Tag Archive 'Prisons'

The nature of Islam

Bookworm on Dec 01 2008 | Filed under: Islam, Muslim violence

Charles Martel left a comment to an earlier post about Islam’s core nature:
I used to ask myself how Allah is served by the grotesque torture of non-Muslims. How is the supreme deity gratified or honored by the sadistic disfigurement and dismantling of his creations?
Then I came to my senses and thumbed through my copy of [...]

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Man bites dog? Dog bites man?

Bookworm on Oct 14 2008 | Filed under: Iraq, Military

We all know that in the news world, “man bites dog” gets the front page, while “dog bites man” is ignored.  In a twisted way, then, one could say that the wall-to-wall Abu Ghraib coverage reflected the media’s horror that the American military had morphed from honor to dishonor.  (Or we could be realistic and [...]

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