Category Archives: USA

CIA vaccine scam endangers vaccines worldwide

CIA organised fake vaccination drive to get Osama bin Laden’s family DNA | World news | The Guardian The Guardian today reported that an investigation by the paper had uncovered a fake vaccine programme in Abbotabad, the town where Osama … Continue reading

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Who’s defending Dominique Strauss-Kahn?

Dominique Strauss-Kahn finds sympathy in Paris | World news | The Guardian The above article lays out some of the conspiracy theories people in France entertain about why the former head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has been … Continue reading

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Posted in Crime, Europe, Gender, USA | 2 Comments

How not to teach kids about the slave trade

Womanist Musings: When Is A Child Too Young to Learn About the Middle Passage? This story is about an incident in which two supply teachers decided to show a film called The Middle Passage, about the trans-Atlantic slave trade, to … Continue reading

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Just don’t call it evil

Today Sarah (of Cat in a Dog’s World) pointed me to this Slate article about the present tendency to quickly assume someone is mentally ill if they commit an outrageous crime, such as the recent massacre in Tucson, Arizona. I … Continue reading

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The offender and the offended

Warning to the US: Don't Play by Islamic Rules (from Standpoint magazine) This article is Douglas Murray’s treatment of the so-called Ground Zero Mosque controversy, in which he smears Muslims by equating them with al-Qa’ida, praises Newt Gingrich as a … Continue reading

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Posted in Douglas Murray, Islamophobia, Terrorism, USA | 1 Comment

North Korea gaffe should sink Palin

Yesterday I was having a discussion with my aunt, who asked me if I had heard of Sarah Palin making that ridiculous statment about their North Korean “allies”. She was concerned that this would not harm her chances of becoming … Continue reading

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Park51 turning into Abbey Mills re-run

I haven’t commented on the Park51 affair yet — the 13-storey mosque and community centre that some group wants to put up in Lower Manhattan — mainly because other Muslims (and others) have said it much better than I can. … Continue reading

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Posted in Islamophobia, Organisations & Leadership, USA | Leave a comment

“Connection with Allah” overrides Shari’ah, says columnist

Kevin Myers: ‘Fear of Islamophobia stopped Hasan’s superiors from disciplining him for his jihadist outpourings’ - Kevin Myers, Columnists - Independent.ie Kevin Myers, a columnist on the Irish Independent (a paper whose website is suspiciously similar to the Independent in … Continue reading

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Posted in Islamophobia, USA, Windbags | Tagged | 2 Comments

Hypocrisy of praising Nidal Hasan

Muhajideen Ryder on the hypocrisy of the people who praise Nidal Hasan now when they would, before his massacre, have called him an infidel: It is shocking to see Muslims praising and calling Nidal Hasan a hero. According to to … Continue reading

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Going postal in Texas

So, a Muslim army major has gone on the rampage with two automatic handguns on a US army base in Texas, and killed (so far) 13 people. Obviously, the usual suspects rush to blame Muslims generally and to cast aspersions … Continue reading

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Come on Steve, prove you’re one of us

Where Are the British Birthers? | TPM Calling on Stephen Hawking to provide his bona fides (hat tip: Ginny, via Twitter): Perhaps there will be some brave republican willing to spearhead an investigation of whether Stephen Hawking actually IS British? … Continue reading

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Posted in Disability, Health, USA | 5 Comments

“Birthers” can neither be ignored nor engaged

To engage the birther fantasists is futile; to dismiss them, reckless by Gary Younge in today’s Guardian They shouldn’t be engaged with, according to Gary Younge, because their claims are fantastic and have been proven wrong again and again; they … Continue reading

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Gary McKinnon and the Daily Mail crusade

The Daily Mail has recently been running a campaign over several issues to stop the British computer hacker, Gary McKinnon, from being extradited to the USA to face charges over cracking American military and NASA computers. It has printed heartstring-tugging … Continue reading

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Posted in Civil liberties, USA | Tagged , | 4 Comments

Bush, Google and censorship

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Posted in Tech, USA | 1 Comment

Response to Umar Lee on Shaikh Hamza Yusuf

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Posted in Community, Organisations & Leadership, Political correctness, USA | 36 Comments

Who is a Muslim, and who isn’t?

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Posted in Islam, USA | 11 Comments

The obligatory Obama post

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Posted in USA | 7 Comments

Religion, evolution and stupidity

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Posted in London life, Secularism, USA | 5 Comments

Panorama’s narrow view on Palin

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Posted in Media, USA | 1 Comment

Why the US election is everyone’s business

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