Tag Archives: Islam

Ground Zero bullshit

I want to write something tonight about the so-called “ground zero” mosque. I say so-called because it’s actually a few blocks from where the World Trade Center once stood, but that doesn’t seem to deter people, even on the left, from calling it the “ground zero” mosque, like it’s a giant mosque being built triumphantly […]

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Rallying football hooligans to the anti-Muslim cause in Europe

I’ve been meaning to pass along a link to this article on the so-called English Defense League for the past week or so. I find the intersection of football hooliganism and anti-Muslim violence to be both absolutely fascinating and completely terrifying. Here’s how the article begins. A middle-age, respectable looking man has emerged as a […]

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Not from the Onion

It seems as though Muzzammil Hassan, the founder of an Islamic television station in upstate New York, was just arrested for beheading his wife. According to CNN, he’d launched the site with the nobel goal of “countering Muslim stereotypes.” I’m interested to see how the Muslim press in the U.S. handles this. One would hope […]

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