In September, a dozen cartoons were published in Denmark critical of Islam, some depicting Muhammad, the prophet and founder of Islam, in an unflattering light. Many Muslims consider it blasphemy to print any image of Muhammad. One cartoon depicts Muhammad with a turban in the shape of a bomb. Another …
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Grandfather Memories
My grandfather would have been 106 today and has been dead for twenty-one years. I still miss him.
Read More »Black History Month: Necessary and Compelling Reasons to Celebrate It
It is essential that every American study and understand black history simply because slavery was such an ugly part of our collective history.
Read More »Our Story Is Not History For Everybody
Colonial attitudes have proven unwieldy in the past and have caused nothing but trouble; don't you think it's time we tried something different?
Read More »Speed Kills, Not Video Games
Video games don't kill people - people kill people.
Read More »Book Review: The New Single Woman by E. Kay Trimberger
There's something here for anyone, particularly any woman, who wants to address the question: "How can I have a good life?"
Read More »Our Glamorous World
Being under "a glamour" used to mean being under a spell. Now, well it means pretty much the same thing doesn't it?
Read More »Police Beat Fleeing Bad Guy, Society Weeps – Boo Hoo
To which my response is: thank you police officers, and shut yer yap society. Where’s the controversy? A suspicious individual leads police on a high-speed chase during early-morning school hours, rams into a police car (this is considered assaulting a police officer with a deadly weapon) and then flees on …
Read More »Arab Idol Show Heads to Finals
The success of SuperStar, the Arab world's answer to American Idol, is a pulsating arrow pointing in the right cultural direction.
Read More »James Frey and an End To Sharing
Frey's true legacy may be that he helped bring an end of sharing oneself, and we can go back to sharing chocolates and comics.
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