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He does know that the Nation of Islam isn't the kind they have in the Middle East, right?
Christopher Hitchens--remember how much you loved him for speaking ill of anti-war advocates back in 2003? Oh, wait. Curious, Dan, how in approvingly citing Hitchens here you paper over that uncomfortable association and play up the easy Falwell bit.
It's pretty obvious Hitch knows nothing about this specific case and is just using it to hawk his broad anti-Muslim position. The whole "This would be racist if white people did it" canard is tired, no matter how witty its proponent.
He knows full well what the Nation of Islam is (he referred to them in God Is Not Great as "the heretical black-only 'Nation of Islam'"), and as long as they go around telling others what to do (never mind actually doing violence) in the name of religion, he's not about to let them do it quietly.
Whoops: "There is no official connection between YBMB and Louis Farrakhan's ... Nation of Islam, though it seems that Yusuf Bey Sr. did convert to some form of Islam under that sinister organization's auspices.)"
My bad. The bowties confused me. Still, this seems to be a thoroughly American form of Islam. Having about as much to do with Wahhabism as Jehovah's Witnesses have to do with Catholicism.
Thought somebody should point that out, just in case Hitchens is trying to use this incident as a case study to support his broader "the Islamo-fascists are coming!" mantra. Not that he would be that disingenuous.
He should stick to bashing God, Faldwell, and mother Theresa. I mean it, she was a world class bitch. Read his book The Missionary Position. He can keep most of his other views to himself as far as I'm concerned.
What a bunch of fucking hypocrites you are. You're all for bashing Christians all you want (I'm not a Christian btw) but keep your hands off the Muslims.
Ron Dellums has done more for the inner city youth and the residents of Alameda county than Cristopher "fat ass war supporter" Hitchens will ever do. So what if he is atheists? He is still a conservative douche bag.
He drops Dellums' name as if Dellums has anything to do with the nation of Islam or their silly religion or the bakery. That is just plain racist and offensive. Dellums' name is dropped because he is a progressive black mayor. What racist crap. Im surprised Savage cant seem to get over Hitchen.
Dellums happens to be the mayor of Oakland and a damn good one just like he was a great congressman back in da day.
Yes its great that he trashed Falwell, yes the nation of Islam is a silly stupid religion, but just because he is an eloquent atheist does not mean he is not a conservative douchebag.
Did anybody catch his stupid limey ass on Bill Maher giving the finger to the audience who booed his pro war positions.
elswinger: Are you on crack? Sloggers and Stranger writers bash Muslims constantly.
The whole "This would be racist if white people did it" canard is tired,
Why, exactly, is that canard tired? I saw it just the other day floating around in Lake Washington and it looked a hell of a lot healthier than that inbred domesticated "only white people can perpetrate acts of racism," thing engineered by YT Gilt Farms.
I used to pass the bakery after work every day. Hitchens aside, it's super scary. Also, I believe the "leader" was arrested for child rape.
We've been bashed for bashing Muslims. And Christians. And Scientologists. It's pretty much the Jews we leave alone.
And the eleven Jews in Seattle thank you for it, Dan.
@ 5
It takes a world class bitch to get done all Mother Theresa got done.
World Class bitches are awesome!
Overly sensitive today. Sorry.
It also takes a world class bitch to deny her "followers" pain medication and modern medical treatment (both of which her foundation could afford) & then to seek out the top specialist for her own heart problems.
Taking $$ from Papa Doc is also a bit bitchy.
You are right though some bitches are awesome. I amend my original statement. Mother Theresa was a cunt.
The Nation of Islam are a bunch of rightwing seperatist nutjobs.
Judah, lovely play on the two meanings of the word "canard." And I agree, it's not true that only white people be racist. Happily for me, I never said otherwise. Lovely false dilemma you've given us.
@10 He would bash the Jews, but we made sure the Elders of Zion had incriminating pictures of Tim Keck. Now dance for your Hebrew masters!
Ben: Yeah, lovely job you did of using a dictionary and ignoring my question. Why don't you just impress me some more and clarify your point.
Shari'a baking? I wasn't aware that black Muslims support shari'a.
Anyway, after conducting a simple Google search, it looks like Your Black Muslim Bakery is more of Your Average Neighborhood Crime Front, not the jihadist conspiracy that Hitchens claims.
Sounds like a money laundering front. They are probably a non-profit organization as well. Maybe the only reason the police aren't doing anything is because they already have undercover agents infiltrating the organization.
Judah, I actually did really like your bit about canards. I apologize if the sincerity of that comment did not come across.
It simply seemed to me that Hitchens's claim that this business would be shut down were it called White Christian or Aryan Nation bakery was trading in a very sloppy way of thinking about racism in this country. I agree, white people are not the only people capable of racism. But it is also true that the phrases "black power" and "Black Muslim" are not demonstrated to be racist by pointing out that "white power" and "White Christian" would be racist if used in their place.
According to ABC news, police have arrested a nineteen year (19!)old for the murder of Chauncey Bailey -- a good guy shot in broad daylight in downtown Oakland. Seven murders (!!!) have been committed in Oakland since Bailey was shot, 5 days ago. This is so sad, and so far from something that Ron Dellums can change on his own. They are at 109 murders for the year so far -- a ridiculously high number-- and 3.5 times the national average. Oakland cops are faced with an IMPOSSIBLE task -- and I'd imagine that Dellums is focused on that. This bakery is just one small corner of their problems. As an Oakland native it is heartbreaking -- no one can see their way through it.
I like that Hitchens is writing honestly, but as far as I can see the best comment on violence, race, and drugs in this country is HBO's The Wire. By far.
"Maybe the only reason the police aren't doing anything is because they already have undercover agents infiltrating the organization."
dude, you're giving the oakland police WAAAAAAAAAAY more credit than they deserve. the only thing they're capable of infiltrating is a box of donuts, and i don't think they sell those at YBMB.
