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// The recent failed bombing attempt by an agent of Al Qaeda has predictably resurrected the old profiling debate. The thrust of the conservative position on this issue has typically been that we should not worry about people’s feelings when people’s lives are at stake. The liberals, meanwhile, typically say that profiling violates people’s civil [...]
// As if on cue, hours after Obama announced his big master plan for Afghanistan, a suicide bombing in Somalia was committed by the violent Islamist group Al Shabaab (which means “the youth” in Arabic), a group affiliated with none other than Al Qaeda. Few countries on this planet share a modicum of the backwardness [...]
// Being the biggest incident of Islamist violence under Obama’s tenure thus far (and the biggest incident in the US in a while), Fort Hood will likely continue to spark debate and controversy for some time about issues ranging from antiterrorism strategy to the nature of Islam. Case in point: a recent piece in the [...]
// I recently visited a blog on the Fox News website discussing an episode where the panelists were talking about the Fort Hood killings and Islamic terrorism. Numerous topics came up, but these two interested me: (1) Are Christianity and Islam comparable as religions? (2) Is Islam even a religion in the first place? Are Christianity and [...]
