- Inside America's Mosques - By Akbar Ahmed | Foreign Policy on Sun Sep 12, 2010 10:03 PM PDT
"In this environment of heightened intolerance, people focus on symbols, and no symbol is more representative of Islam than the mosque. But most outsiders have no idea what actually goes on inside mosques.
- The Talibanization of America - By Mosharraf Zaidi | Foreign Policy on Sun Sep 12, 2010 9:57 PM PDT
"Instead, when we try to explain what is happening in America, we simply say that a great country is going through a kind of Talibanization -- led by mullahs like Newt Gingrich, Pamela Geller, and the occasional Terry Jones."
- French attempts to outlaw the burqa strike a blow for the rights of women. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine on Sun Sep 12, 2010 9:48 PM PDT
" A huge amount of evidence goes the other way. Mothers, wives, and daughters have been threatened with acid in the face, or honor-killing, or vicious beating, if they do not adopt the humiliating outer clothing that is mandated by their menfolk.
- Welcome to the Fashion Apocalypse. - By Simon Doonan - Slate Magazine on Sun Sep 12, 2010 9:46 PM PDT
Grab your Goyard totes, girls! Gird up your loins with Gaultier girdles! The style armageddon is upon us! The final runway rapture is looming! Welcome to the Fashion Apocalypse!
- Mel Gibson's tirades are the distilled violence, cruelty, and bigotry of right-wing Catholic ideology. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine on Sun Sep 12, 2010 9:42 PM PDT
Every time Mel Gibson unburdens himself of a tirade against Jews or "n______s" or uncooperative females, there are commentators on hand to create a mystery where none exists.
- Â How bathroom posture affects your health. - By Daniel Lametti - Slate Magazine on Sun Sep 12, 2010 9:40 PM PDT
Posture is important, really!
- The dispute over the "Ground Zero mosque" is an object lesson in how not to resist intolerance. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine on Sun Sep 12, 2010 9:38 PM PDT
I don't like anything much about the Cordoba Initiative or the people who run it. The supposed imam of the place, Feisal Abdul Rauf . . .
