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A Bosnian Lyric Song “You Wounded Me” (English titles)
You wounded me this winter, with the coldness of the earth, I am the garden of your wishes, crown me with cherry blossoms. May I tilt as an ivy tree, around your tree of dunes, may I bind up my head by the beauty of truth. Chorus: May the wind and storms twist around my tree, in that[Read More…]
On a “Progressive Muslims” in the USA
Muslim Progressives Paul Rowan Brian (“Muslims in American Politics,” November) has deftly laid bare the source of Muslims’ predicament in the United States: their profound anxiety over being accepted as “real” Americans, and the tendency of this anxiety to overcome their confidence in the truth of their religious principles. Muslims’ need for acceptance is what makes the flattery of the[Read More…]
Can We All Treat Blasphemy as Taboo?
From the geopolitical earthquake that was the response to Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses to the recent case of Asia Bibi in Pakistan, conflict over blasphemous speech seems to be an intractable feature of the coexistence of Islamic and secular-liberal frames of value. Conflicts over speech and the sacred in some ways appear to embody not only the most frequent but also[Read More…]
Moral Acceptance of Polygamy at Record High
Polygamy, a practice that President James Garfield once said “offends the moral sense,” is now seen by 17% of Americans as “morally acceptable,” up from 14% in 2016 and the highest rate on record dating back to 2003. These results come from the May 3-7 Gallup Values and Beliefs poll. Despite growing acceptance of the practice over the last 15[Read More…]
Marry Christmas Cheating? A Muslim Respond!
Should you give your wife the green light to cheat on you this Christmas? These are the important questions Western bourgeoisie men are supposed to be asking themselves, apparently. The Telegraph “Many experts now believe monogamy is a tighter fit for women than for men. This Christmas give your wife something she really wants. Something truly exciting. A hall pass.” For[Read More…]
What a White Muslim Sub-Community Would Look Like
When one steps into a mosque in the West, we either see Muslims predominately from one ethnic group, or an array of different ethnicities with a few token converts. The mosques have been present in the West for decades, yet converts, especially White converts, are difficult to acquire, maintain, and make them feel like they are fully part of the[Read More…]
Sinead O’Connor and Sick White Converts
”After having converted to Islam, Sinead O’Connor no longer wants to be around any white people whom she called “disgusting” and seemed to think include all non-Muslims. The 51-year-old singer, who now goes by the name Shuhada’ Davitt, even acknowledged that the sentiment she was about to express Tuesday is racist. “I’m terribly sorry. What I’m about to say is[Read More…]
Muslims, the Bladensburg Cross, and the Preservation of Order
Socrates: Take a look round, then, and see that none of the uninitiated are listening. Now by the uninitiated I mean: the people who believe in nothing but what they can grasp in their hands, and who will not allow that action or generation or anything invisible can have real existence. Plato, Theaetetus A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to[Read More…]
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