Monthly Archives: March 2009
IDF T-Shirt – Pregnant Palestinian Woman – 1 shot, 2 kills
The Israeli army is at the centre of a second controversy over the moral conduct of its soldiers in as many days. The printed t-shirts were discovered by an Israeli newspaper (Pic: courtesy of Yanai Yechiel) … Continue reading
Filed under Current Events, Islam, Politics, Religion
Guantánamo Guard Converts to Islam
Newsweek and MR The Guard Who Found Islam By Dan Ephron | NEWSWEEK Army specialist Terry Holdbrooks had been a guard at Guantánamo for about six months the night he had his life-altering conversation with detainee 590, a Moroccan also known … Continue reading
Filed under Current Events, Islam, Politics, Religion
Israeli Soldiers Allege Indiscriminate Killing in Gaza
Yahoo! TIME Whenever concerns are expressed over civilian casualties inflicted in Israeli military operations, the country’s generals and political leaders are quick to insist that theirs is the “world’s most moral army.” That claim was challenged by human rights observers … Continue reading
Filed under Articles, Current Events, Politics
Rape reports rise in US military
I wrote a paper on this subject in while at UVA. My professor, who was a staunch and blind supporter of the military occupation and invasions of Iraq & Afghanistan, as well as a fairly extreme Catholic who would read … Continue reading
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American Muslim Women: Negotiating Race, Class, and Gender within the Ummah
Jamillah Karim, masha’Allah a very nice and intelligent sister that I know personally and is married to a good friend of mine, has recently publish her book American Muslim Women: Negotiating Race, Class, and Gender within the Ummah (Religion, Race, and … Continue reading
Filed under Current Events, Islam
Test yourself to find what you need to be happier
Penelope Trunk’s Sent to me by “Muscles” Happiness is not really different in each person. In fact, science shows us happiness is basically the same for all of us. And our roadblocks to happiness are all basically the same … Continue reading
Filed under Character, Current Events
Let’s Have More Teen Pregnancy: It’s not a problem
National Review Online By Frederica Mathewes-Green True Love Waits. Wait Training. Worth Waiting For. The slogans of teen abstinence programs reveal a basic fact of human nature: teens, sex, and waiting aren’t a natural combination. Over the last 50 … Continue reading
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