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Over 100 Danish jihadists have gone to Syria and Iraq, one of the highest rates per person in Europe.
Over 100 Danish jihadists have gone to Syria and Iraq, one of the highest rates per person in Europe.
Posted by Christelle Nadia Fotso at 12:45 PM in europe, international politics, multiculturalism, Religion, terrorism, violence, War | Permalink | Comments (0)
Sugary excerpt from Justin Gest:
Islamophobia is inherently wrong. But if that is not persuasive enough, it is also an enormous strategic mistake in the struggle against Islamic extremism.
Posted by Christelle Nadia Fotso at 05:53 AM in bigotry, conflict, fundamentalism, Religion, terrorism | Permalink | Comments (0)
Ah enfin Shlomo Sand speaks on the attacks in Paris and as almost always adds much needed perspective to the debate:
Some of the caricatures I saw in Charlie Hebdo – long before the shooting – seemed to me to be in bad taste; only a minority made me laugh. But that's not the problem. In the majority of the magazine's cartoons about Islam that came to my attention over the last decade, what I saw was manipulative hatred, mainly designed to appeal to its (obviously, non-Muslim) readers. I thought Charlie's reproduction of the cartoons from the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten was deplorable. In 2006 – yes, already back then – I thought that the drawing of Mohammed wearing a bomb as a turban was a pure provocation. It wasn't so much a caricature attacking Islamists, as a stupid reduction of Islam to terrorism; it's a bit like identifying Judaism with money!
Some say that Charlie took on all religions indiscriminately, but what does that really mean? Certainly it did mock Christians and sometimes Jews. All the same, neither the Danish paper nor Charlie would go so far – fortunately enough – to publish a caricature presenting the prophet Moses as a crafty usurer loitering on a street corner in a kippah and tassels. It's a good thing, indeed, that in what people today call 'Judaeo-Christian' civilisation it's no longer possible to spread anti-Jewish hatred in public, like it was in the distant past. I am for freedom of expression, but at the same time I'm against racist incitement. I'll admit that I'm happy to go along with the ban on Dieudonné publicly expressing his 'critique' and his 'banter' about Jews. However, I am absolutely opposed to him being physically assaulted, and if by chance some idiot did attack him, I would be very shocked… but then again, I wouldn't go as far as waving a placard around bearing the words 'Je suis Dieudonné'.
Posted by Christelle Nadia Fotso at 08:24 AM in France, free speech, identity politics, Religion, terrorism, violence | Permalink | Comments (0)
This mistake in James D. le Sueur article's on the terrorist attacks,in Paris at the Walrus irks me because it isn't innocent:
French Muslim comedian Dieudonné M'bala M'bala—who already had established himself as a controversial figure—now faces up to seven years in prison for using Facebook to declare his apparent solidarity with the Kosher-market murderer ("Tonight, as far as I'm concerned, I feel like Charlie Coulibaly"). The arrest seemed hypocritical for a nation seeking to reaffirm its protection of speech—even highly irreverent speech.
Dieudonné isn't Muslin and is as French as Sarkozy. Thus, I wonder why his frenchness is always questioned when both his brand of 'humor' and his antisemitism are very French!
Posted by Christelle Nadia Fotso at 11:05 AM in France, free speech, identity politics, Religion, terrorism, violence | Permalink | Comments (0)
Hollow words from the POTUS used to grandstand:
Our biggest advantage is that our Muslim populations, they feel themselves to be Americans (...)There are parts of Europe in which that's not the case. And that's probably the greatest danger that Europe faces…It's important for Europe not to simply respond with a hammer and law enforcement and military approaches to these problems.
Ah I can't believe that some still believe that Obama gets the world because he claimed to be a citizen of the world!
Posted by Christelle Nadia Fotso at 06:31 AM in identity politics, immigration, integration, international politics, Obama, politics, Religion | Permalink | Comments (0)
Posted by Christelle Nadia Fotso at 11:01 PM in France, free speech, fundamentalism, Religion, terrorism, violence | Permalink | Comments (0)
Sugary excerpt of Monday from Eduardo Sabrovsky:
The exploration of the idea—of the sole legitimate Kantian idea, the idea of Europe—has led us to this conclusion: albeit peculiar, this idea is a religion. We often react with scandal at the Islamic notion of Sharia, Islamic law. This is because we are blind to our own Sharia. In the best of possible worlds, we should be able to understand that our ways and mores may be, for the Islamic world, as scandalous an unacceptable as theirs usually are to us. They have their strict prohibitions, their strange bodily practices; though we may not perceive them, we surely do have ours; when we look at our bodies in the mirror, we see a human body as such; we do not perceive it as formed—and thus, de-formed—by our particular culture. So, in the best of possible worlds, we would live in our particularity and let live others live in theirs. Why don't we?
Because 'we' disagree...
Posted by Christelle Nadia Fotso at 11:14 AM in europe, fundamentalism, Religion, tradition, west | Permalink | Comments (0)
A good question from Marco d'Eramo:
The question is, how has it come about that young Europeans are no longer prepared to sacrifice themselves for humanitarian, patriotic or socialist reasons, but are for religious ones? What have we done to them to bring them to this point? What's infuriating about the dominant discourse on Islamic fundamentalism, especially in Europe, is that it glides over structural causes and social alienation, and reduces everything to the implausible and useless category of 'insanity and fanaticism'.
That Isis are far from insane is demonstrated by the fact that, with two public beheadings, this motley crew managed to get itself recognised as the main enemy of the world's biggest superpower.
Posted by Christelle Nadia Fotso at 07:38 PM in bigotry, europe, fundamentalism, international politics, Religion, security, terrorism | Permalink | Comments (0)
(...) it is somehow odd for a Western politician to be telling anybody, however horrible and unworthy of respect: "You don't understand your own religion, but I do..."
Posted by Christelle Nadia Fotso at 07:39 AM in contradictions and betrayals, fundamentalism, international politics, Religion, terrorism, violence, west | Permalink | Comments (0)
(...) the fact is that the first world war was a time when Muslims were generally used as pawns in European imperial games—whether they were Indians who fought for Britain, Senegalese or Algerians who fought for France or Turks who fought on the German side. Fighting on any side in the first world war was a pretty miserable experience, and that certainly deserves to be remembered. But Islam's collective memory of that period is probably a bit different from the European one.
Posted by Christelle Nadia Fotso at 08:09 PM in europe, politics, Religion, trends, War, west | Permalink | Comments (0)
The sentence of the week from Andrew Koppelman :
If tolerance had to be based on a concession that the other guy's views are reasonable, there wouldn't be much tolerance in the world.
Posted by Christelle Nadia Fotso at 05:31 PM in bigotry, Religion | Permalink | Comments (0)
From Ayaan Hirsi Ali :
I am often told that the average Muslim wholeheartedly rejects the use of violence and terror, does not share the radicals' belief that a degenerate and corrupt Western culture needs to be replaced with an Islamic one, and abhors the denigration of women's most basic rights. Well, it is time for those peace-loving Muslims to do more, much more, to resist those in their midst who engage in this type of proselytizing before they proceed to the phase of holy war.
It is also time for Western liberals to wake up. If they choose to regard Boko Haram as an aberration, they do so at their peril. The kidnapping of these schoolgirls is not an isolated tragedy; their fate reflects a new wave of jihadism that extends far beyond Nigeria and poses a mortal threat to the rights of women and girls. If my pointing this out offends some people more than the odious acts of Boko Haram, then so be it.
I find Ali's predictability scary for it shows that she has stopped growing and thinking. Oh well, she is adapting very well to the American Western modern contemporary intellectual terrain.
