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She Would Have Turned 60 Today
I wrote this in 2010, but have not published it until today, February 28, 2020. I wrote the headline today, but I have not otherwise updated time references. Twenty-seven years ago, on October 16, 1983, a deeply troubled young woman let go of her last hold on life, and tumbled off the Golden Gate Bridge.…
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Dictionaries: A Modern-Day Morality Play
“If you don’t look up the words you don’t know, you don’t deserve the beauty of literature,” my teacher said. Four decades later I still feel the lash in her voice.
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Seeking More Muslim Heroes
Unlike the thugs who killed him, Merabet had assimilated into French society, while retaining his Muslim identity.
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Vladimir Putin as Peacemaker?
I’m more inclined to believe in the Tooth Fairy. Obama may have set one more trap for himself.
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Islam May Not Be the Enemy, But the Enemy Is Islamic
Ayaan Hirsi Ali has earned the right to be critical of Islam. She was raised as a devout Muslim in Somalia and Kenya. At the age of five, her genitals were cut in a barbaric Somali ritual at the insistence of her Islamic grandmother. In her twenties, her Islamic father gave her in marriage to…
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Civil Rights, and the Intersection of Race and Sexual Orientation
Not long after the Presidential election last year, the Web Goddess and I had dinner with four of our closest friends, who happen to be a black couple and a lesbian couple. There was exactly one McCain voter in the room.
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Muslims Against the Ground Zero Mosque
When I first started hearing about it, the controversy over a proposed mosque near the gaping hole where the twin towers once stood seemed like an annoying distraction. I wished the whole discussion would just go away. I sympathized with the visceral opposition to a monument to Islam near where fanatical Muslims killed so many…
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My Kind of Dangerous Muslim Jihadi
Mad props to Sayyid Imam al-Sharif, better known as Dr. Fadl, for attacking al-Qaeda from the jihadi perspective. (Hat tip: Cliff May) Half an hour ago I had not heard of Dr. Fadl, but apparently he is an al-Qaeda co-founder. Remember that when al-Qaeda was founded, its primary mission was not to terrorize America, but…
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Facebook Continues to Peddle Scams To Its Members
(Welcome, Social Media Today readers. While you’re here you might want to look at other posts under my Social Media tag.) Several weeks ago, I wrote about having been taken in by an IQ test scam on Facebook. Lots of other people have also written about that and other scams. Somehow I naively thought…