Sikh Prof Attacked on Heels of New Study
It’s all about the turban.
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No Fireworks, Only Candles: Our Work as Americans and Muslims
I have no desire to set off fireworks, jump into a car and yell out the window while waving fists and flags. If I were in New York City, I would light a candle at the memorial and keep vigil. In San Francisco, I pray in a room lit only by a streetlamp, filled with sadness for those who have died in America, Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere, and apprehension at the terrorism-related deaths to come. Our work as Americans and Muslims is far from done.
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Bin Laden’s Death Does Not Prove that Torture Works
The assassination of Osama bin Laden has revived the so-called torture debate. Even if it did help in his capture (which it didn’t), torture is still wrong.
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American Indians Irate over Bin Laden Code Name “Geronimo”
The conflation of Geronimo with bin Laden once again illustrates the failure of the U.S. to consider its own history in fighting insurgent wars.
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Why 9/11 Changed Everything Nothing
The cliché that 9/11 “changed everything” is nowhere less true than in the post-9/11 impulse to declare war immediately. War was a choice as well as an echo: a choice Americans made, and an echo of how Americans have made decisions in times of previous conflict.
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Will a Video Game Make Sense of Qaddafi’s Death?
The desire to translate events like Qaddafi’s death into video games is an attempt to simplify complex issues into patterns that we can recognize and make sense of, with predictable rules, defeatable “bad guys,” and the hopeful celebration of an “epic win.”
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The Drowning of Bin Laden
That nobody wanted bin Laden’s body provides hope that we may finally distinguish between what he and his followers did with what Islam teaches.
Read MoreEvolution Debunked by I.D. of Bin Laden’s Body
The Discovery Institute believes so, at least.
Read MoreWill bin Laden’s Killing End the Jihadi Trend?
Many analysts misunderstand the jihadi message.
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Beyond Retribution: Bin Laden’s Death in its Cosmic Context
At the root of our desire for retribution is the wish that those who have wronged us feel the full weight of what they have done, suffering remorse proportionate in severity to the gravity of their crime. In short, we hunger for their redemption. And so, when the retributive impulse is finally satisfied, it naturally resolves itself into forgiveness. The darkness is lifted, because the evil—the dissociation from the good that inspired the crime—has been destroyed.
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