Entries from March 2009
March 22, 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)
The revelations centre on t-shirt designs made for soldiers that make light of shooting pregnant Palestinian mothers and children and include [...]
March 22, 2009
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 as “the General.” This was early 2004, about halfway through Holdbrooks’s stint at Guantánamo with the 463rd Military [...]
March 22, 2009
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 over Israel’s recent offensive in Gaza, although such criticism is reflexively dismissed by Israel as driven [...]
March 18, 2009
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 passages from the Bible to support her ideas in the middle of class, obviously didn’t [...]
March 18, 2009
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 Ethnicity). I haven’t read it myself yet, but plan on doing so soon. Below is [...]
March 13, 2009
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 as well — that we each think we are special and the research doesn’t apply to us, so [...]
March 10, 2009
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 years the wait has gotten longer. In 1950, the average first-time bride was just over 20; in 1998 she [...]
