I was going to join everyone else on the internet tonight and write about so-called Christian Terry Jones and his poorly thought-out plan to burn 200 copies of the Quran come Saturday, but it looks now as though it’s been called off, or at least momentarily postponed. Jones says he decided to pull the plug […]
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Let’s burn all the holy books while we’re at it
Posted in Church and State, Civil Liberties, Religious Extremism Also tagged Florida, ground zero mosque, Lou Reed, Park51, quran, religious freedom, Sharif El-Gamal, Susan Boyle, Terry Jones 19 Comments
Racism at Ground Zero, and the role of FOX
There was apparently a big protest yesterday, around the corner from the site of the former World Trade Center. Crazed, middle-aged, white people, emboldened by the likes of FOX News and Sarah Palin, had taken to the streets to show their displeasure over plans to build a 13-story Muslim community center in Lower Manhattan. And, […]
Posted in Media, Other, Photographs Also tagged al Qaeda, al Qaeda magazine, Alwaleed bin Talal, anti-Muslim violence, Anwar al-Awlaki, Brian Fishman, Evan F. Kohlmann, extremists, Flashpoint Global Partners, FOX News, ground zero, ground zero mosque, hypocrisy watch, Islam, Islamophobia, Jon Stewart, militants, mob mentality, Muslim, New America Foundation, racism, Rupert Murdoch, skull cap, Terry Jones, Under-Armour, violence on the extreme right 13 Comments