My following book review appears today in Sydney’s Sun Herald newspaper: Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement That Shattered the Party Max Blumenthal (Nation Books, $49.95) Reviewed by Antony Loewenstein Christian fundamentalists have taken over the Republican Party. “It’s become the party of birthers, deathers and Civil War re-enacters,” Max Blumenthal told the Los Angeles Times…
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Hatred of Muslims appeals across party lines in the UK
Who says a racist party can’t expand its base? One can imagine the kind of people dying to sign-up: An elderly Sikh who describes Islam as a “beast” and once provided a character reference for Nick Griffin during his racial hatred trial is set to become the British National Party’s first non-white member. Rajinder Singh,…
What do Muslims think of Islam today?
The State of Sharia is a fascinating documentary about what Muslims think about their religion, rather than Westerners explaining how perverted their religion is:
Without serious pressure, writes Roger Cohen, Israel will not change
New York Times columnist Roger Cohen has written extensively this year about the Israel/Palestine conflict, and his latest column continues that tradition. Its importance lies in telling Americans how content many Israelis are with the status-quo (namely occupation): I’ve grown so pessimistic about Israel-Palestine that I find myself agreeing with Israel’s hard-line foreign minister, Avigdor…
Just how confident are we of Western culture and Islam?
A very interesting 2007 debate between Independent columnist Johann Hari and Hizb Ut Tahrir’s Sajjad Khan that touches on Islam, values, women and Western civilisation (via Michael Brull):
Our Zionist Gods will protect us from war crimes charges
Imagine if a prominent Muslim sheik said this? The world would be outraged. But a Rabbi? Just another day in the fundamentalist Jewish state: The Israel Defense Forces’ chief rabbi told students in a pre-army yeshiva program last week that soldiers who “show mercy” toward the enemy in wartime will be “damned.” Brig. Gen. Avichai…
Does Haaretz really need money this badly?
Blogger Richard Silverstein makes a good point. Haaretz, shame: I noted tonight that Haaretz’s English language website features a banner ad promoting the anti-Muslim propaganda film, Third Jihad.… You’ve got to ask yourself what brought the swamp rats out of the sewer to show their faces in the pages of Haaretz?
Israel is falling apart; most Jews don’t want to know
Finally, the Americans are starting to tire of the Middle East conflict (even if they blame both sides for the impasse, oblivious to the clear power imbalance between Israelis and Palestinians). Here’s Thomas Friedman in the New York Times: Today, the Arabs, Israel and the Palestinians are clearly not feeling enough pain to do anything…
Omar Musa, an Australian man of now
During my recent visit to the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival in Bali, Indonesia, I became friends with Omar Musa, a beat poet, rapper and artist. He’s Muslim, Australian and a man to watch. Here’s the video for the recent single, Hemingway: Omar Musa “Hemingway” (Dir: Tom Spiers) from MRTVIDZ on Vimeo.
Palestinian figure raises the spectre of a one-state struggle
The failure of the US to bridge the major gaps between Israel and the Palestinians (mainly because Washington is in bed with the Jewish state), led senior US-based Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat to say this week: The alternative left for Palestinians is to “refocus their attention on the one-state solution where Muslims, Christians and Jews…