Wait, there's another Ben that posts here?
Which one of use was here first?
@ 23,
I imagine if they were suspected of possible jihadist activities the feds/supposedly pros, would be infiltrating, not the local cops.
@ 24,
Use an initial or something.
Religion is not special however sometimes the people who follow it are.
It simply seemed to me that Hitchens's claim that this business would be shut down were it called White Christian or Aryan Nation bakery was trading in a very sloppy way of thinking about racism in this country. I agree, white people are not the only people capable of racism. But it is also true that the phrases "black power" and "Black Muslim" are not demonstrated to be racist by pointing out that "white power" and "White Christian" would be racist if used in their place.
I think Hitchens' point was that the terms "black power" and "Black Muslim" are as racist on the face of it as the terms "white power" and "Aryan Nation." Aryans for constitute an historically legitimate ethnicity which includes people from North India, Iranians and, possibly, Germans. Essentially they're Indo-Europeans. The term was in use a long time before Hitler got his hands on it and fictionalized it -- in much the same way that Islam existed for more than a thousand years before Elijah Muhammad came along and fictionalized it into a form of violent racist nationalism. The mythology of Islam promulgated by Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam is every inch the African American reflection of the racist pseudo-histories of the Third Reich. While the term "aryan" has fallen out of popular usage because of its association with Nazism, has too many other connotations to be bound exclusively to the American Nation of Islam. Nonetheless, the term Black Muslim is commonly taken to suggest the Nation of Islam and its racist ideology.
Likewise the term "white power" is derived explicitly from the "black power" slogan popularized by Stokely Carmichael and others in the 1960s. "White power" is, pretty much by definition, exactly as racist as "black power."
In conclusion, your inference that the terms "Black Muslim" and "black power" are politically neutral in a way that "Aryan Nation" and "white power" aren't is completely unsupported by the history of those terms and the organizations and political movements associated with them.
Couple of typos up there. I guess the main one is that: "Muslim" has too many other connotations, etc.
I think the whole race, religion thing etc. etc. is a distraction from just the standard racketeering that is going on. And the fact that, in the inner city, there is little anyone can do about it with the whole anti-snitching thing.
If I stop to think about it, and try to get my thoughts in order. Back in the day the nation of Islam was the thing for all of critisizm of being anti-white was keeping black neighborhoods FUNCTIONAL. (And they shot Malcom X too... right?) Building businesses, improving the economy. They were quite constructive and influential in the black community. They get their money, and their means of life, and they move out of the old community and into the rest of American society (whoever is left!). Now as an outside observer, it doesn't seem like the Nation of Islam gives much of a shit about what goes on in inside of the old neighborhood, it seems to be an organization more like your campus fraternity empowering blacks with knowlege and enough rage to improve their life but it doesn't make it out of a college campus, an intelectual discussion, or a lawsuit. I would NEVER put them in the same catagory as normal muslims, the fact that they are muslim is completely arbitrary. It's a means of empowerment in serious need overhaul.
Why Oakland PD refuses to coment on it? I would guess that there is no comment to be made. They were unable to undermine a scary racketeering enterprise ... with scant racial and religious overtones.
I don't know where this bakery fits into the picture, so I don't know if the phrase "sharia bakery" is applicable or not, but there is nothing Islamic about the Nation of Islam. Their version of Islam is retarded and unrecognized even as an apostate sect by any real Muslims. They read a translated Quran, for starters. There's more to Islam than putting the word "Islam" in your name.
The Nation of Islam aren't real muslims? I don't really buy that, it's like someone interpreting whether mormons are real christians. It's sort of a bull shit label and it really matters only to the person that postures them the most.
My folks once got into a MAJOR disagreement with one of the priests (raised catholic). Seems there was some funny stuff going on with alter boy schedual. I basically sat outside the rectory while my folks got crosses waved at them while they screamed and hollered that the priest was being a douche (which he was). My Dad told me that before he was a priest, he was a man. Regardless, the YBMB are crooks before they are muslims.
The Nation of Islam aren't real muslims? I don't really buy that, it's like someone interpreting whether mormons are real christians.
Uh, no. The differences are much more profound than the differences between Mormons and mainstream Christians.
The Nation is Islam is a bizarre offshoot/bastardized from of Islam. Nothing they believe (mad scientists creating the white race, etc.) has anything remotely to do with Islam. I would likewise contend that Mormons aren't exactly Christians in any conventional sense either- an offshoot for sure, but there are certain Mormon beliefs that would be considered heresy or alien across the board by any Christian sect.
A lot of NOI members end up leaving the NOI for traditional Sunni Islam- a lot of "black Muslims" are actually Sunni Muslims that happen to be black- in NYC, "black Muslims" often work with other Muslims and frequently share the same mosques. The NOI was actually moving towards a specifically Sunni orientation in the 1970s, but was steered back into the realms of insanity by Farrakhan once he consolidated power.
The idea of black Muslims is not inherently racist, it's more descriptive. The NOI, on the other hand, is explicitly racist and separatist in orientation- which I should point out is not compatible, at least officially, with the "catholic" aspirations of the faith. I think at the time they appeared, they had legitimate reason to promote separatism, as they lived in a blatantly racist society, one in which they were gravely exploited. But their belief system, even by the standards of the Jim Crow era, was and remains pretty kooky.
Splitting hairs ... nonetheless help me out on this one. I'm willing to give the Mormans and the Christians some credit ....
The Mormons have their own book in addition to the bible ... The Church of later day saints
They have this sort of perpetual prophet ... a John Smith/Bringham Young for all the generations to recieve guidance (revelations) from god.
And the most tiered out afterlife imaginable that rivals the catholics in convulution.
Am I missing anything else obvious. Whereas @30 tells us that the Nation of Islam just reads a translated Koran.
