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Will Hitchens Support the Culling of Camels?
Before returning to his usual mantras favoring the war on Terror/Islam, Hitchens condemned the Egyptian cull of its domestic pig population and lamented that pigs are noble creatures (his effort to pit Western civilization against Islamic civilization, I suppose). http://www.slate.com/id/2229830/ But now Alice Springs in the Northern ...
Posted to Fighting Words by Usama3 on November 26, 2009
Majr Hasan, the Man, Cause the Ft Hood Shootings
Maj Hasan, the 39 year old doctor with no social life, no wife, few friends, removed from his hometown against his will, chose by his freewill to engage in mass murder and apparently found some person on earth to justify his inclination (except the Washington Post has not produced the emails demostrating al Awlaki's complicity, even FBI and DOD ...
Posted to Fighting Words by Usama3 on November 24, 2009
Re: Move along - nothing to see here.....
Christianity is the religion of peace. Hinduism is the religion of peace, etc etc etc All religions advocate peace but SOME of the individuals who claim to practice them are actually practicing one and the same single religion of hatred. They may be using different words but their hateful actions speak louder....
Posted to Explainer by kati on November 7, 2009
Didnt Show "How They Do It" In Turkey
This piece was remarkable in several ways, including its ideological and cultural idiosyncracies lacking intellectual depth. First, if one claims to explain ''how they do it'', then one should actually elucidate the fundamental controversy. Harun Yahya promotes ''Islamic creationism''? Why wasn't there a reasonable intellectual survey of ...
Posted to How They Do It by Usama3 on October 27, 2009
Polanski
Just because an adult is sexually stimulated by the sight or actions of a child does not excuse his actions. Your author attempts to excuse Polanski by saying the thirteen-year-old victim he raped behaved provocatively. So where does this slippery slope end? With the three-year-old tot who has learned that ''flirting'' melts an adult and yields ...
Posted to Human Nature by Mary Golden on October 14, 2009
Hitch vs. Polanski vs. the Jihadis
Slandering roman polanski angers the Hollywood old guard. Ooh. Anne Applebaum is never going to invite you over to her house for another tea-party. You may not make Whoopie Goldberg's Christmas card list. Slandering Mohammed as a child rapist and pedophile angers 1 billion Muslims. If your accounts are true about the Prophet's favorite wife ...
Posted to Fighting Words by Raath on October 5, 2009
Fasting causes terrorism
Slate makes an Islam expert out of a barely Muslim Iranian-American boy. Rezaian admits freely to being ''consulted...on matters I was completely unqualified to address.'' He feels so much better about Islam once he learns that some Muslims drink in hiding. This is ''pragmatism''. Wow. The anti-Islam attitude is striking. Somehow Islam is ...
Posted to Dispatches by infynyti on September 16, 2009
Re: More happy-clappy fantasy tales
''Yet the ideology of islam has horrific effects anywhere it is inflicted.'' Nick, you seem like a pretty hateful guy. How can you make such broadly sweeping judgments about an entire religion? That's pretty ignorant, you should be embarassed. Have you ever spent a significant amount of time in a Muslim country? In reality, MOST Muslims are ...
Posted to Dispatches by jmarsico on September 16, 2009
The Descent of Yale
While it is undoubtedly true that some Christians do take offense to artistic exercises such as depicting Christ and Judas Iscariot as sexual partners,it will be recalled that these people showed up at the play depicting this with signs and harsh words.Offended Muslims appear with far greater...shall we say...motivation? And this for the simple ...
Posted to Fighting Words by portle44 on August 19, 2009
Hitchens is confused
HItchens and his throngs of blind supporters always seem confused about the concept of freedom of speech. Freedom of speech necessitates tolerance of the expression of the most obscene and offensive views. TOLERANCE DOES NOT NECESSITATE ACCEPTANCE as Hitchens and co seem to believe. We tolerate Nazi hate speech just like we tolerate ...
Posted to Fighting Words by poyan on August 19, 2009

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