all the relatively peaceful local practises mediated by saints, shrines, and the pragmatic needs of Islamic societies,…
Stand up for faceless bureaucrats!
Here’s Peggy Noonan in the WSJ reaching high indignation and alarm, after reviewing a general lack of federal preparedness for the aftermath of a WMD attack: After the inspector general’s report, Paul McHale, a former Democratic congressman from Pennsylvania who…
In the general direction of Mecca…
At Contentions, John Podhoretz highlights one aspect of a Wall Street Journal op-ed by Dorothy Rabinowitz: “[T]the genuine innovation of Barack Obama’s presidency,” he summarizes, “is that it has imported much of its sense of the United States and its…
Posted in War Tagged with: Barack Obama, Islamism, Obama, Obamanauts, Rabinowitz, Radical Islam, Terror, War
Some perspective, please…
“Memory Foundations” – from Studio Daniel Liebeskind’s master site plan for the rebuilding of the World Trade Center Site
Posted in Art, Politics, Religion Tagged with: Cordoba House, Freedom Tower, Ground Zero Mosque, Terror, World Trade Center