Maybe it's the nihilist in me, but I'm not really thinking any of this matters so much as it's fascinating in details.
religion in general tends to inevitably head in the direction of extreme, violent, and absurd. religion is perhaps the only area of adult discussion in which there is no intellectual accountability what-so-ever; simply state that faith is at work and you get to slide, no matter what you believe. this lack of rational diligence can lead a person anywhere, and given enough time will probably lead to violence of some sort as we have all seen, whether it's christian, muslim, hindu, or fucking heaven's gate. i think this is part of hitchens point: religion as a whole is a problem, yet certain religions get kit glove treatment in some circles (islam) while others get greater scrutiny (christianity, or vise versa). i personally think that a rational and logical approach to the world is a much better foundation to build from than any faith based view point.
I don't think religion is the problem. It's the whole notion that there is only one universal truth, and I'm going to cram it down your throat until you believe me or die. I have no qualms with angry people finding inner peace. I just wish people would accept that what makes one person happy won't make another person happy. I like being a vegetarian, yet I don't advocate that life style for everyone. I am accepting of the fact that other people do not think 311 is a great band. I enjoy them, and am very happy to do so and occasionally enjoy the company of others that do the same. Much the same, if being a biggot black or white works for you, that's great it's a free country. Not everyone get's the same truth.
Well, you can go around and around with "who's a real Muslim" -- and every Muslim sect does. But the Nation of Islam don't really have ANYTHING to do with Islam. They don't know or care anything about the Quran, which is pretty critical; every other, and I mean EVERY other Islamic denomination is founded on the word of Muhammad in the Quran, and the many hadith, even as they disagree about what counts as a legit hadith. The NOI is fundamentally ignorant of all that scripture. And they don't know any Arabic, which is an absolute requirement of every real Islamic denomination Sunni or Shi'a.
Of the various precepts of Islam, in all of its many varieties, the NOI understands none of them.
In addition, they have a heretical belief that their founder WD Mohammad was the Messiah and the returned Mahdi. This is completely against all Islamic teachings in every other sect. No Muslim believes God has appeared on Earth -- Muhammad was not divine, he was a prophet, like Abraham, Jesus, etc. That's a pretty massive difference, and it is absolutely unique.
A Mormon, in constrast, believes his book is another book in the Christian tradition, and knows his Christian Bible well.
Basically, the Nation of Islam owes nothing whatsoever to real Islam except some of the names. It's cod-Islam, created out of whole cloth by people who did not actually have any knowledge of Islamic beliefs or practices. None of their theology resembles Islamic theology at all; they're not just apostate but completely ignorant of it. Embarrassing, really. It's all about the conflict between (satanic) whites and (holy) blacks.
You and I could start a religion called the "Slog of Islam" and make up a bunch of rubbish about rabbit costumes and the Sacred Compact Flourescent Bulb and it would be as much "Islamic" as they are.
The NOI's bullshit is particularly apparent when you consider that its most famous exponent, Malcolm X, became a Sunni Muslim and denounced the teachings of the NOI altogether.
Hey, thanks for the education everybody! I'm learning all kinds of interesting stuff. Tremendous!
That was a hell of a lot more informative and discriptive than what you previously put down. Very very interesting, and sadly, at times comical. Still, the mormans ... not everyone is cool with the Mormans, many neo-cons are warry of their new allies, and this is one of reasons why Mitt Romney desperately tries to downplay his mormanism.
You say that NOI doesn't even read the Quran or Arabic. I'm not aware of any sect that has added a holy book to Christianity and made it main stream since the gnostics. I think the bible has been largely condensed since the middle ages. Adding, loosing books ... it's trivial. As for the whole notion of language, that is only controvercial to the catholics. The whole second coming of god thing, is a fun passage in revalations, but the perpetual coming .... that is a little out there, kind of makes me think of god pharoah.
I'm sorry, it's still splitting hairs, Mormans aren't exactly real Christians either, but at least they're NICER about it.
They aren't inflaming racial sensitivities of this nation. Outiside of Utah, they seem to be reasonably humbled and accepting of how the rest off the country lives their lives. It's like, I get the impression they do their two years of service to spread the word of morman, and then they are more than satisfied that their neighbors are going to hell ... at least until they vote.
@36, i agree that tolerance is very good, and that the dogma of universal truth is problematic. however, my point is that until religion is held to the same standard of reason as every other human endeavor, (i.e. prove your claims before they are taken as fact), there is no stopping people from believing whatever they fucking have "faith" in, which will include universal "must be enforced upon others" truth. and, since religion tends to function outside the boundaries of reality, it will never be accountable to a rational intellectual standard. thus, religion is, in and of itself, a bit of a problem.
You want my honest interpretation ... Why mormans claim to be christians, why NOI claims to be muslims, why Scientologists claim to not be a religion at all ...
It's to instil legitimacy in the world and trust into potential followers.
More importantly, the Mormons didn't start their religion with the express purpose of using someone else's religious tradition to cover their own program of race hatred. Their beliefs may seem kooky to non-believers, but it's a real religion. NOI is just gibberish outside of the context of hate. They literally believe that black people are divine and white people are devils -- literally devils. The rest of it is cobbled together with as much attention to reality, consistency and detail as any other hate group, like Aryan Nation or Christian Identity.
They also gain from their program of obfuscation, confusing the issue of Muslims who are black versus Black Muslims, which makes casual observers think they're just another kind of Muslim, and that American Muslims like Dave Chappelle support them.
@ 41
I'm sorry to say, to you think most people are capable or want to make their own decissions? We're all lazy, and well ... understanding everything is hard. Genetic engineering, computers, and since education is lagging, people would rather pray to find some sanctuary.
I'm not actually against this ...
There are so many things that happen in our lives that defy reason, freak accidents lost loved ones that some people NEED some semblence to justify it ... religion is one or those things. You and I, maybe we are just angry people, bight the bullet and take it on ourselves ... I don't know. But saying god took my right hand for reason is much more comforting for some.
