According to a November poll conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research in the West Bank and Gaza: The poll shows that a significant shift has occurred in Palestinian public attitudes regarding the intifada and the peace process. It shows a majority of 54% supporting the “road map” and 42% oppose it.… Continue reading Some Hope(?) in the Holy Land
PhotoDude Gets It
PhotoDude has a great blog where he discuss politics and posts his photographs as well. He’s on my blogroll mainly because of the images, but his recent post about clearly differentiating between the extremist murderers of the Al-Qaeda variety and the general Muslim population is very good: And we need to make that disctinction clearly… Continue reading PhotoDude Gets It
Amazon’s Clothes-Wearing Clean Underwear Buying Customers
What’s up with that?
A Moderate Voice of Islam
Here is King Abdullah II of Jordan in the Washington Post: Our religion calls us to live and work for justice and to promote tolerance. Daily, we share God’s blessing: Salaam Aleikum — “Peace be upon you.” This is the true voice of Islam, but it is not the voice that Americans always hear. Instead,… Continue reading A Moderate Voice of Islam
Tribalism and Conservatism
Unqualified Offerings talks about how US intervention looks from a foreigner’s perspective: Do not mistake Unqualified Offerings’ point here. UO is not saying Mr. Nawfal is right and we’re terrible people. Unqualified Offerings is saying that what matters is that Mr. Nawfal thinks he’s right and we’re terrible people. The fact that we launched our… Continue reading Tribalism and Conservatism
Coming Attractions
Comments on the article “Wrestling with Islam” via Aziz Poonawalla. Comments on Aziz’s latest in the silence of the media series. More comments on the Israel-Palestine problem, especially discussing this NY Review of Books article via The Poor Man. A discussion of the theology of the religious political parties in Pakistan, to dispel some of… Continue reading Coming Attractions
I am Getting Old
Today is the 61st anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. It is also my 32nd birthday. I can’t believe I am still in school at 32. An interesting factoid: My dad was born on Aug 6, the same day that the US dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
Let’s Roll Back Time
This is what Trent Lott said at Strom Thurmond’s 100th birthday: “I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We’re proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn’t have had all these problems over all these years,… Continue reading Let’s Roll Back Time
Global Attitudes Survey
There are some interesting results in this Pew survey. Large majorities (>80%) in US, UK and Germany (surprise!) think Iraq is a danger. A majority of Germans, French, and Russians and 44% of the British think the US wants to use force in Iraq because they want to control Iraqi oil. Is there something we… Continue reading Global Attitudes Survey
Infidelity is Bad for Your Health
Finally, a reason not to cheat on your spouse: Graham Jackson, a heart specialist at St. Thomas’s Hospital in London, found couples in long-term relationships were far less likely to have heart attacks while having sex than those having affairs or one-night stands.