June 2006

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  Nomad Fatwa I: Life

  06.14.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  In a shameless attempt to garner more content for CM [and also to recycle some oldies but goodies], I decided to sit at the cool kids table set-up by eteraz of eteraz-fame. “The Nomad Fatwas is an alliance of free-thinking blogs and a carnival simultaneously. Every two weeks myself and nine other blog-friends of mine [...]

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  Hadji Girl

  06.13.06 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  “dirka dirka muhammad jihad / Surpa surpa bakala / Shoulda known they were fucking with a Marine.” - A Marine sings about life in the Iraq lane. CAIR protests. Life goes on.

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  Paristan

  06.12.06 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  Paris and Nicole trade in their designer dresses for traditional saris when they take over the responsibilities of a traditional Pakistani mom. With the patient help of their “husband” and Americanized fifteen-year-old “son,” the girls manage to dress, speak and dance like conservative Pakistani housewives… the mind, it boggles.

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  Asymmetric Reading

  06.12.06 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  A briefing… but not even an empty notepad for the CIC? Oh, wait. I remember. There is someone briefing the brief.

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  Run, Rabbit II

  06.09.06 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  I see that Amitav Ghosh had the misfortune of reviewing Updike’s The Terrorist in the WaPo. Ghosh has struck the pitch perfect note here:
  With innumerable lives at stake, when Jack Levy finds himself faced with the task of giving Ahmad a reason to live and let live, he says: “Hey, come on, we’re all [...]

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  Now What

  06.08.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  I am glad they got Zarqawi. Very glad. He was an evil terrorist who killed innocents in Iraq and Jordan. He was also a deliberately constructed and hyped one.
  Mary Ann Weaver’s The Short, Violent Life of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi - soon to be the most linked article of the month - in The Atlantic [...]