Not exactly a bad thing ...
Then there are just some things in this world where the rational explanation isn't exactly comforting. Karl Marx's notion of religion may be the opiate for the masses, but opium feels good.
But I'm not trusting it either, yet I don't expect most people to follow my lead. It's issolating sometimes whene you feel the universe is a vacant meaningless place.
@41, having a scientific approach to the world does not inherently make the world vacant, or meaningless. other people will always exist, and it is in other people that true meaning in this world can be found.
i do understand the comforting effect of a higher power and the opiate-like effect of religious belief, however, i do not think this is a good thing, nor do i think that it should be fostered or encouraged. delusion will not lead to anything positive in the long run. for example, say global warming causes massive flooding in some area of the world. we could say, "well that's what god wanted" and all feel comforted in divine wisdom, or we could figure out what caused the flood and come up with solutions that will help prevent future disasters. i choose the latter option.
additionally, belief in god and a rational, logic based view point are not mutually exclusive. you cannot disprove that god exists, thus god is an idea on the shelf waiting for some backing, fully in the realm of the possible. however, one also cannot say that god does unequivocally exist and thus one's use of god as a justifier is limited or eliminated, as it should be.
oops, i meant @44. i wasn't being very scientific there.
Hitchens isn't saying it's a jihadi front. Only that it was given a wide berth because it claimed to be a religious... uh... bakery. And we give religious-ish groups and individuals the benefit of every doubt. Until someone's dead.
Who cares whether they are "real" Muslims or not? It's like arguing what is real astrology and what is not. Hitchens is right that these guys were given way more latitude than they should, only because we have been taught to "respect their beliefs" regardless of how obnoxious and kooky they may be.
i agree with dan and tiffany.
No Communists in my car! No Christians either! -Bud
also, dan, religious people and groups are given the benefit of the doubt after people are dead. this shit has been killing people for centuries; respect for religion is given greater weight than human life, and for what? so we don't offend people's "deeply held beliefs". i say fuck religion. that may be pretty extreme, but i'm sick of people hiding behind fairytales and demanding respect for beliefs that haven't earned it.
Most of the ideology people subscribe to is faith based. Politics rarely have anything to do with rationality. There are whole belief systems this country relies on to keep getting up every morning that have no basis whatsoever in anything other than simple belief. That's the problem with the Dawkins/Hitchens line: it assumes that religion is unique in its ability to inspire people do do stupid or awful things. I disagree wholeheartedly. In order to enter into this idea, we either have to expand the meaning of religion to broadly mean any irrational ideology (half our political "values" would go out the window under this criteria) or concede that religion is one specialized area of thought among several competing, but equally unfounded and/or stupid ideologies. Capitalism has killed people, communism has killed people, liberalism has killed people, sectarians have killed people, socialists have killed people, anarchists have killed people, imperialists have killed people, nationalism and fascism have killed people, tribalism has killed people, clan warfare has killed people, science has killed people, pseudoscience has killed people, agrarianism has killed people, familial bonds have killed people, honor has killed people, altruism has killed people, greed has killed people, etc. And usually, not for very good reasons, or for misguided reasons. The belief in progress that progress that characterized the 19th century led into the bloodiest century yet, the 20th, which was characterized by a number of secular ideologies brutalizing each other for some vague idea about the "future."
OK Jay we get your point. You think that irrationality is swell.
I'm not saying all these ideas are equal, but that each of them have been used as the pretext for mass slaughter or moral grandstanding at one time or another. At some point, almost every ideology has claimed for itself the role of religion.
For example, I consider neo-liberalism a kind of secular religion- it's an ideology many people support based on vague ideas about society and the role of the individual in it, and people act on it whether the policies work or not, even when those policies are outright destructive. Leninism was the same way- it was a series a thoughts people decided they wanted to believe in and then was imposed as a state religion. Faith in Marxism or faith in the free market have the veneer of rationality, but for most of these ideology's supporters, belief in them has nothing to do with rationality.
Yeah, Tiffany that's it! It really sounds like your idea is really well informed historically! I mean your uncompromising, vindictive, and stupid view of religion and belief sure is rationally thought out and developed!
I'm an atheist myself, but I find self-righteous atheists to be generally awful people with humorless dispositions who take for granted the "logic" of their position. If you think human society is about rationality, you're as deluded as the Mormons.
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According to that article, YBMB has had a long history in that community, most of it good.
The group has deep roots in Oakland's life and politics, and for decades it played a positive role in Oakland's black community, said Cal State East Bay professor Benjamin Bowser, a sociologist who has chronicled the city's history.
The group served as an example of upward economic mobility in an impoverished community, and its members tried to serve as a buffer against the rising drug trade, Bowser said. The bakery has also long provided ex-convicts with one of the few places they could work after being released from prison.
There's no evidence that these guys are religious fanatics, despite what Hitchens says:
Now, I'm just asking, but: rape, polygamy, intimidation, torture, murder, all these actions emanating from one address and some of them performed in the name of a fanatical ideology. What does it take before the police decide to raid the premises? Should we wait until unveiled women are attacked on the street or until honor killings or female circumcision take hold?
There's no reason, aside from Hitchens' raging paranoia, to think that YBMB advocated for violence against women.
This official apathyamounting to collusionis undergirded by a culture that cringingly insists on "respect" for any organization, however depraved, that can masquerade as "faith-based."
Bullshit. The Oakland PD had been conducting a year-long investigation into the organization. Besides, this is fucking Oakland. Has Hitchens ever been there? Violence and crime, and police inaction, are par for the course.
This group is made up of common thugs and criminals. There's nothing to indicate that their actions are related to religion. There's nothing to indicate that they're fundamentalist, fanatic Muslims. They were protected by the organization's past positive history and by the intimidation of victims and neighbors, not by some sort of knee-jerk "respect" for religious organizations.
