Search for "VIPREG2024 promo code for 1xbet free bet Saudi Arabia"

Dems Need More Faith, Episode LXXI: The Beer Caucus Proposal

By Daniel Schultz

…k City, and Berkeley, and LA, and all those other safe blue enclaves. I’ll bet you could find a liberal campaigner talking to people about their faith in one of those areas. I’ll bet you could find a bunch. Then too, the Dems-Should-Talk-More-About-Faith narrative generally means Candidates Should Talk More About Faith, ignoring the average party members. It’s to the author’s credit that she cites Pew statistics about just how many Democrats are r…

Pamela Geller in Brooklyn: Free Speech, Hate Speech, and the Futility of Arguing with a Bigot

By Haroon Moghul

…ing that earns her money. Because it’s the only talent she has. This isn’t free speech, it’s free-market. And to what end? If you link anti-Semitism to Islamophobia, or vice versa, you make it more likely each community will deny the other’s pain. Young Muslims who are expected to accept that anti-Semitism is real, at the cost of denying discrimination against them, are unlikely to. This is not only the biggest Jewish city in the world, but the bi…

To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise

By Diane Winston

…ve been ignorant of and alienated from the main currents in American life. Bethany Moreton’s pathbreaking study, To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise is an invaluable asset for apprehending how we got here. Her new book chronicles Wal-Mart’s role in mainstreaming evangelical and free market values even as it became the world’s largest public corporation and the nation’s biggest private employer. A critical appraisal o…

Netflix Removing Antigay Film Isn’t “Free Speech,” it’s Free Market

By Sunnivie Brydum

…is the governmental kind. But that’s an entirely different animal. Ditto “free speech.” Constitutionally protected free speech concerns, once again, the government, not the right to express any view without consequence. And no one (and certainly no government entity) stopped del Toro from making his film, distributing it to theaters, and eventually licensing it to Netflix. Quite the opposite, in fact. Once audiences were able to see the film for…

New Book Reveals How Faith is Like a Covert Operation for the Bush Family

By Frederick Clarkson

…Woodward denies he held, he was a frequent visitor to the White House. The Saudi Royal Family: Baker details the Bush family’s personal, political, and business connections to the Saudi royal family; and to apparent international slush funds and money-laundering schemes. Much of this is told in such a matter-of-fact fashion that it is easy to lose sight of the significance of many of the individual facts. Read more here. The layers of secrecy were…

Hajj Journal: M & M

By Amina Wadud

…on comes from and besides, can one individual actually tell the difference between the three million norm and a five million tops? All of the next few days were meant to be completed in concert with millions of people at this juncture. Yet, somehow, it is also supposed to remain intensely personal. I call this M & M, because afterwards it may not be possible to keep up with all the names of places that start with an M: Makkah, Madinah, Muzdalifah,…

You Asked For It

By Amina Wadud

…pid rule especially for hajj. At some other point I might tell you what my Saudi friend does in order to travel alone as a woman but that will surely come up later. Abdul-Hayy said that complications on the hajj are not necessarily only about gender or more precisely only experienced by women. His is an interesting attestation of that. So while this is true and he gave evidence of it, this blog is precisely about gender and about being a woman. I…

Forget the Pope—We Need a New Caliph!

By Haroon Moghul

…ich is a problem even though the rest of his hair is really cool. (IX) The Saudi Royal Family The Good: The House of Saud, currently led by King Abdullah, are the authoritarian Wahhabi rulers of the modern Hejaz area which includes Islam’s two holiest cities, Mecca, the site of the Kaaba and annual Hajj, and Medina, the city of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). As such, the Saudi Royal Family believe they are the rightful custodians and ca…

Saudis: No Girls Allowed in Mecca

By Hussein Rashid

…parate. Perhaps we should look at basic infrastructure, or alternate years between men and women. However, the real goal has never been to advance the religion. Like sheep they bleat a refrain that seeks to exclude people, instead of understanding their faith. During the lifetime of the Prophet Muhammad, there was no objection to men and women mixing during the pilgrimage. It was this argument that repelled this group of “scholars” the last time t…

Grab ‘n Go – Investigative Thriller Follows Covert Efforts to Control the Source of Life But Comes Up Short on Analysis

By Peter Laarman

…massive Wikileaks trove of diplomatic cables to track down a massive Saudi Arabian investment in Arizona land, where Saudi-employed “farmers” now grow prodigious amounts of hay, sucking up precious water from a rapidly dwindling aquifer. Wall Street is next up for treatment. The team comes across an obscure investor-backed trust company that purchases vast tracts of US farmland, which is then leased to foreign interests. When confronted, the smoot…