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Weekend Contention: There is an irreducible element of religion and science in philosophy.
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In a three part series, I ramble about dynamics of change in Islamic law:
1. Normative Pluralism
2. Ifta’a, Ijtihad and Social Customs
3. Grundnorm, a cosmological mythcomments / criticism welcome.
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The brain, Blitt would be advised to understand, is a complex machine whose operating principles we know something about. When presented with A and B in close spatial or temporal proximity, the mind naturally and effortlessly associates the two. Obama=Osama is an easy association to produce via simple transmogrification. Flag burning=unpatriotic=un-American=un-Christian=Muslim is child’s play for the cortex. Learning by association is so basic a mechanism that living beings are jam-packed with it — ask any dog the next time you see it salivating to a tone of a bell. There is no getting around the fact that the very association Blitt helplessly confessed he didn’t intend to create was made indelibly for us, by him.
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Prostitution in the Islamic nation of Pakistan, once relegated to dark alleys and small red-light districts, is now seeping into many neighborhoods of country’s urban centers.
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Saudi Anthropologist advocates removal of sword from Saudi Flag.