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Posts Tagged ‘terrorism’
September 20th, 2011
I thought we were all past this
posted by Amanda KaplanSpencer Ackerman discusses at length the “dozens of pages of recent FBI training material on Islam that Danger Room has acquired,” each one exposing practices and teachings of blatant discrimination, racial profiling, and cultural ignorance.
September 9th, 2011
9/11 chronomania
posted by Justin Neuman
Under its congressional mandate to “examine and report upon the facts and causes relating to the terrorist attacks…[and] make a full and complete accounting of the[ir] circumstances,” the Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, better known as the 9/11 Commission Report, begins with a narrative timeline. In the simple past, in a voice devoid of interiority but rich in temporal data, the Report tracks movement in time and space.
August 29th, 2011
Democracy under exception
posted by Jean-Claude Monod
I agree with Kahn (and with Schmitt) about the fact that political theory should leave room for decision and exception. But to me, the main question is: to what extent? Are there no principles that admit no exception? When I read Kahn, as when I read Schmitt, I don’t seem to encounter any such principles—anything like what Habermas thematized in Law and Morality as “indisponibility,” that is, rights that are not at the disposal of the sovereign. Can the sovereign decide that torture is a legitimate practice? The answer, to me, should be no without exception.
August 22nd, 2011
Islamophobia and terror in Norway
posted by Jessica PolebaumAt openDemocracy, Sindre Bangstad writes on the domestic conditions in which Anders Behring Breivik concocted and attempted to justify his recent dual attacks on a government building and summer camp in Norway
July 28th, 2011
What federal agents are reading about Islam
posted by Charles GelmanSpencer Ackerman, at Wired‘s Danger Room blog, reports on the recommended reading on Islam provided to incoming FBI agents, as well as other documents obtained by the ACLU and the Asian Law Caucus pursuant to a recent FOIA request.
July 26th, 2011
Breivik and “Christianism”
posted by Amanda KaplanAndrew Sullivan discusses the difference between Christianity and “Chritianism” in light of the recent terrorist attack in Norway.
March 26th, 2011
Have the jihadis lost the moral high ground to the rebels?
posted by Mark Juergensmeyer
It has been a season of earthquakes, and the political ones in Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, and elsewhere in the Middle East may have shifted the moral high ground within Islamic opposition movements. Put simply, Tahrir Square may have trumped jihad.
March 9th, 2011
Brigitte Gabriel, Peter King, and the scrutiny of American Muslims
posted by Joseph BlankholmNew York Times national religion correspondent Laurie Goodstein has written a bio/exposé piece on Brigitte Gabriel: “Through her books, media appearances and speeches, and her organization, ACT! for America, Ms. Gabriel has become one of the most visible personalities on a circuit of self-appointed terrorism detectors who warn that Muslims pose an enormous danger within United States borders.”
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