May 2013
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Our Secret Agent George Lopez Helps Conceal Our... →
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O Mujahid, watch as our super secret operative George Lopez uses the enemy’s own media outlets to conceal our infiltration plans!
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Imperialism II Strategy Guide
Imperialism II is a turn-based strategy game.
The official strategy guide is OK, and its suggestions allow you to enjoy the game’s diverse features, but I want to share with you a much more effective method of winning games.[[MORE]]
The quickest way to win a game is to share a continent with multiple major powers and conquer them one at a time, all the while maintaining a strong economy by...
“One could just as easily say that about 70 percent to 75 percent of the people...”
– Ta-Nehisi Coates on the explicit racism of Stop and Frisk (via theatlantic)
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April 2013
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Today in Spanish class someone asked if "azucar"...
arabicproblems:
What I said was, “the Arabic word for ‘the sugar’ is ‘as-sukkar.’”
What I wanted to say was “ISLAM IS NOT A LANGUAGE.”
Introspection: Hypocritically Imposed on the Weak...
Jalees Rehman claims that German introspection after World War II resulted in a better Germany, and that USA Muslims should adopt this introspection in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings. An obstacle to introspection is “perpetual victimhood.” [[MORE]]
Citing psychological studies which showed that exposure to historical incidents of oppression of one’s group or nation led...
Ruin Their Labor Markets and Flood Their...
qaidausainfiltration:
While we plan our operations which fill them with terror, we must also work long-term to destroy their societies. Therefore, we must do all we can to send to the United States “illiterate, unskilled, low-skill workers” and our sick, elderly relatives and put them on “supplemental security and Medicare.”
My face 90% of the time in Arabic class...
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Our Operative Wael al-Kuwayti is Active in...
qaidausainfiltration:
One of the reasons for our training bases in Mexico and our efforts at entering the United States through its border with Mexico is to connect our operatives with Wael al-Kuwayti, who has been active in the enemy’s southwestern deserts for over six decades. When our operatives reach him, he will instruct them on the use of dozens of important weapons systems.
Andrew Sullivan Misunderstands Word Jihad
Andrew Sullivan, Founding Editor of The Daily Dish and former editor at The New Republic, responded to Glenn Greenwald’s column criticizing calling the Boston Marathon bombing attacks terrorism based on publicly available knowledge.
And when will they grasp that a religion that does not entirely eschew violence (like the Gospels or Buddhism) will likely produce violence when its extremist...
ردي على مقالة "المساواة لا تعني التماثل .. ليس...
هذه المقالة تبرر النظام الأبوي و كراهية النساء
أولا الكاتب الأمريكي فوكياما ليس ححة و بالذات يبالغ في انفكاك الروابط العائلية في الدول الغربة و له معارضون كثيرون من علماء الإجتماع
ثانيا الرجال لا يسرفون على أسرهم في بلاد كثيرة و من ضمنها بلاد معظم سكانها مسلمون مثل مصر حيث تعمل النساء المتوزجات بنسب عالية لتوفير القوت لأسرهن و ليس ذلك نتيجة الدعوة إلى تماثل الذكر و الأنثى بل هو تتيجة الظروف...
“I was born and raised in Miami and I drink cortaditos and listen occasionally to...”
– A head of a sleeper cell in Miami, Florida. The enemy will never know what hit him!
2nd-in-command: I’m lactose intolerant. Can I still drink cortaditos?
(via qaidausainfiltration)
Dan Froomkin's Temporary Tumblr Depository: How... →
froomkin:
Fred Kaplan writes for Slate that President Obama has called it quits in Afghanistan, to which I say darn right and about time.
But how many dead and wounded soldiers ago did he realize it was hopeless?
In the spring of 2009, Obama announced his decision to send what turned out to…
Dan Froomkin's Temporary Tumblr Depository: New... →
froomkin:
By Dan Froomkin
By this point, there really should be no doubt in anyone’s mind that torture was widely used during the last administration — and that nothing like that should ever happen again.
