Tag Archives: Islamophobia
The Wages of Extremism
We can argue about whether the right’s continued practice of fanning the flames of Islamophobia actually leads to death. But here’s something that’s substantially more definite: Because Republicans either incite — or fail to discredit, at leadership levels — the persistent “Birther” rumors, at least two members of our armed forces have concluded that the […]
The Trouble With Banning Foreign Law: It’s Anti-Business
A Slate article on the right’s new jihad against shar’ia law points to a weird device: a proposed uniform act, titled the American Law For American Courts Act, which purports to eliminate any court or arbitration panel’s ability to rely on law “that would not grant the parties affected by the ruling or decision the […]
There’s No Two Ways About It: Terry Jones Has Blood on his Hands
Though the reaction is somewhat delayed, a mob in Afghanistan finally heard of Florida Pastor Terry Jones’ Koran-burning stunt… and marched on a United Nations compound to avenge the incident, killing twelve. Jones, in response, insists on two things: first, that this isn’t his fault. And second, that it proves, conclusively, that Muslims can’t be […]
Amateur Hour: Conservatives Tackle Pullman Abstention
Charming. In reading up for the prior post, I was struck with the misfortune of having to load Pamela Geller’s hate blog for long enough to be able to copy a link from the address bar. Try as I might to avoid it, a single word caught my eye: “abstention.” Huh? Is America’s most vitriolic […]
Arbitrations Do Not Work Like That! Why Florida Is Not Under the Suzerainty of Shar’ia Law
I saw this article on Glenn Beck’s news site, but I never thought it’d make it to any site even slightly more reputable. Nevertheless, here it is on Politico, a site that manages to satisfy that criterion sometimes. Apparently, an Islamic arbitration tribunal (an a’lim) conducted an arbitration according to Islamic law. This is entirely […]
The Sad Familiarity of the Shar’ia Fable
With Rick Santorum’s… inexplicable comments in New Hampshire, it seems clear that congressional Republicans, and presumptive Republican presidential candidates, intend to drag the Shar’ia law “issue” — the odd fear that American Muslims intend to import Shar’ia law into the U.S. as the first step towards a global caliphate — into the 2012 campaign. Why? […]
Violence, Appropriation, and the Cordoba Initiative
RedState uses some surprisingly big words to come to a theory of why the “9/11 Mosque” is wrong. Says RedState, it is wrong for “the site of an infamous slaughter [to be] appropriated by promoters of the group that perpetrated that slaughter.” This is a clever (and maybe even correct) rule, but does not compel […]
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