Thanks keshmeshi. Seriously. We live in hyperbolic times when arguments like Hitchens' are allowed to spin way out of control.
jay, i see what your saying, but religion is unique among virtually all ideologies. only religion has no requirements for evidence, reason, or any intellectual discipline of any kind. it is a type of thinking in which what is believed is accepted as right simply because it is believed. other ideologies at least have to justify some semblance of reasoned argumentation. religion is treated like a child whose belief in santa is ever so important. i mean, yeah you "believe" in gravity, but that doesn't make physics a psudo-religion, there's a line of reasoning and evidence going on there.
furthermore, the ills of the last few centuries, and the search for progress that caused many of them have been caused by booming populations which in turn were caused by the agricultural and industrial revolutions. in other words, extremely complicated factors too big to control and impossible for people in the midst of them to foresee. it's grossly over simplistic to state that the "belief in progress that characterized the 19th century led to the bloodiest century yet."
Ideology is a huge component in the miseries of the 20th century- it was the match that lit the powder keg of the demographic, economic, and social trends/forces you mentioned. That said, I agree that religion is unique among belief systems since it posits far more unfalsifiable ideas than secular belief systems- secular belief systems are discredited and we move on, religion though has more of a stranglehold on the imagination.
But religion isn't without its traditions of logic and reason. Christians, Muslims, and Jews all enjoyed periods of tremendous intellectual output- religion isn't all throwing one's toys; there are areas within all the major religions where theological issues are discussed vigorously and reasonably.
I think the problem with religion for me is the claim to universal truth someone mentioned above, the belief in salvation and an afterlife (which tends to cheapen life and prevent positive change), and the generally dogmatic approach much of it takes towards regulating everyday life. But I'm not inherently offended by someone believing in somewhat irrational ideas like good and evil or universal love- it's when these ideas are institutionalized into a political force that it becomes a problem.
I'm kind of with J ... and as a scientist (maybe an organic chemist) we are all at fault for the ills of the world. I'm not going to deny that global warming is happening or the major causes of it, but there are some things we really don't understand yet. It's not that the science is bad, it's just that well ... we don't know. Frenology was a great pseudo science that led to a LOT persecution over the ages, science has killed people in the halocaust. Religion is ... the god's honest trust, it's more of a microcommunity than a connnection to god. Or a spiritual connection. People do what they do to loose face with respect to the community. When you leave your faith, the hardest thing to do is to leave your family and your community. Fanatical muslims maybe are brain washed to preserve their lifestyle.
Religion is different, the Europeans invented it as we know it, and it's sort of a microgovernment. Yeah I'm an aethiest, but that is my choice, my life has left me here to this truth ... at least for now ... who knows.
If there is one truth, it's probably that there is none, there is always going to be conflict, there is always going to be war, disagreement, injustice, and there are always going to be people to try to make the world better and worse, and things run in waves. Whatever the force is... it just is. And we all wake up every day and some of us are gifted enough to live in a country where we go to school, think way too much and post this crap on the internet.
Don't just be hating religion.
Hitchens seems to have some good points, particularly about the problems with what kind of policework is rewarded in this country, but his context-free comparison of "Black Muslim Bakery" and "White Christian Bakery" is as disingenuous as a white liberal complaining that black people can say nigger and he can't. A majority population threatening to wipe out a minority community is different from a minority population threatening to wipe out the majority, although neither should be treated as admirable. The difference is, one is backed up by numerous historical (and ongoing) examples.
"Religion is different, the Europeans invented it as we know it"
This is not true.
By the way, no one has really addressed why we are talking about this, because they have bloody hands in numerous killings. I still say it's a front for the mob. The Italians and Irish have been doing this shit for years, the are just taking a page from the playbook.
Yeah, the Europeans kind of took religion to a new level. It gets jumbled. If you go to China, they practice certain aspects of spirituality, worship their ancestors, buddhism, yet they never really submitted themselves to one gospel in the mannor that Europeans did. When the missionaries arived in China, and tried to save their souls. Something funny happened, they never really bought it. Europeans were befuddled, they had a this huge civilation lasting for so many years yet they had no central moral authority?
What causes their wars? Natural resources, regional pride, etc. etc. desire for power. Restoring order for the greater good.
Religion/spirituality .... the whole notion is so poluted and tainted in that it's impossible to discuss in a rational manor. In one sence your defining a community, and taken to the extreme you are defining a cult. In the other sense you are seeking a grand meaning to it all.
Arguing against religion is like arguing against gun control. It's too fricken hard, and there are smarter people than you or I that can do it effectively ... because then you basically do the same religion tries to do. Homogonize and subjugate people into one doctorine ... and I have a hard time with it.
Guns don't kill people, people use guns to kill people. Religion doesn't kill people, people use religion to kill people. Get it?
"Arguing against religion is like arguing against gun control. It's too fricken hard, and there are smarter people than you or I that can do it effectively"
I agree that you are not equipped to argue this issue effectively, and I humbly request that you stop doing such a poor job of it in such a public way. Thank you.
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We're back with another 5-day trivia hunt!
