The news is going around breathlessly that 50.4% of births in the US in the past 12 months were to families categorized as ethnic minorities, presaging the time when ‘whites will be a minority’ in the US. The unselfconscious deployment of these categories just takes your breath away. Who gets...
Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi addressed Egyptian troops on Wednesday and attempted to raise their morale for praising them as the guarantors of Egypt’s security. Al-Masrawi reports: “Field Marshal Tantawi said, “We are heading in the right direction.” He deplored the allegations that sometimes issue from activist organizations “that we are...
I singlehandedly keep this bar afloat. My heart has bled with repentance a couple thousand times. But if I don’t go on sinning, what would divine mercy do? He can’t bestow forgiveness unless I keep falling off the wagon. Translated by Juan Cole from Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat, [pdf] Whinfield 130
Angus Stickler writes at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism: British troops have been banned from transferring suspected Taliban prisoners to the Afghan authorities because of claims of torture by local forces. The move, which follows a ruling by the British High Court, is a blow to Nato countries that want...
"I spoke as my heart inspired me, saying, You are not like a leper, Marta, even if you have dwelt among tombs, and you are not unclean, even if life has given you into the hands of the unclean. The body's filth cannot touch the pure soul, and snow drifts cannot destroy living seeds. This life is but a threshing floor of sorrows in which souls have their adversities sifted out before their yield. But woe unto the spikes of grain left outside the threshing floor, for the ants of the earth will carry them and they shall not enter the granary of the field's owner...." ~ Kahlil Gibran - Translation by Juan R. I Cole Spirit Brides
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