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  • The Ancient Silk Road ~GE5B9.kmz

    changturtle.blogspot.com/2010/02/ancient-silk-road-ge5b9k... www.google.com.tw/search?hl=zh-TW&q=+site:bbs.keyhole... 儲存至我的地圖 ~GE5B9.kmzThe Silk Roads From at least the 1st cent BC to the 14th cent AD caravans moved along the Slk Roads between the Mediterranenan and China carrying prec…

  • French Burqa Ban

    The opinions of most people annoy me when it comes to the veil ban in France. People keep talking about women who wear the niqab as though they couldn't possibly want to wear a veil by their own volition, even though there are women who definitely, truly want to. People say that making women wear th…

  • Why Yasir Qadhi Wants to Talk About Jihad

    Todd Heisler/The New York TimesYasir Qadhi spoke before the Eid al-Fitr prayer service in September at the Memphis Cook Convention Center. March 17, 2011Why Yasir Qadhi Wants to Talk About JihadBy ANDREA ELLIOTTOn a chilly night in the dead of a New England winter, Yasir Qadhi hurried down the stair…

  • In Addition: A Note on Barbarism

    Here is a dimension of the "she brought it on herself" argument I forgot to include in the prior post because I was tired and decided that I should probably lie down and then sleep as opposed to the other way around.Suggesting that someone should expect to receive sincere threats to their own life f…

  • What's Keeping Me Awake At Night

    (Besides the newborn in the bassinet next to my bed, that is)As hype and rhetoric has swirled around the so-called Ground Zero Mosque, the Bible-burning pastor in Florida, and Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, there’s been something bothering me that I couldn’t quite put a finger on. Something just felt wron…

  • My belated 9/11 commentary

    There were a few weblogs out there on 9/11 commenting on how people were more in tune with football than they were with the tragedy that took place nearly a decade ago.I had made the comment that I was torn on whether or not to mourn/meditate on the terrorist attacks, or enjoy the total awesomeness…

  • For 9-11: Talking Pasta And Burning Books

    Lifted from a Facebook page. The names have been changed to insure a little anonymity:Rigatoni; Repose from @ Couscous: "Let him who is without sin burn the first Qu'ran."Linguini; Although the stunt in Gainesville is unnecessarily provocative and lacking in Christian charity it must be viewed in c…

  • Some thoughts on current events

    The topics of the day seem largely to be leaning more and more often towards how Americas freedom of religion squares with the practice of Islam. The undercurrents of this started seeping into our daily lives early in Obama's candidacy. The initial response to the attacks of 9/11 were largely well…

  • The Surahs of Peace and The Signs of War

    I don’t pretend to understand the Quran and Hadith like I understand the Bible. I went to a series of websites that highlight the teaching of regarding defensive war, lack of compulsion, and freedom of conviction.http://www.themodernreligion.com/terror/terrorism_verses1.htmhttp://www.alrisala.org/Ar…

  • Oil Spills and Corporate Rule: THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT!

    In 1969, when I was a kid, they were all worried about "The Greenhouse Effect" and pollution and oil slicks. This was in 1969 people, I'm so apathetic, are you? How can anybody be surprised? We all knew this was gonna happen. Heck, we KNEW 9/11 was going to happen. My teacher was talking about it…