Posted by Christelle Nadia Fotso at 04:07 PM in bigotry, contradictions and betrayals, fundamentalism, identity politics, Religion, terrorism, violence | Permalink | Comments (0)
I agree with Henry Farrell on this :
Bigotry derived from religious principles is still bigotry. Whether the people who implemented Bob Jones University's notorious ban on inter-racial dating considered themselves to be actively biased against black people, or simply enforcing what they understood to be Biblical rules against miscegenation is an interesting theoretical question. You can perhaps make a good argument that bigotry-rooted-in-direct-bias is more obnoxious than bigotry-rooted-in-adherence-to-perceived-religious-and-social-mandates. Maybe the people enforcing the rules sincerely believed that they loved black people. It's perfectly possible that some of their best friends were black. But it seems pretty hard to make a good case that the latter form of discrimination is not a form of bigotry. And if Friedersdorf wants to defend his sincerely-religiously-against-gay-marriage people as not being bigots, he has to defend the sincerely-religiously-against-racial-miscegenation people too.
Posted by Christelle Nadia Fotso at 10:41 PM in bigotry, ethics, Religion | Permalink | Comments (0)
I agree with Alex Massie on this:
All jihadists may be muslim; it is grotesque to suppose all muslims are potential jihadists. But treating them as though they may be is one way to increase sympathy for the real jihadists. Denigrating someone's sense of identity is one sure way of ensuring they will have less time for your point of view.
Posted by Christelle Nadia Fotso at 01:04 PM in Religion, terrorism, United Kingdom, violence | Permalink | Comments (0)
Just the facrs from Chris Dillow:
The fact that a terrorist is likely to be a Muslim does not mean a Muslim is likely to be a terrorist. Even if we assume that there are ten terrorists walking the streets for every one inside, then 99.988% of Muslims are not terrorists. To put this another way, there's only around a one in 8000 chance of a Muslim being a terrorist; it's 16 times more likely that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will name their child Wayne. Given all this, why does anyone think terrorism is a Muslim problem?
Posted by Christelle Nadia Fotso at 07:28 PM in fundamentalism, identity politics, Religion, terrorism, violence | Permalink | Comments (0)
I wish this were true:
Though it may be painful, though it may be costly at the polls in the short run, Republicans don't have a future unless they break up with the religious right and the gay-bashing, Bible-thumping fringe that gives the party such a bad rap with every young voter. By fighting to legally ban abortion, the party undercuts the potential to paint itself as a rebel against the governmental-control machine.
It is impossible for the Republicans to break up with the religious right, the best thing to hope for is an open relationship.
Posted by Christelle Nadia Fotso at 09:54 AM in fundamentalism, Obama's America, politics, power, Religion, trends | Permalink | Comments (0)
One of the dumbest things I have heard this fall from Fergus Downie:
Europe does not have enough of the inherited religious value fat required to sustain an ideological front against Islamism in the way that America occasionally looks like it might – and a scrupulous Weberian legalism is probably the best option available for a continent allergic to the cultivation of strong passions and the fanaticism of principle.
Posted by Christelle Nadia Fotso at 12:55 AM in America, culture, europe, Religion | Permalink | Comments (0)
A dumb, inaffective and dangerous suggestion from SA Hoseini:
It's high time a law was passed around the world prohibiting any kind of defamation or insult to religion — otherwise we are going to witness a repeat of this kind of grim news — again and again and again.
Posted by Christelle Nadia Fotso at 10:47 AM in contradictions and betrayals, free speech, fundamentalism, Religion | Permalink | Comments (0)
Sugary excerpt from Pankaj Mishra's review of Joseph Anton, Salman Rushdie's memoir:
Rushdie's neat oppositions between the secular and the religious, the light and the dark, and rational literary elites and irrational masses do not clarify the great disorder of the contemporary world. They belong to an intellectually simpler time, when non-western societies, politically insignificant and little-known, could be judged solely by their success or failure in following the great example of the secular-humanist west; and writing literary fiction could seem enough to make one feel, as Tim Parks wrote in a review of Rushdie's novel The Ground Beneath Her Feet, "engaged on the right side of some global moral and political battle".Indeed, such complacencies of imperial intellectual cultures were what Rushdie had bravely attacked in his brilliant early phase. "Works of art, even works of entertainment," he had pointed out in 1984, "do not come into being in a social and political vacuum; and … the way they operate in a society cannot be separated from politics, from history. For every text, a context." No text in our time has had contexts more various and illuminating than The Satanic Verses, or mixed politics and literature more inextricably, and with deeper consequences for so many. In Joseph Anton, however, Rushdie continues to reveal an unwillingness or inability to grasp them, or to abandon the conceit, useful in fiction but misleading outside it, that the personal is the geopolitical.
I am left wondering how much the personal even when it is geopolitical should matter in literature even when it is not fiction. Another way to phrase my discomfort would be to wonder how much who Rushdie is or isn't should affect not only how he is read, the value of his writings.
In short, I am butting heads with Mishra because although I am conceding to him that the personal is the geopolitical, I question the essential nature and even the meaning of that assertion...
Posted by Christelle Nadia Fotso at 05:28 AM in contradictions and betrayals, culture, different perspective , free speech, fundamentalism, literature, Religion | Permalink | Comments (0)
I agree with Glen Newy on this:
The assumption surfaces, predictably made by persons of faith, but surprisingly shared by many liberal secularists, that religious reasons are grander than others. (...) Practices that might count as grievous bodily harm if inflicted by secularists get legal protection if carried out by bearded hierophants.
One of the reasons why excision never really got 'the legitimacy' of its masculine circumcision is t that it doesn't have the backing of a Über religion (some religions are grander than others). People would have no problems killing the vagina of circumcising their daughters if there were a story in the bible about girls needing it to have a closer relationship with a deity.
Posted by Christelle Nadia Fotso at 01:45 PM in Religion | Permalink | Comments (0)
Sugary excerpt from Garry Wills on the Vatican's slap of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious:
Last week, following an assessment by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican stripped the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, representing most American nuns, of its powers of self-government, maintaining that its members have made statements that "disagree with or challenge the bishops, who are the church's authentic teachers of faith and morals." Archbishop Peter Sartain of Seattle has taken control of the Conference, writing new laws for it, supplanting its leadership, and banning "political" activity (which is what Rome calls social work). Women are not capable, in the Vatican's mind, of governing others or even themselves. Is it any wonder so many nuns have left the orders or avoided joining them? Who wants to be bullied?
It is typical of the pope's sense of priorities that, at the very time when he is quashing an independent spirit in the church's women, he is negotiating a welcome back to priests who left the church in protest at the reforms of the Second Vatican Council. These men, with their own dissident bishop, Marcel Lefebvre, formed the Society of Saint Pius X—the Pius whose Secretariat of State had a monsignor (Umberto Benigni) who promoted the Protocols of the Elder of Zion. Pope Benedict has already lifted the excommunication of four bishops in the Society of Saint Pius X, including that of Richard Williamson, who is a holocaust denier. Now a return of the whole body is being negotiated.
Just another proof that Sarah Silverman is right when she proposes to sell the Vatican to sell the world.
Posted by Christelle Nadia Fotso at 11:16 AM in bigotry, fundamentalism, Religion | Permalink | Comments (0)
Because I'm so thankful that it's Friday, just a sentence from Michael Walzer to make a potent point:
[...] when God is king, what need is there for human politics?
God is omnipresent in American politics and that it explains in part why it is so inhumane.
