Drive-by Planet: ‘The Innocence of Muslims’: Bacile film all about insult and...
Sam Bacile, an alleged California property developer is reportedly behind the film The Innocence of Muslims that sparked recent attacks on US missions in Libya and Egypt. Bacile – a self-described...
View ArticleDead Wild Roses: So, Tell me again about Islam being the Religion of Peace –...
Islam, religion of Peace burns down American Embassy illustrating dedication to rational non-violent ways of resolving disputes. This just in the from insano-delusional land (credit CBC.ca): “Many...
View ArticleCanadian Progressive: Innocence of Muslims: Pathetic Movie Responsible For...
Here’s an extended trailer of the ”Innocence Of Muslims”, the shitty anti-Islam movie that unleashed riots in the Muslim world, leading to the assassination of the U.S. Ambassador to Libya, J....
View ArticleThe Scott Ross: Rights And Religion Make Us All Fundamentalists
“How dare Islamic fundamentalists kill to protect their religion from such a small and meaningless movie. And though I oppose the hate-filled and misguided film, I would die fighting to protect the...
View ArticleBill Longstaff: The U.S.—India’s favourite major power
With the unwitting collaboration of an idiot “film-maker” in Los Angeles, irresponsible imams in the Middle East and Islamic extremists leading to the besieging of American embassies, the United States...
View ArticleDrive-by Planet: Tariq Ramadan on Muslim protests, Islam and the Arab awakening
There has been so much heat and accusation lately over the protests sparked by the schlock anti-Islam film Innocence of Muslims it has been hard to find measured voices that offer more than a partisan...
View ArticleEclectic Lip: Muslims in America and other hidden ethnic histories
Yves at Naked Capitalism cross-posted a wonderful Alternet piece by Lynn Parramore, eviscerating the idea that Islam is new or alien to America. In truth, the Muslim faith has had a long (if...
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Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice and Hero of the Day Special...
I have done a few ‘Hero of the Day’ posts and I have a few more on the ways. The recipients have done great work spreading important information, rallying against injustice, educating us masses, and...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Human Rights Watch: Challenges for Rights After...
The willingness of new governments to respect rights will determine whether those uprisings give birth to genuine democracy or simply spawn authoritarianism in new forms.
View Articledrive-by planet: Video message for FEMEN: ‘saving Muslim women one bra strap...
A Muslimah from Manchester, England, gets her message across in this funny yet pointed video in which she thanks FEMEN ‘from the bottom of her heart’ for showing her how to campaign for women’s...
View ArticleThe Disaffected Lib: Bill Maher’s Anti-Islam Smear
On his RealTime programme last night, Bill Maher couldn’t wait to get into his shopworn, anti-Islam theme about the Muslim faith being unique in promoting violence. As I listened to his diatribe I so...
View ArticleProgressive Proselytizing: Thank you Westboro Baptist Chuch
Westboro Baptish Church – made infamous for picketing military funeral in a protest against homosexual tolerance in America – has reached, unbelievably, a new low. They are now threatening to picket...
View Articledrive-by planet: Some Islamophobic new atheists as bad as Fox News on steroids
Atheist “fundamentalists” whose very existence seems predicated on their non-belief in God can be as extremist and narrow minded as the worst religious prig. They’re fixated, the way many extremists...
View Articledrive-by planet: Woolwich attack on British soldier Lee Rigby was not...
The killing on an off-duty British soldier on a street in Woolwich, London, had all the ingredients loved by the tabloids… dark skinned Muslim assailants armed with knives and machete… a white well...
View ArticleTHE FIFTH COLUMN: The Bottom Line on the Parti Québécois Proposed Values Charter
I was going to write a long blog post on this but since so much has been written about it I think this captures the spirit and intent of the proposal succinctly. The bottom line on Quebec’s proposed...
View ArticleThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: Calgary Sun Plays The Racist Card …
It’s never been a big secret that lurking just underneath the surface of Canada’s right wing politics is a religiously-inspired vein of racism. It reared its head back in the late 1980s when the...
View ArticleTerahertz: Closure of Muslim Free School highlights folly of government policy
A bit of welcome news came today that British government inspectors have forced the temporary closure of an Islamic free school over “health and safety issues.” The school promises to re-open soon....
View ArticleTerahertz: Two sides of a coin
There is no inherent contradiction in viewing fundamentalist religious headgear as misogynistic while still supporting an individual’s religious freedom, so why does the media keep painting it as such?...
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