May 15, 2008
Ali Eteraz provides a great rebuttal to Edward Luttwak’s absolutely moronic op-ed in the NYT .* Why are there practically no Muslims who are worried about Senator Obama’s alleged apostasy? Because he isn’t an apostate, because he was never a Muslim. And the reason that Luttwak’s piece contai...
go to article »May 9, 2008
A coalition of American Muslim groups is demanding that Sen. John McCain stop using the adjective “Islamic” to describe terrorists and extremist enemies of the United States. Muneer Fareed, who heads the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), told The Washington Times that his g...
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Of course, Hillary is part of the problem, because she embraces this dichotomy and tries to use it to her advantage (taking photo-ops of herself doing shots in a bar, dissing economists, and so forth all while she withholds disclosing her 100 million dollar piggy bank). In her increasing despera...
go to article »April 8, 2008
Things that have proved tricky for Mr Obama at home are a boon for him in parts of the Middle East. That his middle name, Hussein, is reckoned to be something of a liability in America is in turn seen in parts of the Middle East as evidence of American Islamophobia. Mr Obama’s first name a...
go to article »April 4, 2008
Algerian Nouri the Moor takes on the Angry Arab News Service's Dr Assad Abu Khalil and his references to the White Man. “When the Angry Arab repeatedly rails against the White Man and those who seek to please this White Man, he tells us something about Arab Americans,” he writes. ...
go to article »March 7, 2008
Abu Aardvark on Hillary Clinton’s Middle East policy: Her Foreign Affairs essay says not a single word about public diplomacy or the war of ideas, or even hints at the notion that there might be a vast, complicated Muslim world out there beyond al-Qaeda impatient for real dialogue with a post-B...
go to article »March 4, 2008
A couple of months ago (and several times up til now) I registered my displeasure with the fact that the primary assumptions resulting in many of the failed policies of the Bush Administration (and indeed the previous one) were not being questioned in the primary presidential debates or even in the ...
go to article »February 26, 2008
It is very much known to readers of this blog that I find Rudy Giuliani to be the most repugnant individual to have entered the Republican primary race this past year. I rank him above Mrs. Hillary Clinton in terms of idiocy and potential detriment to the United States of America, only because of hi...
go to article »February 14, 2008
Realistically, Clinton seems to have difficulty winning anywhere she can't mobilize racial polarization in her favor. Obama has, of course, deployed polarization to his benefit in a number of states (South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Louisiana most notably) but he's also dominated the states wit...
go to article »February 11, 2008
Mitt Romney dropped out of the Republican primary race this week after a poor Super Tuesday showing. It is generally agreed that this has made it possible for Senator John McCain to take the nomination. The New York Times has a piece retracing the Romney campaign's missteps (placing a special emphas...
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