Again, the rules: Every remaining day this week, I'll be presenting a specific challenge. Your job: come up with the answers and hold onto them! Why? Because on Monday, next week, you'll need them to solve a short puzzle. The first person to email in the correct answers and successfully show how you arrived at them (thus the title: How Did You Know?) wins a choice of any TWO t-shirts and book from our store. In addition to the above, we'll be awarding a... READ ON
The latest issue of mental_floss just hit newsstands. Rosemary Ahern's cover story chronicles 'The 25 Most Influential Books of the Past 25 Years.' This week, we'll be revealing five of those influential books here on the blog. And if this puts you in a subscribing mood, here are the... READ ON
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Jean Baptiste Camille Corot passed away 134 years ago this past Saturday. Claude Monet once said of his fellow French painter, "There is only one master here—Corot. We are nothing compared to him, nothing." A few facts about the painter of "Les Petits Denicheurs":
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Today (and tomorrow, since it happened in the middle of the night) is the anniversary of the Battle of Los Angeles "" not the Rage Against the Machine album, but the event that may have involved some UFOs and extraterrestrials. Here's a brief synopsis: Just a couple of months after Pearl Harbor, unidentified objects were reported floating over L.A. By 2:25 a.m. on the 25th, air raid sirens were going off and a total blackout of the area was ordered. At 3:16 a.m., U.S. forces started firing... READ ON
Kyoto, Japan, 1957. The actor was in town to shoot scenes from the movie Sayonara; the writer was there at the behest of the New Yorker to interview him. Capote portrayed Brando, now staring down the long middle stretch of his career, as an incessant, if sleepy, talker, someone who could drone on with an almost enviable self confidence. Wrote Capote, who had met Brando years before during his star-making turn as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire, "Now he looked at people with assurance,... READ ON
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We're back with another 5-day trivia hunt!
Again, the rules: Every remaining day this week, I'll be presenting a specific challenge. Your job: come up with the answers and hold onto them! Why? Because on Monday, next week, you'll need them to solve a short puzzle. The first person to email in the correct answers and successfully show how you arrived at them (thus the title: How Did You Know?) wins a choice of any TWO t-shirts and book from our store. In addition to the above, we'll be awarding a... READ ON
Blogger Andy Baio went on a search for localized (non-English) versions of the song "Oo De Lally," featured in the 1973 Disney movie Robin Hood. He managed to find thirteen different versions, from the original:
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CRYSTAL RIVER — Rumps rejoice! The "board of education" is headed for retirement.
Citrus County School District officials said they're ready to remove paddling as a form of punishment from their student code of conduct.
Paddling has been on the books in Citrus County for decades. But it hasn't been used for several years, and when school board members reviewed recommended code changes last week, board member Thomas Kennedy suggested getting rid of corporal punishment altogether.
Others agreed.
"I don't think there's anything we should condone about paddling," board member Pat Deutschman said.
Paddling was once considered an effective form of punishment.
School board member Ginger Bryant, who taught 28 years at Crystal River Middle School, said she occasionally used the paddle on unruly students.
"In some cases it was all we could do to keep a child in line," Bryant said Monday.
Student Services coordinator Cherise Cernich, who spent about 15 years as an assistant principal at Lecanto Middle School, said paddling occurred only when parents requested it instead of sending children to in-school suspension.
"It was never initiated by the school," she said. "Always by parent request. And it was very seldom."
Superintendent of Schools Sandra "Sam" Himmel, who grew up in Citrus County, said she recalled being paddled in kindergarten.
"There was a fire drill and I was finger painting," Himmel said. "I went to wash my hands while everyone left. They paddled me for not leaving for the fire drill."
Himmel said paddling no longer has a place in schools.
"A lot of things that were popular back in the day are not so popular now," she said. "For a lot of parents this is not their choice of discipline. That should be a parent's choice."
Deutschman, the board's senior member, agreed.
"Times have changed in the ways we discipline children," she said. "This is just a bygone era."
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Former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is reportedly being treated at a local hospital after becoming ill during a weekend visit to Charleston.
Santorum, a former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania and chairman of the advocacy group Patriot Voices, was said to have been in town to visit his son, who attends The Citadel.
"While traveling in South Carolina on Saturday, Rick Santorum became ill and was admitted to the hospital for a gastro-intestinal illness and dehydration," according to a statement posted on the Patriot Voices website. "He is feeling better today but remains in the hospital and is unable to travel to Iowa on Monday, April 15 for previously scheduled events."
He is expected to resume a full schedule later this week and looks forward to returning to Iowa soon, Virginia Davis, spokeswoman for Patriot Voices, said in the statement.
It remained unclear Monday just where Santorum was receiving treatment. Medical University Hospital and Roper St. Francis Healthcare said they had no information to provide.
An email sent to Patriot Voices seeking additional information received no response Monday.
Santorum's son is a freshman at The Citadel, and Saturday was the school's Recognition Day. That is when knobs escape the Fourth Class system and are welcomed into the Corps of Cadets.
Citadel spokeswoman Charlene Gunnells said she did not see Santorum at the event and could not confirm he attended Recognition Day.
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Mike has published flash fiction, short stories and longer work in various anthologies and magazines in the Netherlands and Belgium, including Cerberus, Manifesto Bravado, Wonderwaan, Ator Mondis and Babel-SF and Verschijnsel anthologies such as Ragnarok and Zwarte Zielen (Black Souls).
Obviously he lives in the Netherlands, in Hilversum which is close to Amsterdam. He has won awards for best new author and best author in the King Kong Award in 1991 and 1992 respectively as well as an honorable mention for a submission to the Australian Altair Magazine launch competition in 1998. More recently he has won literary awards in the Literature Prize of the city of Baarn and the prestigious Dutch Fantastels 2012 award.
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Marriott Chateau ChamplainDowntown, Montreal | 4 star hotelfrom $192
- An anniversary getaway to remember!
- Couln't ask for more
- Chateau Champlain was wonderful!
Holiday Inn Montreal Midtown420 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal | 3 star hotelfrom $94
- We were very pleasantly surprised with the Holiday Inn Midtown
- Great place
- Not awful at all
Sheraton Le Centre Montreal HotelDowntown, Montreal | 3 star hotelfrom $161
- Always stay here!
- The View? Cheers! The Staff? Jeers!
