Tag Archive 'Prisons'

Even self-styled victims have lines their fellow-travelers aren’t supposed to cross

on Apr 06 2010 | Filed under: Israel, Palestinians

We all know that Palestinians are victims, right?  That’s why they get a free pass for eating up billions of dollars in foreign aid without establishing viable communities, for launching tens of thousands of missiles aimed at Israeli civilians, and for periodically boarding Israeli buses or entering Israeli restaurants to get an up-close-and-personal approach to [...]

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The nature of Islam

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 [...]

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Man bites dog? Dog bites man?

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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