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Mahmood Mamdani - on the Good Muslim, Bad Muslim

By Mary Rizzo • May 22nd, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Interviews, Religion, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War

Back in 2005, the Italian weekly magazine Il venerdì della Repubblica published an important interview with Columbia University Professor Mahmood Mamdani, upon occasion of the publication in Italian of his book Good Muslim, Bad Muslim. At the time, I translated the interview into English, as well as publishing on my blog a segment from another [...]


Anatomy of a Conditionally Unresolved Conflict

By Gilad Atzmon • May 8th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Gilad Atzmon, Gilad's Choice, Israel, Our Authors, Religion, Zionism

According to Hegel, attaining ’self-consciousness’ is a process that necessarily involves the other. How am I to become conscious of myself in general? It is simply through desire or anger, for example. Unlike animals that overcome biological needs by destroying another organic entity, human desire is a desire for recognition.
In Hegelian terms, recognition is accomplished [...]


“Night to Honor Israel” extravaganza

By Mary Rizzo • May 6th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Hasbara Deconstruction Site, Israel, Religion, Zionism

Written by Charles Carlson From Religious Rant to Political Bombast to Spiritual Emptiness and Deception If John Hagee’s “Night to Honor Israel” extravaganza is any indication, Christian Zionism is a misnomer. From happy-clappy Jewish praise music, to love songs crooned to and about Israel, to a kitschy Hava Nagila; from invocations and benedictions that turn out [...]


Swindler’s List

By Gilad Atzmon • Apr 11th, 2008 • Category: Culture and Heritage, Gilad's Choice, Religion, Zionism

It is a common trend amongst rabid Zionists and notorious Islamophobes to quote some isolated and mistranslated verses from the Qur’an for the purpose of collectively libeling Muslims and presenting Islam as a regressive and violent belief system.
Needless to say, so far, such repetitive attempts have been found futile if not actually counter-effective. Not a [...]