- Wonderful stay
InterContinental MontrealSaint-Jacques, Montreal | 5 star hotelfrom $168
- Great Hotel
- There are better options in Montreal
- Rude service, dust on the curtains and mold in the bathroom
Hyatt Regency MontrealDowntown, Montreal | 4 star hotelfrom $181
- Avoid this place if you can
- The Good and the Bad
- Excellent location and much more
Delta Montreal HotelSquare Mile, Montreal | 4 star hotelfrom $183
- Great way to end our trip!
- Disgusting
- Not a 4-star hotel
Delta Centre-VilleDowntown, Montreal | 4 star hotelfrom $183
- Only tried the revolving restaurant
- A nice place for families
- Right in between St. Catherines and Vieux-Montreal
Holiday Inn Montreal AirportSaint-Laurent, Montreal | 3 star hotelfrom $110
Hotel Omni Mont-RoyalPeter-McGill, Montreal | 4 star hotelfrom $172
- The best in Montreal
- Omini Mont Royal Just Right
- Great weekend getaway
Holiday Inn Select Montreal Centre-VilleDowntown, Montreal | 3 star hotelfrom $164
- We recommend this hotel
- A pleasant surprise
- Hotel was good enough for our stay
Fairmont The Queen ElizabethDowntown, Montreal | 4 star hotelfrom $180
- Loved every moment
- Bugs
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Gouverneur Hotel MontrealDowntown, Montreal | 4 star hotelfrom $132
- Best Location For Gay Village
- Tired Hotel
- Beautiful, Clean, Great service
Hotel Le Cantlie SuitesSquare Mile, Montreal | 4 star hotelfrom $140
- Nice, inexpensive hotel
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Sofitel MontrealSquare Mile, Montreal | 4 star hotelfrom $209
- Rather Impressed
- Beds to die for..
- Terrific French Hotel in the Quintessential French City
Crowne Plaza Hotel Montreal AirportSaint-Laurent, Montreal | 3 star hotelfrom $120
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Novotel Montreal CenterVille-Marie, Montreal | 3 star hotelfrom $138
- Good price, good location
- Pricy but worth it!!!
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Travelodge Montreal CentreDowntown, Montreal | 2 star hotelfrom $98
- Get what you pay for
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Hilton Garden Inn Montreal Centre-villeJeanne-Mance, Montreal | 5 star hotelfrom $167
BEST WESTERN Ville-Marie Hotel & SuitesSquare Mile, Montreal | 3 star hotelfrom $142
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The figures for May 2012 were just released and the US created only 69,000 jobs – the lowest number in a year. This translated to an increase in the jobless rate from 8.1% to 8.2%.
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We define a valuation on the field of rational number $\mathbb Q$ as follows. For example if we choose a prime number $2$ then for $x \neq 0\in \mathbb Q$, $v(x) = v(2^{n}a/b)= n$ where $n$ is an integer and $a$ and $b$ are relatively prime integer. I have a question, how do we extend this valuation explicitly over the field $\mathbb Q(2^{1/2})$. Thanks
The ring of integers of $\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt 2)$ is given by $\mathbb{Z}[\sqrt 2]$. The valuations of $\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt 2)$ extending $v$ can be deduced from the prime ideal factorization of $(2)$ in the ring $\mathbb{Z}[\sqrt 2]$. More precisely we have $$ (2) = \mathfrak p^2 $$ with $\mathfrak p = (\sqrt 2)$ a prime ideal of $\mathbb{Z}[\sqrt 2]$. Given $x \in \mathbb{Z}[\sqrt 2]$ denote by $v_\mathfrak p(x)$ the integer $n$ such that $x \in \mathfrak p^n$ and $x \notin \mathfrak p^{n+1}$. For arbitrary $\frac{x}{y} \in \mathbb Q(\sqrt 2)$ with $x,y \in \mathbb Z[\sqrt 2]$ set $v_\mathfrak p(\frac x y) = v_\mathfrak p(x) - v_\mathfrak p(y)$. A valuation $w$ of $\mathbb Q(\sqrt 2)$ extending $v$ is then given by $w(x) = \frac{v_\mathfrak p(x)}{2}$ (The $2$ in the denominator being the inertia degree of $\mathfrak p$ over $2$). I hope this is explicitly enough.


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What is the role of ICTs in Education?
Nowadays the role of Information and Communication Technology (ICT),especially internet in the education sector plays an important role, especially in the process of empowering the technology into the educational activities. Education sector can be the most effective sector to anticipate and eliminate the negative impact of ICT. Technology (internet) in another side can be the most effective way to increase the student's knowledge.
The main purpose of the Strategy for Information and Communication Technology Implementation in Education is to provide the prospects and trends of integrating information and communication technology (ICT) into the general educational activities.
By: Saverinus Kaka, S.Pd.
Nowadays, people are surrounded by many technological resources that allow them to have access to any kind of information, culture, people, etc. Internet, cell phones, blackberries, and some others, from the most common technological tools used by people, from any range of age, who manipulate those resources as important and necessary tools for their communication and social interaction. Thus, researchers and professors agree that technology must be a relevant tools used in learning processes in order to help students to approach current resources to achieve their future goals. However, during their learning process, some students are not able to conceive the idea that technological features could be a relevant instrument to reinforce their learning skills, due to some schools and institutions do not count with technological resources.
According to Victoria Tinio, information and communication technologies (ICTs)—which include radio and television, as well as newer digital technologies such as computers and the Internet—have been touted as potentially powerful enabling tools for educational change and reform. When used appropriately, different ICTs are said to help expand access to education, strengthen the relevance of education to the increasingly digital workplace, and raise educational quality by, among others, helping make teaching and learning into an engaging, active process connected to real life. Moreover, studies suggest that the full realization of the potential educational benefits of ICTs is not automatic. The effective integration of ICTs into the educational system is a complex, multifaceted process that involves not just technology—indeed, given enough initial capital, getting the technology is the easiest part—but also curriculum and pedagogy, institutional readiness, teacher competencies, and long-term financing, among others.
