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On the Taliban’s Hit List: An Exiled Pakistani Singer’s Plea to Save Music

By Austin Dacey

…A rich heritage of their folklore testifies to this fact. You’ve pointed out that even the Taliban have a musical tradition of their own. What is that? They are Pashtuns and therefore cannot live without listening to their own melodies. That is why they have crafted their own hymns, based on all-time popular Pashto tunes. You identify yourself as a Muslim. What is the connection in your own personal experience between your musical and artistic li…

What Coverage of a Fatal Orthodox Baptism Reveals About Western Media

By Katherine Kelaidis

…ited and reductive the conversation around decolonization and multiculturalism truly is. Because in the ironically binary world that these discourses create, there’s little room for whatever traditionally Orthodox cultures are: European, but not Western; Christian, but not Western. It makes us unable to see that when we hijack a tragedy to assert our cultural superiority we’re engaging in a dangerous game, regardless of the culture. And that nothi…

My God, David Brooks

By John Modern

…buzzing world of 24/7 democracy. Despite Brooks’ self-deprecating worry about “totally butchering” Taylor’s answer to what it “feels like to live in an age like ours,” there is a brutal edge to Brooks’ anti-intellectualism. He belittles the presence of critical thinking in the public sphere even as he defines critique, thinking, and civic responsibility as matters of personal choice. Here we encounter the gospel of David Brooks (and a metaphysical…

Norway Massacre Suspect Anders Behring Breivik, Hitler, & the Jerusalem Post Editorial

By Sarah Posner

…of the UK and France) as we only have 1 million in Western Europe, whereas 800,000 out of these 1 million live in France and the UK. The US on the other hand, with more than 6 million Jews (600% more than Europe) actually has a considerable Jewish problem. But please learn the difference between a nation-wrecking multiculturalist Jew and a conservative Jew. He then offers clues as to why he targeted fellow Norwegians, even though he claims to lov…

Religious Right Targets Obama Picks, Daschle and Holder

By Bill Berkowitz

…ts executives, a highly publicized flop with City of Ember, and a reduced output that includes only two films set to open in 2009. Arkansas Adoption Law Challenged: In November, the good folk of Arkansas passed a ballot measure (Act 1) which limits adoption to married couples, effectively eliminating all unmarried couples (gay or heterosexual) living together from adoption. Last week, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit (representin…

Violent, Genocidal Anti-Palestinian Rhetoric Moving to US?

By David Sheen

…injunction to kill all Amalekites, an ancient people who no longer exist, but whose legacy is often attributed to Israel’s enemy de jure. None of these leaders were dismissed from their posts or censured in any way for making these harsh, cruel statement. No surprise then that other Israeli religious officials joined the genocidal chorus. One local chief rabbi ruled that bombing Palestinian civilians is permissible, while another, considered a “li…

US Archbishop and Vatican-Appointed “Overseer” Attends Annual Meeting of Women Religious

By Emily Baxter

…LCWR as their “brother.” His humility makes it a commendable sentiment, but they are certainly not coming to the table as equals in the eyes of the Church. The outgoing LCWR President, Sr. Frances Deacon, offered a closing speech that did not let that reality go by: she spoke on the history of and need for greater involvement of women within the Church. She said, “Our situation reflects larger questions and concerns such as…the ecclesial roles…

Reading Beinart and Lerner as Gaza Burns

By Ira Chernus

…ly about Middle East peace, since we know our efforts may come to naught, but about the Jewish American community itself. We spent many years as marginalized voices in the wilderness. Some felt lucky to be merely ignored and not actively vilified. Others preferred to be vilified, because that meant at least someone was paying attention to our (at the time) heretical views. Now the heresy—Israel should end the occupation and actively pursue a just…

The Radical Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Left’s Challenge Today

By Peter Laarman

…as for the young woke ones. Among those questions: How serious are you about building power—about using the political levers that remain the primary means for changing things—while also practicing radical nonviolence and exercising message discipline? Put another way, what’s your strategy (because your enemies definitely have one)? How prepared are you to challenge the still-standing structure of American imperialism—the enormous military and “in…

The Feds: Gamblers And Addicts

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ow what they are doing or understand where this new tidal wave of cash will actually go. So, flow the money will, anywhere between 600 and 800 billion dollars worth… but where will it go?…