Global Intifada

Excellent article by Shajahan Madampat at Khaleej Times Online here.
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Random House publishers canceled the August 12th release of a steamy novel about the youngest bride of the Prophet (sallahu alayhi wa sallam) by debut novelist Sherry Jones. (BBC) Some have described the book as being “softcore pornography.” The novel was supported by the likes of Asra Nomani who argued that such an “intelligent discourse” […]

We start with a simple query:
 
Is freedom an intrinsic or instrumental good?
 
An instrumental good is a good that attains some value through its use for a higher purpose. An intrinsic good is that which is good in and of itself.
 
Why do we have freedom? Freedom is an intangible concept. I cannot use freedom to purchase […]

Women in the US  military today are more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by a terrorist. (CNN, PBS has a video on the story here)
If this is how the US military treats its own women, who have rights and are from the same country, its not hard to imagine what […]

“In the United States war-related expenditures have constituted the dominant sector of the federal budget throughout our history. Omitting the years of the Second World War and the post-war period, where the record is so well known, a tabulation of federal expenditures by decade, from 1800 to 1939, for army, navy, veteran’s compensations and pensions, […]

History of American Interventions from 1790 until Today
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Here’s a rough draft of something I’ve been working on. Its incomplete and I have to go back and insert further evidence and proper citation and what not.
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Introduction: Three Weak Theories of American State Action
There are three conventional methodologies of attempting to understand how America behaves as a state: (1) to examine and take […]

Here are the relevant excerpts:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is considering letting the FBI investigate Americans without any evidence of wrongdoing, relying instead on a terrorist profile that could single out Muslims, Arabs or other racial and ethnic groups.
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Although President Bush has disavowed targeting suspects based on their race or ethnicity, the new […]

Earlier this month, Republican Presidential candidate John McCain lambasted the oil industry:
“I am very angry, frankly, at the oil companies,” said the presumptive GOP presidential nominee. “Not only because of the obscene profits they’ve made, but their failure to invest in alternative energy to help us eliminate our dependence on foreign oil.” (Source)
When McCain ran […]

GASP!
Those crazy Moslems at it again!
If I were a right-wing pundit, I would be making the following statements:
- The New Testament is the word of a False God and deserves to be burnt
- This action is protected by Free Speech
- “They” don’t respect us, so why should we respect “them.”
Of course, I’m not a right […]