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Grist Magazine (Free subscription) | yesterday
by Umbra Fisk Courtesy AdbustersFor twenty years, the people behind Buy Nothing Day have been pleading with consumers to avoid the frenzy inherent in “Black Friday,” the no-holds-barred shop-o-rama that comes the day after Thanksgiving. This year, they’re ramping things up and calling for an all-out Wildcat Strike against the “capitalist consumption machine.” Socialists,...
Around Britain with a Paunch (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Cowie and I went on holiday to Essaourira at the beginning of September. We couldn't get out of Marrakesh fast enough. Within a day we had escaped the panic inducing heat and feral bustle in search of sun, sand, waves and fish. We're going to take you on a culinary journey of tagines, fresh fish and Moroccan imagination but only once we've set the scene with some photos. The first couple are from the...
The NEWS Watch (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Few weeks ago I starts thinking about this article and I find myself going way past what I really wants to write about. But I think I know exactly what's in my mind and I'll spread it as simply as it can be about the misconceptions and black mailing of Islam. For the past few weeks, I've seen on television lot of car bombing in the so-called Muslim World. Especially on Fridays (JUMMAH), which is the...
Palestinian Pundit (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
By Mohammed Omer "THE HAGUE, Nov 12 (IPS) - "We fast a long time," says Gaza graduate Mona Ismail, 23. "Only to break our fast on a piece of onion." She is speaking not of Ramadan but of the whole year, and year after year. She graduated in 'academic excellence in English language' from the Islamic University in Gaza. A prestigious course, and her dream. But now, there is no...
Religion Clause (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Europe News yesterday reports on difficulties faced by companies in France as they are increasingly asked to accommodate religious needs of Muslim employees. Many managers oppose employees wearing head scarves. Larger companies have set up prayer rooms. When significant numbers of employees seek to take time off for Eid, some companies face staffing problems. The most accepted kinds of accommodation...
National Review Online (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Majesty and importance Halfway through reading the article on Hillary Clinton’s workday in my Sunday Parade supplement, I suffered a nasty attack of saeva indignatio and had to stop reading. Looking at the thing now, with some soothing medication coursing through my veins, I’m surprised I even made it past the first section: September 15 6:45 p.m. Iftar Dinner Two hundred prominent Muslim-American...
The Merry Widow (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
2 Corinthians [14] Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? [15] And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? [16] And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will...
Islam in Action (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
The answer to this question is unequivocally no! 1.When do Muslims reciprocate? 2.Under Islam, Jesus is supposed to come back and destroy the cross . How can any Christian show respect to a religion that says that? Unfortunately some so called Christian leaders do not have the guts to face reality. Two of them are Pastor's Brian Mclaren, and Rick Warren. Pastor Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach...
Vlad Tepes (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Where a picnic is against the law Moroccan protests against the Ramadan fast provoke arrests and angry threats. By Erik German – GlobalPost Published: October 26, 2009 06:51 ET RABAT, Morocco — Death threats, police interrogations and a media firestorm aren’t typical upshots of a decision to enjoy an afternoon picnic. But that’s just what happened after a circle of [...]
Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
"The Gosaibi-Sanea soap opera is roiling the wealthy enclave here in Khobar, where the two families live in side-by-side estates. In one sign of the tension: For about two months, a cardboard box has been sitting in front of Mr. Sanea's estate, near a palm tree. It holds a court summons and documents from his in-laws that he has declined to accept, say lawyers who tried to serve the papers. On...
American Power (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
Dalia Mogahed, President Obama's hardline Islamic advisor, is in the news today in two pieces: Stephen Schwartz's, " What Do Muslims Want? A White House Adviser Defends Sharia ," and Cinnamon Stillwell's, " Does Sharia Law Promote Women’s Rights? " Here's this from the Schwartz essay: Dalia Mogahed has enjoyed a varied career. Born in Egypt, she was brought to America as a...
Maryam Namazie (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
‘I'm Betty- Ibtissame LACHGAR, rights activist in Morocco. You have maybe heard about our Movement for Defence of Individual Liberties (MALI) and the buzz in Ramadan? I really want to meet u.’ Maryam Namazie responds: Hi Betty, it would be wonderful to meet you. I’ll be sure to highlight the brilliant work you are doing there. It would be great if you could send a message to the November...
Tabloid Watch (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
The Daily Mail appears to have decided that it might need to stop picking on gays for a bit and so has turned its attention back to immigrants and Muslims. There's the ludicrous cat story , a Melanie Phillips article about the BNP and another story about numbers of immigrants . And then there's this rather oddly worded headline : 'The schools told' . What ? This story, like the cat one, has been stolen...
Daily Khabor @ Khabor.Com (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
[ Attachment(s) from Javed Iqbal Kaleem included below] Lost among news of wheelers and dealers of the world, the political barons who start wars but do not know how to stop them and the glamorous guys and dolls that grace the TV screens and the and the genius that have won the Nobel prize, was the small and insignificant news that the number of hungry souls in the world has surpassed 1.5 Billion mark....
A Church for Starving Artists (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
Still pondering the Eboo Patel talks last week. It will come in handy when I preach on Ruth next Sunday for reasons I'm still formulating. Does religious pluralism scare you? I took a religious pluralism class in seminary which resulted in the following reactions: Within myself: What if I fall in love with another religion? In a Christian seminary? Yikes. From others who are secular: Why would you...
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