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Iranian Cleric Calls Israel a Cornered Cat
The Jerusalem Post today quotes Ayatollah Mahmoud Alavi, a senior cleric in Iran, as saying that Israel (which he calls “the Zionist regime” and “a cornered cat”) “will receive a crushing response from the Islamic Republic” if it tries to take out Iran’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Iran, Islam, Israel, Judaism, nuclear proliferation, peace, Politics, the middle east, war
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Heart of Darkness: Kill Them All?
I find the following recent comments of reporter Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times jarring: [I]t is just plain heartbreaking to be in modern, moderate Bahrain today and watch as a critical American ally uses tanks, troops, guns and clubs to … Continue reading
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Tagged evil paradises, freedom, Heart of Darkness, human rights, Islam, Joseph Conrad, protest, the middle east, Thomas Jefferson
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Abu Dhabi and Qatar Meet Frank Gehry and I.M. Pei: This Too Is Islamic Civilization?
A AAA+++ for effort. According to the New York Times today, the royal leadership of two tiny Muslim countries, Abu Dhabi and Qatar, seeing down the road a time when they’ll need to gather brains into their cisterns rather than oil, are turning … Continue reading
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Tagged abu dhabi, art, atheism, crossroads, God, Islam, Muslims, osama bin laden, qatar, the Enlightenment, the middle east
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Faust in the Middle East: I’ll Give You Oil Wells If You’ll Give Me Brain Drains
Here’s a little statistic buried in a long article at the ResetDOC (Dialogue on Civilizations) website on efforts to bring science to (Islamic) regions that are otherwise anti-freedom of thought: [T]he governments of Arab nations (led by Saudi Arabia and Egypt) are investing … Continue reading
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Tagged brain drain, brain drains, faust, Islam, mind wells, Muslims, oil, oil wells, science, the middle east
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Ye shall be as gods
And with technology like that depicted in the video below, you can have the illusion of your home being anywhere. Over time, as technologies like this one spread, will our will to fight for real land be weakened? I mean, who will … Continue reading
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Tagged conflict, illusion, imagination, Israel, land, territory, the middle east, the mind, virtual reality, war
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The Burj Khalifa Opened Today
It’s a gorgeous building, and gives off, at least for me, a 1920s Art Deco feel—like something out of Metropolis—a 21st century Tower of Babel (Tower of Bab-OIL). Vanity of vanities, or an inspiring human achievement?: And here it is from … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, art, art deco, Ayn Rand, buildings, burj khalifa, dubai, oil, the middle east, tower of babel
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The Right Song for the New Year?
As we approach the end of one insanely dangerous year (in which we were extremely fortunate that war between Israel and Iran did not erupt), we begin yet another one, the same threat looming. This, unfortunately, seems the apt transition song between 2009 … Continue reading
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Tagged 2010, apocalypse now, death, Heart of Darkness, horror, Iran, Israel, kurtz, new year, nuclear weapons, the middle east, war
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Religious Primitivism in a Nuclear Weaponized World
On Monday Major Adrian Agassi, one of the military court judges who holds jurisdiction over the West Bank, bluntly told the Guardian that God gave the land of Israel to the Jews, and that’s basically that: In an unusually frank interview, … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, God, Israel, land, nuclear weapons, psychology, religion, the middle east
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The Antisemitic Ayatollah Khamenei, in His Threat to Crackdown on Protesters, Can’t Resist a Bit of Jew-Baiting and Swipes at the West
It’s a reminder of how viscerally Antisemitic and anti-Western the Iranian regime is. The Ayatollah Khamenei at Friday prayers today in Tehran: “The competition for the election was very clear. Enemies and dirty Zionists tried to show the election as a … Continue reading
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Tagged ahmadinejad, britain, fascism, Iran, Islam, islamofascism, Judaism, Muslim, persia, religion, tehran, the middle east
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