Posted by Christelle Nadia Fotso at 05:32 PM in America, fundamentalism, Obama's America, politics, Religion | Permalink | Comments (0)
Sugary excerpt from Adrian Hamilton with whom I disagree obviously and strongly (h/t Gilles Klein):
For all the public statements over the past few days on the need for national unity, France remains a deeply racist country. The threat of Muslim terror has allowed the French to transfer their resentments away from the Jewish population to the Arab one, and to feel the better for it. But the sentiments are exactly the same and made only the worse by rising unemployment and slowing growth.
I disagree with Hamilton because his assertion is as easy as it is stupid. It is always dumb to characterize a country as racist based on the traits of some of its citizens because that would make it possible to argue that Britain is anti-French and that America is an ignorant country. The point is that Hamilton makes critical mistakes because he doesn't know the context and is emboldened to make grand, empty, and mistaken statements by his complex of superiority undoubtedly created by his certainty to be right ad to come from a better/purer country; that might just be called racism for people who are Hamilton is eager to condemn with knowledge and too much self-sastisfying zeal.
Posted by Christelle Nadia Fotso at 09:53 AM in France, racism, Religion, terrorism | Permalink | Comments (0)
The sentences of the week and possibly of the year are from Anita Diamant:
The basic insight of feminism is that women are human beings. I don't think you can be a serious Jew and not be a feminist.
Ow, I'm all verklempt! I just wish someone would explain to me what it means to be a feminsit!
Posted by Christelle Nadia Fotso at 06:17 PM in feminism, gender, identity, Religion | Permalink | Comments (0)
This bit from Jack C. Chow arguing that a President Rick Santorum would be good for 'Africa' is as offensive as it is narrow-minded:
Alone among his rivals, Santorum has staked out global health as one of his preferred instruments of asserting American power abroad. He is the only Republican candidate to declare he wants to "keep and expand" Bush's humanitarian aid push in Africa. In contrast, Mitt Romney is "very reluctant to borrow lots more money to be able to do wonderful things" if other countries and groups do not contribute more; Newt Gingrich has called for government-run foreign aid to be replaced with private incentives; and Ron Paul, a physician, has asserted that "all the foreign aid in the world will not transform Africa into a thriving, healthy continent." [...]His record so far is promising. [...]He has couched aid programs as "one of our best international investments" and credited humanitarian aid and fighting AIDS as critical to winning "hearts and minds" in competing against the influence of "China and Islam" in Africa. "We have done more good for America in Africa and in the Third World by the things that we've done," he said at the Nov. 22 debate. "And we have saved money and saved military deployments by wisely spending that money not on our enemies but on folks who can and will be our friends." His reasoning echoes the arguments asserted by the late diplomat Richard Holbrooke about saving Africa from a demographic cataclysm caused by HIV/AIDS.
Chow's argument is offensive for two reasons. The first is that he makes the ignorant presumption that African countries are all the same and therefore that their sole priority is to battle Aids. The second reason is that Chow obviously believes that charity is what African countries need most from America is aid or rather charity.
Thus, arguing that President Rick Santorum would be good for "Africa" is as condescending as it is paternalist because it reduces very different countries to a single aspect Aids while asserting ideologically that they need to be saved by an American president who will believe that it is his religious duty to do so.
Posted by Christelle Nadia Fotso at 12:14 PM in Africa, bigotry, Obama's America, racism, Religion | Permalink | Comments (0)
Quote of the day from Saint and culture warrior Rick Santorum (hat tip: Alex Massie):
I understand why Barack Obama wants to send every kid to college, because of their indoctrination mills, absolutely … The indoctrination that is going on at the university level is a harm to our country.
I'm speechless! Even Newt Gingrich wouldn't say this, no correction, he would say, but he wouldn't mean it, the trouble with Santorum is that he means what he says.
Posted by Christelle Nadia Fotso at 12:51 PM in culture, Obama's America, politics, Religion, trends | Permalink | Comments (0)
Sugary except of the day from Norm Geras:
There are believers who, in the name of religion, act to silence, harm and sometimes indeed kill others, and there is, unfortunately, a lot of this sort of thing about. No secularist is obliged to adopt a relaxed attitude towards it. On the contrary, in defence of freedom of belief, they should be intolerant of it. Secularism, just like genuine liberalism, does not entail tolerance of the appeal to religion to justify intolerant, cruel or murderous ends.
Posted by Christelle Nadia Fotso at 09:28 PM in conflict, fundamentalism, Religion | Permalink | Comments (0)
Sentences from David Kopel to munch on this Sunday:
I find it disgusting that a Gallup Poll found 22% of Americans (18% of Republicans, 19% of Independents, and 27% of Democrats) say that they would not vote for a well-qualified candidate of their party who happened to be a Mormon. That's actually an increase compared to 17% who gave the same answer in 1967.
Another argument for politicians making their religious faith private instead of showing it off as they do their wives.
Posted by Christelle Nadia Fotso at 10:14 AM in Obama's America, politics, Religion | Permalink | Comments (0)
Sugary excerpt from Hanif Kureishi:
I come from a Muslim family; I come from a Muslim country: Pakistan. I'm well aware of how dangerous religions like Islam can be. It's ridiculous to think it's racist to attack a religion. In fact, it's racist not to attack a religion. These are systems of power, huge political forces of the world—you have to speak back against it, otherwise you exist in an authoritarian system. Look at the way these societies have attacked and tortured intellectuals in the past, in places like Iran, Egypt and Libya. The West has continued to patronise them and refuse to attack them. A very robust exchange is extremely important.
Posted by Christelle Nadia Fotso at 11:52 AM in conflict, different perspective , Religion | Permalink | Comments (0)
The sugary excerpt of the day comes from the great Stephen Smith from his must-read article on Laurent Gbagbo:
'Gbagbo was born before shame,' ordinary people in Abidjan used to say. It didn't necessarily mean they disapproved of him. It was more a case of stating the obvious. The way he looked at it, history was the victors' account of a merciless fight. 'It's difficult for us to make history,' he once explained to me. 'We have to carry out our own French Revolution with Amnesty International peering over our shoulder.' Murder, intrigue, corruption, bare-faced lies, betrayal, ethnic cleansing: all means would be justifiable provided the end was attained. In Gbagbo's home region, where Ivory Coast's main cash crops are grown, the sons of the soil, the Bété, turned against migrant workers from poor Sahel states and against fellow Ivorians from other parts of the country.
It is alarming, to say the least, that so many political leaders are worried about making history rather than governing and improving the lives of their 'people.' Obsession with history is one of the reasons why there have been so many Mugabe, Gbagbo, Amin, Doe, Taylor, Gaddafi on the African continent for after all if one's only concern is history, the people become means to achieve greatness not much else, politics is religionized and political violence becomes acceptal and even normal.
Posted by Christelle Nadia Fotso at 06:08 PM in Africa, conflict, Current Affairs, international politics, Religion, trends, violence | Permalink | Comments (0)
Another proof from R.W. Johnson that faith in politics is about the bling and should remain in the private sphere:
The news that Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace were among the million people (including 22 'world leaders') who thronged St Peter's Square for the beatification of the late Pope John Paul II lends a piquant note to what was already a gothic occasion. Their presence was not, in itself, surprising: Mugabe tends to remember he is a Catholic whenever it is convenient – as in the case of his marriage to Grace, celebrated in a Catholic high mass in Harare, although they had by then already had two children. More recently, however, the main point has been to evade the EU's targeted sanctions and thus provide Grace (widely known as 'Dis-Grace') with opportunities for her extravagant shopping trips. The Mugabes were in Rome in 2005 for John Paul II's funeral, and again in 2008 and 2009 for UN food conferences – they get a free pass from the Vatican and from the UN, of which Zimbabwe is still a member.
