Archive for the ‘Islam’ Category

Oh Brother. Here we go again in Iran (Vietnam, Iraq, etc.)

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

As a novice follower of history, this sounds so eerily familiar.

“Fifth Fleet commander warns of ‘unprecedented tension’ in Gulf”

They’re making it sound like the wrong Iranian mine strays and hits a boat in the Gulf, then it’s World War III (with Iran and whoever supports them).

Haven’t justifications for war been manufactured/trumped up before through naval exercises off the coast of another country? Spanish / American War?  Gulf of Tonkin? Someone help me out here.

Anyway, when I pray, I pray that this won’t happen.

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Anti-Islamism, and Its Connections with the LDS Church, Mormonism and Anti-Mormonism

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

To me, this interview was profound.

First, some background.

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On a main street in Amsterdam in late 2004, Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh was murdered by a Muslim assailant outraged by Van Gogh’s film depicting Islamic oppression of women.  A death-threat letter left stabbed to his chest was addressed to the woman who is the guest: the Somali-born, Muslim-raised critic of Islam, Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

Hirsi Ali wrote the screenplay for the film Van Gogh died for. At 22, she had fled an arranged marriage for asylum in the Netherlands. She became a Dutch member of parliament and a scathing critic of Islam, its treatment of women, and the Western multi-culturalism that, she says, tolerates too much.

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