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Tag: Islam

Angela George [CC-BY-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
October 7, 2014 Locke

Tribal Solutions to Ben Affleck’s Dust-Up with Bill Maher over Islam

Or… Infidels Have No Place at the Table By now you’ve probably heard of or seen the clip of Ben Affleck angrily defending Islam

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February 24, 2014 Demosthenes

Karma’s Not a Bitch, Your Dogmas Are…

Every once in a while, I like to put on Chris Rock’s comedy special Bigger & Blacker. If you haven’t seen it, do so.

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May 23, 2013 Demosthenes

Adding Deeper Darkness to a Night Already Devoid of Stars

Human beings are violent. As a group. As a species. We are violent. There has never been a period where there is not some

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September 19, 2012 Demosthenes

Religions of the World According to Shit Happens

Or… In the USA, we make fun of every fucking religion & creed! I had a shirt in high school with a list of

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August 9, 2012 Locke

Redrawing the Middle East

I’ve been trying to get my mind around a 2006 article in the Armed Forces Journal that I recently came across. The post, entitled

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August 9, 2012 Locke

Ethnic Purity leads to Developmental Stagnation?

I was at an iftar recently and made a comment to my mother how it appeared as though other ethnic groups seemed to be

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July 20, 2012 Of cabbages and kings

Ramadan Mubarak to those who struggle

It’s about 4:30 am ET as I’m starting to write this post and I’m just finished with suhoor, the pre-dawn meal that Muslims eat

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April 23, 2012 Demosthenes

Arabic is not a Divine Language

Muslims are taught to say our prayers in Arabic in order to facilitate a level of camaraderie between people of different linguistic backgrounds and

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February 9, 2010 Demosthenes

Legislating National Identity

From Slate: http://slatest.slate.com/id/2244122/entry/8/ This concerns France’s recent attempts legislate its culture… banning the burqa, specifically. If this were done in the USA, I think

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a Turbah or Mohr from Qom, Iran. It shows a prayer to Fatimah, daughter of the Prophet of Islam, Muhammad, and mother of the third Shi'a Imam, Husayn ibn Ali. It reads: "Ya Fatima al-Zahra" which translates as: "Oh, Fatima, the Splendid One"
December 31, 2006 Correspondence

London – What’s the stone for?

Eid mubarak. There’s a mosque about a block away from my flat here in north London so I decided to go there for Eid

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