Posted by Christelle Nadia Fotso at 08:38 AM in Africa, contradictions and betrayals, international politics, Religion | Permalink | Comments (0)
Sugary excerpt of the day or rather of the night from Juan Cole:
Note to Muslim-hater Bill Maher, who should know better: It is not true that women cannot vote in 20 Muslim countries, and please stop generalizing about 1.5 billion Muslims based on the 22 million people in Wahhabi Saudi Arabia, the only place where women cannot drive and where men can vote (in municipal elections) but women cannot. It would be like generalizing from the Amish in Pennsylvania to all people of Christian heritage and wondering what is with Christianity and its fascination with horses and buggies.
I have to admit that I have stopped watching Bill Maher years ago because I couldn't take him seriously. He is exactly like the people he criticized, arrogant and fanatically persuaded to be on the right side except that his views are seen more fashionable and more 'cultured' (some forms of inculture in America and elsewhere are tolerable/fashionable than others when they lead to more palatable conclusions).
Bill Maher doesn't care about the status of women in the "Muslin world," to use an expression that I hate. He is using it to make a cheap point to win an argument that isn't about women, but about a group of people he considers as savages. My own point here isn't that there is no there there, but to make the assertion that consistency matters when being self-righteous.
I will not foolishly assert that women in America are not privileged compared to others or that foreign countries especially those in certain parts of the world have a 'woman problem.' I will just argue that saying that isn't saying much for the question remains what is the ideal, what are absolute and universal values, and to stop using women as human shield, as props to win ideological wars.
Posted by Christelle Nadia Fotso at 02:31 AM in bigotry, contradictions and betrayals, ethics, fundamentalism, gender, identity politics, Middle East, Religion | Permalink | Comments (0)
Interesting stuff from Charlemagne:
The West is guilty of two errors, in my view.
Firstly, in the contest between the police state and the mosque, it too easily fell into the trap of backing the police state. It therefore became associated with oppression and hypocrisy in the minds of many Arabs. It never sought to help foster other democratic opposition forces, or to criticise rulers for their oppressive ways. President Barack Obama's brilliant speech in Cairo in 2009 criticised the Bush-era's (short-lived) notion that democracy could be brought at the point of a gun, but did not shy away from making a powerful case for freedom. The trouble is, Mr Obama's America then did little to support the cause of democracy in the Arab world. The same was true of Europe.
Any promotion of democracy in the Arab world cannot avoid the encounter with some form of Islamism. And this is Europe's second error: its failure to distinguish between different currents of political groups inspired by Islam. Not all groups bearing the name of "Islamic" are puppets of Iran's mullahs, or comrades of Osama bin Laden. Hamas may be the violent Palestinian offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, founded in Egypt. But the Egyptian branch declares itself to be non-violent and democratic, and is hated by al-Qaeda. At the very least, its democratic credentials should have been tested through greater dialogue.
I disagree with Charlemagne's implied affirmation that there is such a thing as the Western world. Nevertheless, he isn't wrong. The trouble is that he doesn't assert explicitly that the problem comes precisely from the too-easily made assertion that some foreigners are different, not mature, brutal, have an exotic or homogeneous or simply an essentialist culture, which makes it impossible for them to have self-determination and other good things in life. In short, the issue is always going to come to Sameness, commonness, that is to how much Charlemagne's West believes that the people from the rest of the world have in common with them.
Posted by Christelle Nadia Fotso at 11:26 AM in different perspective , identity politics, international politics, Religion, violence, west | Permalink | Comments (0)
Sugary excerpt of the day from Anjad Khan:
Essentially, Islamists have been successful in the UK where they have failed elsewhere. They have duped the establishment into thinking that they represent Muslims and Islam, all the while using that as a guise to promote divisive and potentially explosive identity politics. Their job has, of course, been made easier by soft deluded "liberal" multiculturalists who are in fact guilty of the racism of lower expectation and who don't apply universal norms to the 'exotic' others who we can't expect to behave like us.
Posted by Christelle Nadia Fotso at 11:56 AM in bigotry, identity politics, international politics, multiculturalism, racism, Religion, United Kingdom | Permalink | Comments (0)
Sugary excerpt from Christopher Hitchens in his debate against Blair on Religion
Religion forces nice people to do unkind things, and also makes intelligent people say stupid things. Handed a small baby for the first time, is it your first reaction to think, beautiful, almost perfect, now please hand me the sharp stone for its genitalia that I may do the work of the Lord. No, it is -- as the great physicist Stephen Weinberg has aptly put it, in the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but if you want to make good people do wicked things, you'll need religion.
Posted by Christelle Nadia Fotso at 03:49 PM in fundamentalism, quote, Religion | Permalink | Comments (0)
Over at the OUPblog, Elvin Lim has the best article(and the last one I will quote) on the whole NPR and Juan Williams episode. Sugary excerpt:
But NPR, in firing Williams, wasted an opportunity to make such a pedagogical statement. It wrapped up its reasons in faux reasons of journalistic standards and objectivity, and ironically, ended up implicitly endorsing the legitimacy of Williams' first, emotional, reaction. Indeed, I suspect that Juan Williams was fired because his bosses at NPR were, in turn, uncomfortable that he had articulated his own discomfort. And that is the problem. One reflex knee jerk begot another, but no reasonable explanation followed.
One thing we do know is that emotions cannot be bottled up. We either feel them or we don't, and Juan Williams apparently feels them when he sees someone dressed up in Muslim garb. What NPR did, in firing him, was send the emotional message that his emotions were illegitimate. But – and here was their mistake – NPR said nothing about either the legitimacy or illegitimacy of the reasons which provoked Williams' particular emotional reaction.
Emotions indicate the salience and intensity of issues, and they should be addressed even – and, in fact, especially – when they are based on bad reasons. NPR pushed a discussion of the legitimacy of these emotions under the carpet by firing Juan Williams under the faux reasons of journalistic objectivity and this is why in one fell swoop they lost both a journalist and a teaching moment. If NPR wanted to be politically correct, it might as well have gone all the way.
What has been alarming about the whole episode is the realization that America is under a strong emotional dictatorship, one where feelings ,especially when at their center is outrage or pain giving one the perception that s/he is victimized, are seldom questioned as the basis for political and other important decisions. I still remember George W. Bush responding to Al Gore's legitimate criticisms of his record as Texas's governor by saying that he was hurt that his heart was being questioned. Just take the one of Obama telling Democrats to either get over their disappointment or not to feel discouraged because it is only the first quarter of the game. In short, emotions are the center of every debate because they make it so difficult to think or rather so easy to shoot from the hip and to indulge on junk without even considering the need to exercise or to eat healthy.
Posted by Christelle Nadia Fotso at 12:51 PM in bigotry, conflict, Media, Religion | Permalink | Comments (0)
I agree with Brendan O'Neill on this:
(...)The great irony of the French government's restrictions on the burqa in public places, and to a certain extent the Belgian government's restrictions, is that they have been presented as being in the tradition of the Enlightenment. This is about liberating women from oppression, they say, and therefore it is a good, Enlightened, Voltairish thing to do.
In fact, banning a religious garment is counter to the spirit of the Enlightenment. What these authoritarians forget is that the Enlightenment sprang from a defence of religious liberty. The Enlightenment has its origins, not in any attempt to censor certain minority religious symbols, but in a belief that minority religions, even ones we consider 'heretical', should be protected from state intervention, censorship and oppression.
So in calling for the state to restrict a certain form of religious expression, these pseudo-Enlightened censors are doing something that the original men of the Enlightenment would have considered pretty outrageous.