Improving the quality of education and training is a critical issue, particularly at a time of educational expansion. As globalizations and technology evolves, some teachers are more concerned about how to integrate technology to their teaching program and, also how to motivate their students to make a productive use of technology in order to improve their communicative skills such as listening, speaking, reading, etc. They realize how ICTs can enhance the quality of education in several ways: by increasing learner motivation and engagement, by facilitating the acquisition of basic skills, and by enhancing teacher training. ICTs are also transformational tools which, when used appropriately, can promote the shift to a learner-centered environment (Tinio, 7). On the other hand, some teachers focus their attention on the issues that ICT's represents in the public schools such as the access to all schools, the technical support, the economical benefits, etc. Hence, it is expected to inform the advantages and disadvantages to use ICTs in education, especially in public schools.
According to Ron Oliver, the use of ICT's has developed a diverse number of advantages in the field of Education and these benefits are not only for teachers, but also for students. Here we include a list of these advantages:
a) Competency and performance-based curricula:
The moves to competency and performance-based curricula are well supported and encouraged by emerging instructional technologies (e.g. Stephenson, 2001). Such curricula tend to require:
· Access to a variety of information sources
· Access to a variety of information forms and types
· Student-centered learning settings based on information access and inquiry
· Authentic settings and examples
· Teachers as coaches and mentors rather than content experts.
In this case, students and teachers gain access to higher bandwidths, more direct forms of communication and access to sharable resources, the capability to support these quality learning settings will continue to grow.
b) Information literacy:
ICT's encourages computer literacy that is helpful in an increasingly technologically orientated world. Already there has emerged a need for educational institutions to ensure that graduates are able to display appropriate levels of information literacy, "the capacity to identify and issue and then to identify, locate and evaluate relevant information in order to engage with it or to solve a problem arising from it" (McCausland, Wache & Berk, 1999, p.2).
c) Student-centered learning:
Technology has the capacity to promote and encourage the transformation of education from a very teacher directed enterprise to one which supports more student-centered models. Evidence of this today is manifested in:
· The proliferation of capability, competency and outcomes focused curricula
· Moves towards problem-based learning
· Increased use of the Web as an information source, Internet users are able to choose the experts from whom they will learn students using ICT's for learning purposes become immersed in the process of learning and as more and more students use computers as information sources and cognitive tools (e.g. Reeves & Jonassen, 1996), the influence of the technology on supporting how students learn will continue to increase.
d) Flexibility:
Students are starting to appreciate the capability to undertake education anywhere, anytime and any place. This flexibility has heightened the availability of just-in-time learning and provided learning opportunities for many more learners who previously were constrained by other commitments (e.g. Young, 2002).
Moreover, ICTs is an important tool when attempting to teach English as a second language, but it also has some disadvantages that can create problems for teacher and for the students, for example, most of the schools do not have the technological resources, some schools may have computers but the majority may not be working properly, or, they can have good computers but without internet service.
On the other hand, nowadays schools are working hard to obtain good technological equipments but teachers are not prepare to plan a class using ICTs, that is why teachers must be taught about how to use a computer, and then how to implement their knowledge. Another disadvantage about using technology in a classroom is that some teachers tell students to sit down in front of a computer and surf on the internet without the necessary supervision and that is when students can click on those consider as dangerous web pages in which pornography and disinformation are everywhere or they can enter to facebook and not working on the class activity, and the main reason of that problems is that teachers do not know how to prepare a class in which students can develop appropriated activities on the web.
To conclude, depending on many important facts like the necessary technological resources, the correct use of them and a good and complete training can ensure a successful learning and teaching process. It is important for teachers to give as much as they can in order to apply this useful technology in a good way.
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The Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre, a branch of Montreal's Segal Centre for Performing Arts was founded in 1958 by Dora Wasserman (June 1919– December 2003), a Ukrainian actress, playwright, and theatre director.
Their first play was The Innkeeper .[1] Dora Wasserman[2] directed over 70 plays during a period spanning over four decades. One review [3] said that "The most successful of these was A Bintel Brief, based on immigrants' letters to the advice column of the Jewish Daily Forward" (A Yiddish Language newspaper).
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So how can you tell garden variety burn-out from a real need for career change? Women's website Shine recently offered some suggestions that would work just as well for men. Watch out for these warning signs and if you suffer from several of them, consider taking radical action to revamp your career:
- Your Mondays Ruin Your Sundays Is your job so daunting that you wake up Sunday morning already dreading Monday morning? If so, get out now.
- You Don't Respect Your Superiors While you may not always like them, you should always have respect for your superiors -- they represent where you would like to be one day. If you don't, then the pay-off for all your hard work may not be what you wanted.
- Lack of Satisfaction or Accomplishment After hours and hours of work, you should be proud of yourself for a job well-done. Even for the most trivial of tasks, if you're happy knowing that you contributed in some way to your company, your job is worth sticking to. But if you are continually having "What does it all mean?" moments and never finding satisfaction or feeling accomplished in any of your tasks (granted, not every cup of coffee or copy made will feel meaningful), then maybe two-weeks notice is in order.
- Boredom By boredom, we don't mean you're sick and tired of making copies everyday -- that's a task no one enjoys. No, what we mean is you've become bored with the industry: you look at what your superiors are doing and don't find any interest in it and the job descriptions for positions above you sound dull as dirt.
- Misery Loves Company Do you find yourself gravitating towards the more disgruntled employees of your company, bonding over the anger you have towards your job? You tend to be the company you keep, so if you're attracted to a more miserable crowd, then you should get out before you become permanently bitter and cynical.
- Conflicting Ideals Try to pick a career that is relevant to your ideals. If you find that your job conflicts with your principles, save yourself the sleepless nights and restart your career search.
- Your Life Has Taken a Turn For the Worse If your animosity towards your job is affecting your personal life, end this career now. Your job should not force you to take frustrations out on the people you love.
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