Category Archives: politics

AlterNet Readers on Religion and Politics

AlterNet: Readers Write: The Growing Threat of Right-Wing Christians Does faith have a role in politics? AlterNet readers react to an article about right-wing Christians — and end up questioning the legitimacy of religion itself.

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Brin: The Decadence Excuse

Contrary Brin: The Decadence Excuse… The Song Sung by All Our Foes. comments on the anti-intellectual attitudes of bushite right wing america

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Reviews: ‘Illusions of identity’ by Kenan Malik | Prospect Magazine August 2006 issue 125

Reviews: ‘Illusions of identity’ by Kenan Malik | Prospect Magazine August 2006 issue 125

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Contrary Brin: An Interesting Guest Posting…

Contrary Brin: An Interesting Guest Posting…

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The Pig and the Box

Push the Third Button Twice: The Pig and the Box comes from ‘MCM’ in Victoria via Michael Geist and Stephen Downes. It’s about the despicable attempt by the Canadian Copyright Crew to introduce biased materials into the early education curriculum

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MT on BF

Mark Twain’s “The Late Benjamin Franklin”

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Bartholomew’s Notes on Religion

This post was linked to from an article in AlterNet on the “Christian” right wing tactic of publishing home addresses of oppponents.

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Hamdan vs. Rumsfeld

democracyarsenal.org on the Guantanamo ruling It’s time to really expose the falseness of the Bushites’ claims to represent what are claimed to be true American values (or, less likely, for them to show the world that they can truly accept … Continue reading

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Shadi Hamid in DemocracyArsenal

In democracyarsenal.org, Shadi Hamid makes a Note to Muslims objecting to a the claim by Zaid Shakir that his wish for an Islamic law is shared by “every Muslim who is honest”. Perhaps the wish for a Muslim country governed … Continue reading

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Iraq’s War Porn

AlterNet: War on Iraq: Iraq’s War Porn is powerfully written and has stimulated a thoughtful set of responses – well worth reading.

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Captain Copyright Caught Copying

This is amusing but also frightening. Our public institutions are being blackmailed into paying huge fees to an organization which is aggressively promoting a wrong understanding of ethics and the law mainly for the benefit of institutions which have no … Continue reading

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Flemming Rose on “Europe’s politics of victimology”

Jyllands Posten editor Flemming Rose defends himself re the mohammed cartoons which idiot Mullah Krekar decried as a “declaration of war” against Islam claiming without apprent irony about Western secularists that “as the losing side, they commit violence.” Unfortunately Rose … Continue reading

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AlterNet: How the Right Stole the ’60s (And Why We Should Get Them Back)

AlterNet: How the Right Stole the ’60s (And Why We Should Get Them Back)

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Senator John Kerry | The Right to Dissent

Senator John Kerry | The Right to Dissent was linked from David Brin

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AlterNet: The Slippery Slope of Self-Censorship

The Slippery Slope of Self-Censorship (found via AlterNet) is an article by David Morris of Minnesota which provides the best commentary yet on the Danish Cartoon Furor.

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MWU!: A Mountain Out of a Molehill Over Danish Cartoons

Mona Eltahawi’s article A Mountain Out of a Molehill Over Danish Cartoons provides a welcome breath of sanity.

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Writing for the Web: The Limits of Satire

Crawford Killlian blogs his Tyee article ‘The Limits of Satire’ on the Danish cartoon frenzy. I agree with most of what he says in general terms, but I am not sure that it fits the actual circumstances. The cartoons were … Continue reading

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The Offending Cartoons

Well, so far as I can tell from this image, the twelve cartoons (on the subject of fear of censorship and/or reprisals regarding representations of Mohammed) are as follows: One appears to be mocking the editor who commissioned the illustrations. … Continue reading

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French editor fired over cartoons

This BBC News article reports the firing of France Soir editor Jacques Lefranc by owner Raymond Lakah over the re-publication of cartoons originating in Denmark’s Jyllands-Posten which “gave offense” to Muslims. But if Mohammed is not to be despised, then … Continue reading

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Light in the Darkness

Light in the Darkness

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