Green Energy
- The 4th Amendment And Government Surveillance
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly...
- We Have The Right To Bear Encryption
This NSA issue has got me to thinking about how we, who may oppose the government from time to time, are going to be able to avoid detection and ensure that our movements and communications are secure. How does one avoid an Omniscient all-seeing Government...
- "human Rights Should Not Be Necessarily In Unison With Particular Western Values And Standards - Muslims Have Their Own Reading Of Human Rights"
From Jihad Watch: Sho nuff, or, Indeed they doAbsolutely: the restrictions on freedom of speech and freedom of conscience, the institutionalized inequality of rights for women and non-Muslims -- it's just a different vision of human rights, you...
- Someone Speaking Sense At The Un
At the UN Human Rights Council 9th Session, which is considering a proposal to ban "defamation of religion," Austin Dacey, a representative for the Center for Inquiry, said this to the Human Rights Council: Existing instruments such as ICCPR Article 20...
- Multiculturalism Vs. Universalism
I've been re-reading this middle section of a speech by Donna M. Hughes. She says several things worth thinking about. In this section, she's answering a question she is often asked: Is Christian fundamentalism the same as Islamic fundamentalism?...
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The American Election Is All About Islam
Phyllis Chesler's latest column certainly reflects my perspective:
C’mon, whom are we kidding? How big does the elephant have to be before we’ll agree to discuss it? This coming American election is not just about universal health care—it is also about the survival of the free world as we have come to know it. And therefore, all about Islam.
If we say we are for women’s rights or for human rights, then a candidate’s gender, skin-color, or age may not be as important as their ideas about Islam.
Do our candidates understand that we are really at war and that we cannot talk our way out of it? That charm, even of the spellbinding variety, is not enough, nor can we “take a meeting,” Hollywood-style, or Tammany-Hall style, to set things right. Nor is simple, old-fashioned heroics the answer to the kind of Orwellian propaganda and guerilla-terrorism that America and our allies will continue to confront in the 21st century.
Does our next President understand that we have to fight with everything we have and risk losing it all in order to hold onto any of it?
Does our next President understand that a western concept of human rights is a universal vision and that America cannot protect such rights only for American women and then turn our backs on women in the Third World?
C’mon, whom are we kidding? How big does the elephant have to be before we’ll agree to discuss it? This coming American election is not just about universal health care—it is also about the survival of the free world as we have come to know it. And therefore, all about Islam.
If we say we are for women’s rights or for human rights, then a candidate’s gender, skin-color, or age may not be as important as their ideas about Islam.
Do our candidates understand that we are really at war and that we cannot talk our way out of it? That charm, even of the spellbinding variety, is not enough, nor can we “take a meeting,” Hollywood-style, or Tammany-Hall style, to set things right. Nor is simple, old-fashioned heroics the answer to the kind of Orwellian propaganda and guerilla-terrorism that America and our allies will continue to confront in the 21st century.
Does our next President understand that we have to fight with everything we have and risk losing it all in order to hold onto any of it?
Does our next President understand that a western concept of human rights is a universal vision and that America cannot protect such rights only for American women and then turn our backs on women in the Third World?
Isolationism is cowardly, interventionism is both dangerous and almost doomed to failure; we need a new dialectical method to resolve these two seemingly intractable opposites.
Here is a question that an American President needs to answer.
Is revealing the truth about a particular religion or about its followers—be they Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, or Jewish, tantamount to insulting or reviling someone else’s religion?
Here is a question that an American President needs to answer.
Is revealing the truth about a particular religion or about its followers—be they Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, or Jewish, tantamount to insulting or reviling someone else’s religion?
If not—or rather, if only one group experiences the “truth” or any criticism, both valid and invalid, as an insult, what is the remedy? Sensitivity training about Islam for the presumably “Islamophobic” or sensitivity training about western standards of tolerance for too-easily injured Muslims?
- The 4th Amendment And Government Surveillance
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly...
- We Have The Right To Bear Encryption
This NSA issue has got me to thinking about how we, who may oppose the government from time to time, are going to be able to avoid detection and ensure that our movements and communications are secure. How does one avoid an Omniscient all-seeing Government...
- "human Rights Should Not Be Necessarily In Unison With Particular Western Values And Standards - Muslims Have Their Own Reading Of Human Rights"
From Jihad Watch: Sho nuff, or, Indeed they doAbsolutely: the restrictions on freedom of speech and freedom of conscience, the institutionalized inequality of rights for women and non-Muslims -- it's just a different vision of human rights, you...
- Someone Speaking Sense At The Un
At the UN Human Rights Council 9th Session, which is considering a proposal to ban "defamation of religion," Austin Dacey, a representative for the Center for Inquiry, said this to the Human Rights Council: Existing instruments such as ICCPR Article 20...
- Multiculturalism Vs. Universalism
I've been re-reading this middle section of a speech by Donna M. Hughes. She says several things worth thinking about. In this section, she's answering a question she is often asked: Is Christian fundamentalism the same as Islamic fundamentalism?...