Beyond Blood Libel: A Refudiation of Sarah Palin’s Lone Gunman Theory
What if Sarah Palin had released something like this: Todd and I are shocked and saddened by the news from Tucson today. Gabrielle Giffords and the other victims of today’s awful shooting are in our...
View ArticleOn Killing Unarmed Human Beings
When the news came last week that Navy SEALs had disposed of one of the world’s most wicked, deluded, and powerful people, the impression was given that he took his last breath with a rifle in his...
View ArticleWe’re Conducting Our War on Terror in the Manner al-Qaeda Hoped We Would.
Cartoon by Alan D. Robinson In 2005, Stephen Ulph of the Jamestown Foundation analyzed an article written earlier that year by Bassam al-Baddarin, entitled “Al-Qaeda has drawn up working strategy...
View ArticleA Decade of Imprecision: Reflections on America and Islam
Today marks the tenth anniversary of perhaps the most egregious, manipulative, and immeasurably dangerous linguistic crime in modern history: the equation of the words “Muslim” and “terrorist.” This...
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