Posted by Christelle Nadia Fotso at 10:34 AM in burqa, conflict, culture, europe, France, fundamentalism, gender, Religion | Permalink | Comments (0)
Jay Rosen on the Juan Williams's firing from NPR:
Here is what I, Jay Rosen, New York Jew, liberal Democrat, and professional student of the press think... Given its existing codes NPR was in an untenable position from the moment Juan Williams started working for Fox, where his job is to be a liberal foil for the conservative alternative in news. There was no way he could abide by NPR's rules–which insist on viewlessness as a guarantor of trust–and appear on Fox, where the clash of views is basic to what the network does to generate audience, and where Williams relished the give and take with outsized personalities like Bill O'Reilly.
NPR recognized the problem but tried to finesse it by re-classifying Williams as an "analyst." Big mistake. The job of analyst, as NPR defines it, is so tightly constrained that it excludes almost everything Williams was doing for Fox. So why didn't NPR simply get rid of Williams years ago when he began to generate view-from-somewhere controversies with his appearances on Fox? The likely reason was identified by Farai Chideya, who used to work at NPR: a diversity problem. NPR had almost no black men on the air.
Jay Rosen is right, but I'm also convinced that the focus on the 'whys' of the Juan Williams episode is convenient because it puts the essential question on the back-burner and that question is what does it mean to be a journalist in America. There are a lot of bad and discomforting answers to that question, but no sustainable attempts to provide thoughtful answers.
Posted by Christelle Nadia Fotso at 07:12 PM in bigotry, Media, news, Obama's America, politics, Religion | Permalink | Comments (0)
Quote of the day from Glenn Greenwald about the firing of Juan Williams from NPR for expressing his fears over 'Muslims' 'who look Muslims' in certain situations:
The principal reason the Williams firing resonated so much and provoked so much fury is that it threatens the preservation of one of the most important American mythologies: that Muslims are a Serious Threat to America and Americans.
I have to say that the whole thing makes me more than uncomfortable. America has entered an age where free speech is about content precisely because it is no longer possible for Americans to have a dialogue about issues. The goal of political or social discussions is to shut up the opposition and to make the argument that it is either simply or solely bigoted or dumb. Where there is a prevalent notion in a society that people have to be careful about what they say, it is in general because there also exists the prevalent and uncomfortable one that people can't change, that people are their vilest thought, and that education and dialogue don't matter.
Posted by Christelle Nadia Fotso at 07:09 PM in bigotry, different perspective , free speech, Obama's America, Religion, trends | Permalink | Comments (0)
Fascinating stuff from the Economist's Democracy in America's blog:
In 1942, before Americans came to see the Soviets as their mortal enemy, the ideas of "Strong, immediate limitations on national sovereignty" and "International control of all armies and navies" could seem an enlightened path to the abolition of war. But by the war's end, it quickly became apparent that this sort of thing would amount to an impracticable power-sharing agreement with communist regimes. And as Americans became more and more likely to believe that only a more thoroughly Christian nation could save the world from godless communist tyranny, the principled, cosmopolitan globalism of the Federal Council of Churches swiftly came to seem a dangerous absurdity and practically communist itself. Anyway, that's what I think happened to the Federal Council of Churches' 1942 platform. Of course, it's now been a good while since we were haunted by the spectre of communism. Yet America's oddly religion-soaked politics remains in many ways the creature of its mid-century anti-communist reaction. Isn't it a bit depressing to think that American national political and religious life has yet to recover from the red scare?
I'm wondering whether we aren't in a similar period in American history where the Islamist scare this time is increasing the religionization of American politics with potentially more dire consequences.
Posted by Christelle Nadia Fotso at 06:53 PM in America, conflict, Obama's America, Religion | Permalink | Comments (0)
I don't agree totally agree with Mehdi Hasan on this, but the fact that I can't say he is just wrong, shows that he has a point:
On Thursday the US president said Pastor Jones's plans to burn the Qur'an would be a "recruiting bonanza" for al-Qaida. Yet he fails to recognise how the west's war in Afghanistan provides a similar boost to extremists – on both sides. The "enemy" in Afghanistan, concluded the IISS report released on Tuesday, is "incentivised by the presence of foreign forces". And inside the US the likes of Jones and rightwing Republican bigots, frothing at the mouth over the "Ground Zero mosque" take their cue from aggressive leaders like Blair, Bush and Obama – who send more and more troops to fight and die abroad, in faraway Muslim countries, while denying any link between Islamic militancy and western foreign policies.
Posted by Christelle Nadia Fotso at 01:08 PM in Afghanistan, America, bigotry, Obama, Obama's America, Religion, violence | Permalink | Comments (0)
Brilliant stuff from Ilya Somin on the "Ground Zero" mosque:
I lost half a dozen relatives in the Holocaust. But I don't see any inherent problem with having a German cultural center near the site of a former Nazi death camp. So long as the center does not interfere with the operations of the memorial established at the camp, does not promote anti-Semitism, and doesn't advocate the sort of virulent nationalism that helped cause the Holocaust, it should be unobjectionable. As Krauthammer notes, Germans as a group are not to blame for the Holocaust. And German culture is not reducible to Nazism and anti-Semitism. A center promoting elements of German culture that are not implicated in those phenomena does not somehow offend against the memory of Holocaust victims. A German cultural center that actually condemns Nazism and extreme nationalism while celebrating positive elements of German culture could actually make a useful contribution to reducing prejudice and honoring the victims.
I recognize, of course, that some Jews might still be offended, and avoiding such offense might be a pragmatic justification for not building the center. But the issue is whether the offense-taking would be justified. No one has a moral obligation to change their plans merely because others take unjustified offense.
The same points apply to the proposed Islamic Cultural Center near Ground Zero. Islam is not reducible to terrorism and oppression. A Muslim center near Ground Zero that promotes positive aspects of the Muslim tradition is unobjectionable. One that also denounces terrorism and radical Islamism would be a positive good.
It is difficult to say, but this controversy is just another proof that in America, it is increasingly becoming difficult to have serious conversations because too many are persuaded to have either "god" or "the truth" on their side and those who oppose them are just stupid or simply evil. The alarming thing is that the POTUS, the decider chose to avoid the debate even though he has always described himself as a man who isn't afraid of doing the right thing even if it means losing. Bush used to talk about the soft bigotry of low expectations, in Obama's case, I think we should talk about the flashy arrogance of great expectations.
Posted by Christelle Nadia Fotso at 04:40 AM in America, bigotry, Obama's America, Religion | Permalink | Comments (0)
I'm probably late to the game, but I was impressed by Obama's speech on Friday on the controversy over the construction of a Mosque near Ground Zero. I heard about it in the Cab that was taking me from JFK to Manhattan for I spent Friday in two airports and in a plane. My first thought was to say "at last, the Potus does something impressive that isn't solely self-serving." I thought the speech was on point and unlike the other flashy speeches Obama gives, I believed that it had meaning.
So was I disappointed by the fact that Obama "retreated" from his comment the next day? No and I wasn't even surprised. I expected him to do it for two reasons. The first is that Obama is a great politician and that as all great politicians of our era, he knows that it is difficult to educate the electorate or to lead on a issue when the real issues are fear and resentment. Obama said what was in his heart on Friday, but then had to clarify it because he did the math and realized that once again, being himself, saying what he meant wasn't going to be good for him politically in the short term.
The second reason why I expected Obama to kill the greatness of his Friday's speech with clarifications is that he isn't an ideologue in the good sense of the word. There are few things Obama is willing to die, politically, for, I would write that there is nothing, but I have decided to be nice because I'm still infected by the Parisian atmosphere.
