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01:14:46 pm on September 5, 2008 |
“How are thinktanks shaping the political agenda on Muslims in Britain?”
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12:33:53 pm on September 5, 2008 |
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12:05:18 am on September 4, 2008 |
This is how We spread human rights: Taleban suspects “held in dog pen”.
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01:11:11 pm on September 3, 2008 |
A discernable intellectual lineage can also be traced between some of [Auguste] Comte’s followers in Paris and some influential figures in the early Turkih nationalist movements who were exiled during the last years of the nineteenth century. These exiles’ ideas worked their way into the ideological framework of the CUP, whose motto “Union and Progress” not unconditionally was directly influenced by Comtean positivism. These ideas were not entirely new in the Ottoman context, however. They were part of the Ottoman tanzimatist trend that promoted administrative reforms based on the techniques of Western science.
– Taha Parla & Andrew Davidson, Corporatist Ideology in Kemalist Turkey: Progress or Order?, Syracuse University Press, 2004.
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12:41:25 pm on September 3, 2008 |
Human rights update from Afghanistan:
A family of four, including two children, have been killed in an overnight raid by international troops in Afghanistan, a police official and witnesses have said.
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12:33:49 pm on September 3, 2008 |
A mini-DPW: Obama’s attack on “oil from the Middle East” earns criticism from Scott MacLeod.
Is talk of “Arab money” fair game unlike, say, talk of “Jewish money”?
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11:01:37 am on September 3, 2008 |
Finally: A scientist recognises the true basis of Civilization Itself:
Engineering is a magnificent profession which serves as one of the bases of our civilization. It is constructed upon tried & true science of the first caliber. Standing upon the shoulders of the geniuses of the past some engineers with little knowledge outside of their domain, great sincerity, and ideological convictions of extra-rational origin, confuse their facility with the tools of their trade with a general ability to conquer any systematic body of knowledge. But of course the power of engineering is due to the centuries of accumulated wisdom on the part of scientists and engineers, not the acuity of any given individual.
(Note: the author of this post is an engineer as well as someone who is prone to writing about himself in the third person.)
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10:36:43 am on September 3, 2008 |
Pakistan’s prime minister has escaped an attempt on his life.
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10:29:20 am on September 3, 2008 |
I am sorry, but here is another link on Random House and Jewel of Madina. This time it is to Aziz’s shiny new Beliefnet blog.
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10:26:24 am on September 3, 2008 |
US District Judge Richard J. Leon has urged expressed concern that “the public - and the detainees themselves - will be locked out of the courtroom when evidence in the case is scrutinized for the first time”.
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10:17:57 am on September 3, 2008 |
‘The long imperial history of trying to manufacture consent in Iraq.’
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10:16:49 am on September 3, 2008 |
Bartholomew’s Notes on Religion points to a ‘far-right Christian-Muslim interfaith group’ in the US.
This reminded me a former neo-Nazi in the UK who converted to Islam and was quite active on Usenet groups. David (Abdul Aziz ibn) Myatt was, unsurprisingly, a strong advocate of groups like the Taliban and talked of Osama bin Laden as a ’shaykh’. He was also, from what I remember, quite well-read (Heidegger was a favourte source of his).
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09:55:38 am on September 3, 2008 |
Reject and denounce watch: Time for Sarah Palin to ‘reject and denouce’.
(Via Booman Tribune.)
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09:42:52 am on September 3, 2008 |
Iraq and the United States are still “far apart” on the issue of immunity for American troops.
Meanwhile, American officials are “worried” about Nouri al-Maliki.
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09:37:52 am on September 3, 2008 |
Dhimmitude in the English Premier League: Abu Dhabi group buys a top-flight English football club.
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02:09:07 am on September 3, 2008 |
You can watch Undercover Mosque: The Return online:
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5.I haven’t seen it yet, so thoughts later (perhaps).
(Via PP.)
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01:23:11 am on September 3, 2008 |
Why Obama–Biden could mean more of the same for Iraqis.
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01:22:19 am on September 3, 2008 |
One Kashmiri separatist leader was arrested last week, and faces two years in jail without charge. Two other leaders, also arrested recently, have been released.
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01:10:25 am on September 3, 2008 |
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01:09:02 am on September 3, 2008 |
The “God Games”.
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01:05:42 am on September 3, 2008 |
Do you suffer from “discomgoogolation”?
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10:15:19 pm on September 1, 2008 |
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10:03:17 pm on September 1, 2008 |
Somali converts to Christianity in say they “live in constant fear of persecution” from “fundamentalists”.
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09:56:05 pm on September 1, 2008 |
Nancy Pelosi’s comments on abortion upset the Catholic Church.
Slate discusses the Democratic Party’s new approach to abortion.
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09:48:48 pm on September 1, 2008 |
Defining evangelicals.
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09:38:03 pm on September 1, 2008 |
(Via The Cultural Anarchlyst.)
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09:33:58 pm on September 1, 2008 |
Yesterday was the first time* ever in my life I had to pray Fajr outside on the street, because the mosque was full.
*Hajj is an exceptional circumstance.
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09:30:56 pm on September 1, 2008 |
“Whose law must mercenaries obey?”