The new, comprehensive report out today from an august, bipartisan commission goes a…
Leaks from the Al-Qaida USA Infiltration Guide:... →
qaidausainfiltration:
Commander: O Mujahid! Listen closely while I instruct you how to infiltrate the United States of America in preparation for a future operation. Pay a coyote approximately 2,500 USD to help you cross the border from Mexico. Read a supplication prior to this journey, because many people die…
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Börgen S2E1 Shows Denmark Escalating Military... →
I’ve been watching Börgen on LinkTV. In Season 2, Episode 1, Prime Minister Nyborg changes the position of her party, The Moderates, on Afghanistan from expedited withdrawal of Danish troops to escalation with a 5-6 year timetable.
PM Nyborg adopts humanitarian intervention as a policy, calling her party’s anti-war positions obsolete. Four encounters change PM Nyborg’s opinion....
On Muslim Names: Rebuttal of Harold Rhode's "Would...
Harold Rhode wrote an article claiming that the naming practices of Muslim parents reflect Muslim societies’ violent nature.
The article of course has no statistics to back up Harold Rhode’s assertions. What percentage of Muslim children receives these names?[[MORE]]
There are are inaccuracies of translations. For example, fath فتح is also the term for spiritual insight. Hence the...
“When I sat on the bed across from Hissen, I just looked at him. His serious...”
– Dr Raghu helps a very scared little boy with sickle cell anemia overcome his fears. Raghu is a Canadian doctor working with MSF in Chad. Please leave your questions and comments for Raghu in the comments box below his blog post. (via doctorswithoutborders)
Law Day Poster Contest - Realizing the Dream:...
Who can participate? All public, private & home school students in grades 3-8.
Augusta, Georgia Law Day Poster Contest Entry Form (deadline April 26, 2013)
Augusta, Georgia Law Day Poster general information
Information about this year’s Law Day Poster Contest form the American Bar Association.
Whenever the ustaaza asks me to summarize the...
arabicproblems:
Lost in Palm Oil and Other Environmentalist Films...
Lost in Palm Oil by Inge Altemeier, 43 minutes
The Sustainable Star by ABC Australia, 20 minutes. A longer, 28-minute version is available on YouTube from journeymanpictures.
The Legacy of Exxon Valdez by Woody Landay, 14 minutes
Birth of a Movement by Paul Lynch, 8 minutes
Tingitana: Demographics, Islam, Modernity →
tingitana:
New reports are showing that Morocco’s fertility rates continue their rather dramatic downward trend. According to InfoMédiaire, Morocco’s High Commission for Planning says they have been halved since 1987, dropping from 4.5 children per women to 2,2 children in 2010. Part of the explanation has…
Tingitana: Afropeans at Yale →
tingitana:
I was fortunate to join and get to know about Rachida Lamrabet and Pap Khouma, two “Afropean” writers—as Dominc Thomas calls African writers living in Europe—at a panel in Yale’s Whitney Humanities Center. Rachida left the Rif region in Morocco at the age of two to live with her family…
March 2013
32 posts
occupiedmuslim:
My father, one of the most hetro, masculine, conservative Arab archetypes known to mankind—once said to me as one of my guy friends who had helped me cook [b/c I can’t] an assignment was leaving, “He would make a good wife for you. One day, you should propose.”
“On this Earth, some children have access to life-saving medications, and others...”
– MSF doctor Raghu writes about his team’s concerted efforts to help young Oumere survive and reflects on the bigger issues affecting children’s survival in Chad. (via doctorswithoutborders)
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Stop Solitary: Maine’s Commissioner of the...
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Letter I sent to Georgia Representatives Urging...
The original legislation proposed in both the House and Senate fixed some of the problems in the anti-immigrant bill HB 87 which Governor Deal signed into law.
Amendments to the legislation would “make it a crime for state and local government officials to accept any foreign passport as proof of identification unless the passport is accompanied by proof of legal immigration status”...
Whenever it's after midnight and I'm still doing...
arabicproblems:
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Nominate Bradley Manning for the Presidential...
Use the White House’s online form to nominate Private Bradley Manning for the Presidential Citizens Model. Read its criteria.[[MORE]]
Manning is 25 years old, and was born in Crescent, Oklahoma. Check the box that the work was done outside of his job.
In response to “Explain why your nominee should receive the Citizens Medal,” I wrote:
Private Manning, when he saw documents...