Obama knows that he has to get reelected for his presidency to become meaningful and to be something more than a symbol of what America wanted to be when it elected him without of course having to work for it. I always thought to Obama was an attempt by a symbolically out of shape America to put itself back in shape by having surgery instead of course of exercising and deciding to have better eating habits.
I have never thought that Obama was too good for America, to the contrary, I have always thought that America didn't have enough faith in itself, in its ability to repair the wounds of its early and recent history (Bush's eight years) for it to choose Obama blindly knowing full well the odds of a rookie quarterback doing well without years of training are slim. But again, America loves believing in the improbable and it is also one of the reasons why it is a country to I love passionately.
Posted by Christelle Nadia Fotso at 04:49 PM in America, bigotry, different perspective , Obama, Obama's America, Religion | Permalink | Comments (0)
The sugary excerpt for this Sunday is from Roger Ebert's excellent entry in his journal about Christopher Hitchens, life,religion and what happens when even though you couldn't wait for death, she stops for you, even though she doesn't do it kindly as she did for Emily Dickinson:
Deathbed conversions have always seemed to me like a Hail Mary Pass, proving nothing about religion and much about desperation.
Posted by Christelle Nadia Fotso at 09:32 AM in Atheism, quote, Religion | Permalink | Comments (0)
Gideon Rachman who was in South Africa for the World Cup on how pathetic it is to seen grown men cry over a game:
I am sick of seeing grown men cry. Asamoah Gyan of Ghana was in floods, after missing that crucial penalty against Uruguay. Last night, it was Cardozo of Paraguay who missed a vital spot-kick and then left the field, blubbing. Really chaps - it's only a game.
My take on the whole thing is that football has stopped being a game long ago to become the last 'hope' or rather the new opiate of the masses especially in countries where politics seem to lead to a dead end and economics is about everything but merit and effort.
Posted by Christelle Nadia Fotso at 12:57 PM in Religion, Sports | Permalink | Comments (0)
Sugary excerpt from a Guardian article on Christopher Hitchens:
To say that Hitchens is stirred – even obsessed – by the question of courage would be to state the obvious. It seems therefore highly likely that his longing for the great Orwellian test – the momentous moral challenge to match the 1930s – might tempt him to overstate the threat of Islamic fundamentalism. "Do I ask myself," he replies, "do I think our civilisation is superior to theirs? Yes, I do. Do I think it's worth fighting for? Most certainly."
That wasn't really the question.
"Well, I know how to correct atavism in myself, yes, I do," he retorts. As evidence, he offers the fact that after 9/11 he voted against his Washington apartment block flying the American flag. "So I was pleased to find out I wasn't in the mob majority in that way." But then he adds, bizarrely, "The other thing is, what happens when this ebbs, and the flag gets tatty? And you start seeing cabs with flags worn to rags, making the flag look crappy."
I 'm convinced that Christopher Hitchens is going to end up becoming one of the type of people that he hates the most, that is a man who is so religious about everything that he likes that he stops thinking to descent to believe in his own grandeur just as any evangelical preacher who is convinced that he is a prophet who is always right.
Posted by Christelle Nadia Fotso at 02:47 PM in contradictions and betrayals, fundamentalism, Religion | Permalink | Comments (0)
The statement of the day is from Juan Cole about the draw Muhammad Day:
I think when you know people have died in violence over some piece of thoughtlessness, it is the height of irresponsibility to repeat it for no good reason.
I agree with Cole's sentiment, but disagrees with his conclusion. It's always better to live i a society where thoughtlessness, even when it is bigoted and can produce violence, can be expressed because it reminds us that the civility and the education necessary to maintain a liberal and open society are never a given
Posted by Christelle Nadia Fotso at 01:26 PM in free speech, fundamentalism, Religion | Permalink | Comments (0)
Once in a while Nick Kristof gets things right:
In rural parts of Congo Republic, the other Congo to the north, we found that even when people had heard of contraception, they often regarded it as unaffordable.
Most appalling, all the clinics and hospitals we visited in Congo Republic said that they would sell contraceptives only to women who brought their husbands in with them to prove that the husband accepted birth control.
Condoms are somewhat easier to obtain, but many men resist them. More broadly, many men seem to feel that more children are a proud sign of more virility.
So the pill, 50 years old this month in the United States, has yet to reach parts of Africa. And condoms and other forms of birth control and AIDS prevention are still far too difficult to obtain in some areas.
One of the most appalling facts about the limited use of contraception isn't used in Congo and other African countries is the role that American evangelism plays in strengthening old beliefs that women are breeders and not contraception isn't just bad, but evil. The point isn't here that the problem has been imported or is being created by American evangelists, thus making the issue one of identity or one of eternal victimization but rather that that imported fanaticism is making an already catastrophic situation worst by convincing well intentioned, but limited people that ignorance, poverty, and anti-intellectualism are not just bliss, but also close to Godliness.
Posted by Christelle Nadia Fotso at 08:48 AM in Africa, conflict, fundamentalism, gender, Religion | Permalink | Comments (0)
Oliver Roy on the similarities between Salafism and American Protestant Fundamentalism :
It is a mistake to think that the phenomena of religious radicalism (Salafism) and political radicalism (Al Qaeda) are mere imports of the cultures and conflicts of the Middle East. It is above all a consequence of the globalization and Westernization of Islam. Today's religious revival is first and foremost marked by the uncoupling of culture and religion, whatever the religion may be. This explains the affinities between American Protestant fundamentalism and Islamic Salafism: both reject culture, philosophy, and even theology in favour of a scriptural reading of the sacred texts and an immediate understanding of truth through individual faith, to the detriment of educational and religious institutions.
Roy's comparison is appropriate in my view because it emphasizes the fact that globalization has a lot to do with the rise of religious extremism. It is striking to realize that the less people feel in control, the more they are likely to turn to a vengeful God requiring them to be pure and to purify their world to make it more to their liking.
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The Globe and Mail
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Canadian journalist Adam Radwanski traveled to revitalized Rust Belt cities in the United States, and found Pittsburgh to be the gold standard of urban renewal in America's industrial heartland.
In The Globe and Mail, Radwanski writes of Pittsburgh: "Scarcely anybody there denies that its economic reinvention in advanced manufacturing, life-sciences and information technology – which have seen a host of start-up successes – has something to do with becoming a place young professionals want to be."
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Local architects win national AIA award for Haiti design project
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Pittsburgh architecture firm Rothschild Doyno Collaborative recently received the 2015 AIA National Architecture Honor Award for designing the Center of Hope project in Haiti with World Vision.
The American Institute of Architects hasn't bestowed a national AIA honor award for architecture to a Pittsburgh office since 1999.
"It is a rare honor for our local art and design community," says Mike Gwin, a principal at Rothschild Doyno Collaborative.
Read the full list of AIA's award recipients
'The coolest American city you haven't been to'
Huffington Post
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
The Huffington Post is whetting the appetite of Pittsburgh-bound tourists lately, calling it "the coolest American city you haven't been to."
Journalist Andrea Poe examines Pittsburgh in all of its quirky glory, from Randyland and the Duquesne Incline to The Mattress Factory and the Bayernhof Museum.
"Downtown Pittsburgh is infused with an authentic, indie-spirited vibrancy you don't see much in cities anymore," Poe writes.
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Katie Couric interviews Police Chief McLay
Yahoo Global News
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Pittsburgh Police Chief Cameron McLay was recently interviewed by Katie Couric for Yahoo Global News about the fallout for his recent controversial #EndWhiteSilence photograph that went viral.
