Global Intifada

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 […]

The following is an extremely rough draft of a paper I’m working on. I’ve edited this significantly since writing this and am still working on inserting the citations. I’d like to get some critiques of the overall structure and argument of this piece before I do any more work on it.
Preface
 
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The CIA admitted today that it used waterboarding on at least three occasions for a purported national security interest. Of course, in spite of the extreme pain and terror it inflicts on the victims, they deny its torture.
However:
- The Constitution clearly and unambiguously bans “cruel and unusual punishment” and waterboarding is both cruel and unusual.
- […]

The Supreme Court of Israel has recently upheld the government’s decision to reduce fuel and electricity to Gaza in order to combat its arch-nemesis, HAMAS. The Israeli government recently engaged in this tactic after HAMAS blew up the wall on the Egyptian border in order to avoid a full Israeli blockade that restricted even food […]

The Center for Public Integrity has compiled a list of all of the Bush Administration’s statements concerning the war on Iraq and has concluded that 935 of them were downright false. (Source) The beauty of the website is that it actually contains a searchable database that exposes contradictory statements so the viewer can see how […]

Within every single discussion on the democratization of the Muslim world is the assumed premise that the Muslim world has “failed” or is “failing” due to its ideological state. The concept of failure, underdevelopment, or whatever pejorative term one chooses to use, is a relative term that is contrasted with the “success” of the West […]

“It’ll be — It’ll be the — the ballot or it’ll be the bullet. It’ll be liberty or it’ll be death. And if you’re not ready to pay that price don’t use the word freedom in your vocabulary.”
 
- Malcolm X -
 
I. Introduction
 
The Muslim world seems to be locked in battle between various factions competing […]

This post is a response to Sidi Musaddiq in the “Is the Constitutional illegal?” note where he asserts, among other things, that the Constitution is a superior moral document than the Articles of Confederation and couldn’t follow the procedures for amendment laid forth in the Articles since it made amending it impossible.
Instead of responding in […]

In previous posts (1, 2, 3), I questioned the democratic nature of the American government under the Constitution. In this post, I summarize the views of Ackerman and Katyal’s “Our Unconventional Founding.” [Available on JSTOR], who argue that the Constitution was devised, discussed, and ratified in a patently unlawful manner. The underlying purpose of […]

Given the constant assertion that Islam is incompatible with liberal democratic capitalism and must therefore be confronted, attacked, and subdued, it might be prudent to take a moment to evaluate whether or not America, the so-called bastion of hope in the free world, is itself a democracy. A democracy is simply defined as governance by […]