In the Yahoo interview, McLay states that in hindsight he would still choose to hold the sign for the photo.
When asked about the sign he was photographed holding and the ensuing fallout, he responded, "I consider it a blessing and an opportunity … the issues of race and policing and the relationship between police and our communities of color is an issue on the national forefront."
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Pittsburgh ranks No. 2 for city pride in real estate blog
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
When it comes to city pride, Pittsburgh residents rank No. 2 nationally, according to real estate blog Movoto.
The blog recently published a list of the top 10 U.S. cities with a healthy dose of self-regard, and Pittsburgh finished at a strong second, right after Tulsa, Okla.
"Pittsburgh is home to a lot of firsts: first polio vaccine, first Ferris wheel, first commercial radio station, first public television station, first Ice Capades show, and first Big Mac," writes Movoto content creator Andy Eddy.
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Pittsburgh ranked No. 1 for Sports Facilities & Outdoor Recreation in U.S.
Wednesday, January 07, 2015
Wallethub.com recently released their rankings of 2014's best and worst cities for an active lifestyle. The rankings were based on two basic criteria: Sports Facilities & Outdoor Recreation and Budget & Participation.
While Pittsburgh came in No. 1 for Sports Facilities & Outdoor Recreation, we're lagging behind on Budget & Participation, with a ranking of No. 26 in that category. But Pittsburgh also made it into the top five of secondary criteria, including highest number of swimming pools per capita and lowest average cost of playing golf.
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Penn Ave. bike lane among top 10 nationally
Wednesday, January 07, 2015
National bicycling group PeopleForBikes named America's top 10 new bike lanes of the year and included Pittsburgh's Penn Avenue bike lane in the mix.
Green Lane Project staff writer Michael Anderson details protected bike lanes in cities including San Francisco, Portland, and Memphis before describing the rapid execution of Pittsburgh's on-street biking network.
"Pittsburgh has always been a city of action, and that's its style with bike lanes too," writes Anderson.
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Thriving startup scene detailed in The Atlantic
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Wednesday, January 07, 2015
If you're the mastermind behind a brilliant tech startup, Silicon Valley's not the only place to set up shop. Pittsburgh offers a viable alternative and a model for tech magnetism, offers The Atlantic magazine.
In his article "How to Create a Tech Startup if You're Not in Silicon Valley," The Atlantic's John Tierney explains that Pittsburgh's startups share oxygen with internationally known tech companies like Google and Disney Research that have a sizable presence here.
"Pittsburgh has one of the liveliest tech ecosystems in the country," Tierney writes. "It's a tech mecca, along with places like Silicon Valley, Boston/Cambridge, Seattle, and Austin."
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Conde Nast Traveler points tourists to Pittsburgh
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Wednesday, January 07, 2015
Conde Nast Traveler has added Pittsburgh to its list of top 15 must-see spots for 2015.
In its annual tour guide, "Top 15 Places to Go in 2015," Conde Nast Traveler includes Pittsburgh with global destinations in Costa Rica, Colombia, Mexico and Rwanda, to name a few.
"The furnaces are long gone, but this city's on fire," writes Brent Burket, sharing his love of Pittsburgh's art and restaurant scenes.
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Forbes names Pittsburgh second smartest city in U.S.
Forbes Magazine
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Pittsburgh earned salutatorian placement on Forbes magazine's list of the smartest cities in the United States.
Coming in second after the Boston-Cambridge-Newton area, Pittsburgh logged the largest percentage point increase since 2000 in the proportion of its population that is college-educated. The Steel City climbed 8.8 points to 32.2 percent, on the strength of 37.3% growth in raw numbers.
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Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is key to city's recent renaissance, says The Atlantic
The Atlantic
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
In the latest installment of its
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In the article "How the arts drove Pittsburgh's revitalization," reporter John Tierney explains that Pittsburgh's turnaround efforts are widely regarded for its sensible, clearheaded approach based on preservation.
Tierney writes:
"In looking at Pittsburgh's impressive revival, it's important to take note of the key role played over the last 30 years by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, an organization that has managed one of the city's most vivid transformations, turning a large part of downtown that had been overtaken by porn shops, strip clubs, massage parlors and sleazy bars into a lively, safe and attractive district for cultural arts and entertainment."
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Huffington Post praises restoration of Mellon Square
Huffington Post
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
The restoration of Mellon Square recently landed at the top of Huffington Post's national list of notable landscape architecture developments of 2014.
The Cultural Landscape Foundation President Charles Birnbaum writes "modernism got a big boost" due to the efforts of the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy and the City of Pittsburgh to bring the iconic Downtown park back to its original splendor.
The first park built over a parking garage, Mellon Park was conceived as an oasis, a gathering space amid dense corporate buildings, Birnbaum explains.
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Duquesne makes President's Community Service Honor Roll
Duquesne University
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Duquesne University recently received the nation's highest federal recognition for universities that strengthen communities in two areas: General Community Service and Education. Thanks to the 280,000 hours of community service amassed by Duquesne Students during the 2012-13 school year, the college made The President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll.
Duquesne was the only Pittsburgh institution honored for General Community Service with Distinction, the second-highest recognition presented by the federal Corporation for National and Community Service. This marks the fifth consecutive year that Duquesne has achieved the prestigious ranking for efforts to improve the lives of community residents, particularly low-income individuals.
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BBC Popup team divulges stories from the Steel City
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
During a month-long stay on Pittsburgh's shores in November, the BBC Popup team asked residents what it means to hail from the Three Rivers.
In the video "Life in Pittsburgh: Secrets from the Steel City," a colorful parking attendant in the Strip District explains the essence of the city over a montage of Primanti's sandwiches and Penn Avenue street vendors.
"It's the people," he says. "The people make Pittsburgh, and Pittsburgh welcomes people from all over the world."
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Zipping through grit to find a renaissance of reuse
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Zipcar's online magazine zips through several Pittsburgh landmarks and discovers a story of grit-turned-grandeur.
In the article "How Gritty, Industrial Pittsburgh is Leading a Renaissance of Reuse," Ziptopia writer Jeffrey Tanenhaus explains the evolution of local fixtures including the Grand Concourse Restaurant, Church Brew Works and The Andy Warhol Museum.
"Factories and warehouses still populate the riverbanks, but urban renewal – fueled by artistic initiatives and gastronomic growth starting in the 1970s – is turning Pittsburgh into a laid-back post-industrial playground," Tanenhaus writes.
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I found this camera on sale at Office Max and I had to take it home and try it out. http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQueri...&pq-path=12417 The Spec sheet said that it weighed 4.1ounces so I knew that my stock Super Cub (with 3 cell lipo and 10x6DD prop) would be able to lift it just fine. After installing the included li-ion battery and 2 GB memory card I weighed it with a digital scale and it came out to be a little over 5 ounces. Not bad. So I strapped it on the Super Cub with rubber bands and gave it a try. WOW! You will see what I mean when you watch the video below. The only thing that I need to do is rig up a servo so I can use it to take pictures. The quality is great for the price. You can't beat a 10 megapixel cam that shoots HD video for $159. I honestly haven't seen any videos that match this quality EVER. I included some quick and rather sloppy pics of how I mount it, but you will get the idea. I was pressed for time. There are 2 main rubber bands holding the cam against the fuselage. The other rubber bands that you see are holding the velcro onto the back of the camera. This way I don't have to stick the velcro to the camera screen. The rubber bands are good enough but the velcro is for cheap insurance
By the way, This Super Cub is flown with all of the stock electronics with exception to the lipo and prop. Did you notice in the video how smooth it flew even with the extra weight? The entire flight was at half throttle or less except for the take off. I have been asked how I compensate for the weight gain on the left side of the plane when the camera is attached Here is my secret... I do absolutely nothing to compensate for the weight gain. The only thing that I noticed is that it takes 3 clicks to the right on rudder for level flight at full throttle. At half throttle, it takes 2 clicks to the right from center for level flight. That is it!!! This plane weighs in at 896 grams which is 31.6ounces and it flies great on the stock motor/gearbox with 3 cell, 1800 lipo and 10x6DD prop. Here is the spec page http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQueri...q-locale=en_US
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Sometimes we have mental epiphanies that come like a dousing of cold water. One such mind-boggling realization came to me in an unexpected way—petting my little six-pound rescue cat.
I am not—or was not—a cat person. I didn't like cats. Give me a dog any day over the feline of God's critters. That is, I wasn't ... until a certain scrawny, black, stray cat appeared one afternoon and insisted on joining my dog and me on our daily walk. This happened every day for two weeks. Not only did this meowing little creature follow us as we made our three-quarters-of-a-mile walk, she also made repeated attempts to leap into my arms or crawl onto my lap and snuggle when I sat on the porch.
After another week of emotional nagging, a stray cat with beautiful green eyes adopted me. I now have a rescue dog and a rescue kitty. The latter lavishes more unadulterated love on me than I've ever experienced before. The epiphany? If a dumb creature—an insignificant stray cat, of which the world seems to have too many—can love that simply, purely, and whole-heartedly, how much more can a human being love?
Human beings, made in the image and likeness of God, should be able to change the course of mighty rivers with their love. If a tiny scrap-of-a-kitten is capable of so much tenderness and adulation, how much more sensitivity and awe can a human being produce?
My little cat has taught me more about the power and awesomeness of love than anything I've read or seen in all my years on this earth. Verses like, Now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love, seem crystal-clear now. Love is overwhelming, remarkable, breathtaking, incredible, and extraordinary. Love is one big WOW.
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Yesterday was beautiful here in the Twin Cities near perfect temps, few clouds; not a lot of wind. So, I went flying 4 or 5 flights on the Cub and another 3 or 4 on the Groovy:
Could barely feel the wind -- mostly out of the NW 6 or less; occasionally swinging to the SW. Decided after flying to go to the pond, if for nothing more than a dry run. Leaves were just dancing in the tree, branches barely moving wind was just visible on the water, no waves cats paw at best. Maybe 3mph mostly from the west; but a little shifty affected by the surroundings of the pond (City Park/pond w/boat club -- http://www.emyc.org/ ). Stood by the tree on the pier. Phantom did well even ran wing & wing! Jib needs a little more curve too flat from the factory; and might need to trim it out just a tad too. Out haul came undone so speed dropped of part way through the mission. Tacked nicely didnt get hung in irons; jibes were nice too. A masthead apparent wind indicator might be a nice addition? No pics or vid was all alone. |
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I have a Thunder Tiger ETNZ, the Hull looks identical to the Phantom. The fin, rudder, mast/booms, seem to be the same. The steel ballast weighs 1.8Kg. The Phantom main sail is smaller, this will help with the viscious windward helm that the ETNZ suffers from.
I moved the mast 30mm forward and took 25mm off the roach of the main to control it . I have rigged mine with a closed loop system under the deck for the sheeting, replaced all the stock rigging with 80lb Spectra. Uses a Hitec 785 winch, 2.5 turns for full out sheets. I had to fit seals to the top and bottom of the rudder shaft to control a small leak. See posts 297 and 321 in this thread for more details and pix's http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=697723 |
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It seemed that Haruko had grown tired and Crow and Dan's bickering over how to deal with the God of Gambling, the Battle seamstress suggested her own method to deal with rescuing Gen and handling Aoki. The Rail-gun sighed a little as he realized that his plan was a bit brutal and unlike him. For a brief moment he had flashes of himself during his Red Storm of War mode and quickly realize that he was more affected by that than he realized. After Aoki revealed where the lab and scientist were holding Gen and how they would have to get there Crow sighed a little. "Okay it seems that we have to go with Haruko way for now. Besides I grown tired of all of us fighting each other. Every minute we waste here is another minute Gen loses."
Crow turned to Dan the two seemed to be butting heads the most recently (mainly because of Crow's drastic shift in personality) and offered a hand apologetically. The Gunslinger mentally sized the martial artist of Death. From what the bounty hunter had seen Dan was an impressive fighter he was strong and powerful capable of throwing that around to his advantage however…Crow was fast and nimble. Dan may try to overpower him but Crow could just as easily wear him down with speed and rapid attacks. But that fight was for another day. "What do you say Dan? Do you want to put our disagreements aside for now and go kick some cyborg ass?"
Alvin soon revealed that the Russian Swordswomen, Raisa, was leaving the battle and taking her ally from Inazuma with her. The Gunslinger made a mental note to send something to the girl and remember her, while she still had a long way to go Crow could tell Raisa would be a fearsome swordswoman one day. "Okay then that leave us with Haruko, Sid, Dan, Alvin, Rin, Yuriko, and myself. I know this hasn't been easy but now we have a destination in mine. Gen's life is dependent on us, I swore on my word as a Gunslinger I would rescue him." As Crow looked around at those who were fighting with him tonight he smirked while he clenched his fist. "I don't know about the rest of you but…I never go back on my word!" With a recharged determination Crow took a step however he suddenly felt an intense pain hit him like an electrical discharge.
With the adrenaline from the fight against Uta wearing off Crow instantaneously started to feel the ramifications of giving into the Red Storm of War even for that short amount of time. Crow's body felt physically exhausted, he was sore all over and felt like he was about to collapse. There was a strong ringing in his ears making it difficult to hear as well as his vision was blurry. However as drastic as these ramifications were they lasted only a few seconds, the Gunslinger panted a bit unsure if he could let alone should continue. Using all his will power Crow took another step forward preventing himself from passing out. Despite the seriousness of the situation the Rail-gun brushed it off for now to not let his allies in on his current condition and proceeded forward to the University. Whether Crow himself, let alone the city of Osaka, still stood standing by the end of this did not matter to the Last Gunslinger the only thing that did was….saving Gen!


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Brand-new seats now! Popcorn and drinks a good price. You can get in and out with a date for a little over $20.
I can't help but comment on Mr. 5 Stars who's never coming back. Why the heck would you give 5 stars if you hated it so much? And what do video games have to do with your movie viewing pleasure? One last question...did it hurt when you got your balls stuck?
I got my balls stuck in one of there games there. Probably won't ever go back again.
In serious need of an update! Seats are uncomfortable and small. Sound quality is awful. Can hear the sound effects at the movie next to you. The prices are reasonable. The concessions are reasonable and good. But for the best movie experience in this area...I would recommend French Lick Springs Stadium. High back reclining seats, roomy, concessions are very reasonable and good too! Sound quality is excellent. Don't waste time with the theaters at Bedford! Way over priced!
Horrible theater. Seats are always broken and uncomfortable. Projectors are horrible. Sound quality is really horrible. Seating is awkward and needs to be updated because having someone sit in front of you shouldn't block your view of half the screen. Good for the stingy who look for price over quality, but I'd rather spent two more bucks and go to French Lick's theater and have a good movie experience.
I love this theater. I love family outings where we can actually bring money home...that is a rare find any more. The staff is A1 and the place is clean(at least we have never seen/had an issue). Parking is good. I don't have anything negative about this theater. We went to one that had moved...they jacked up their prices so much we won't be going back there, just Jasper 8.
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