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February 21, 2016
On Daily Word Counts
My rant on this topic kicks off the big JIHADI: A LOVE STORY blog tour over at reviewedthebook.co.uk. Check it out!
February 20, 2016
The root cause of Islamic extremism? Religious illiteracy.
This excellent article from Madiha Walker makes a powerful case. If we (by which I mean Muslims and non-Muslims of good will) are serious about addressing the extremism undertaken in the name of Islam, then it follows that we must support responsible, accurate religious instruction. We must advocate on behalf of Quranic values and rigorous inquiry -- and we must reject the dismal pseudo-scholarship and the cynical pedagogy of both ISIS brutes and Islamophobes.
A must-read article!
A must-read article!
February 18, 2016
The JIHADI: A LOVE STORY blog tour is ON!
Watch this space for updates on every one of these events, coordinated by the amazing +Orenda Books. (Click here for early reviews of the novel, which have been beyond my wildest dreams.)
DAY ONE: For reviewedthebook.co.uk, my spirited defense of Stephen King's principle that "inspiration is for amateurs." The rest of us commit to a daily word count. You can find this post here.
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DAY TWO: Steve Wright of livemanylives.wordpress.com had this to say about the book when he reviewed it last month:...
The JIHADI: A LOVE STORY blog tour starts February 21!
Can't wait! Watch this space for updates on every one of these events, coordinated by the amazing +Orenda Books . (Click here for early reviews of the novel, which have been beyond my wildest dreams.)
From the poster, it looks like nothing short of a rock and roll tour ... without the groupies, drugs, alcohol, or, you know, physical proximity. But intellectually -- yes, exactly like a rock and roll tour!
(Shouts into mike:) Are you all ready to have a good time?
From the poster, it looks like nothing short of a rock and roll tour ... without the groupies, drugs, alcohol, or, you know, physical proximity. But intellectually -- yes, exactly like a rock and roll tour!
(Shouts into mike:) Are you all ready to have a good time?
February 15, 2016
Literature is the key to coexistence
Coexistence is a global conversation, and literature is, I think, the only way it is going to happen in our lifetimes. Here is a conversational opening on which I worked for eight years.
Tea Party Racists Pretend to Love the Constitution, but ...
... refuse to act on the Senate's Constitutional responsibility to vote on Supreme Court nominees.
Catch up on reality, please. The people funding this movement pull its every string, and they hate American democracy and its institutions. They are manipulating and exploiting their simple followers for their own purposes.
Catch up on reality, please. The people funding this movement pull its every string, and they hate American democracy and its institutions. They are manipulating and exploiting their simple followers for their own purposes.
February 14, 2016
Watch this video. Then tell me the Trump campaign isn't about making America white again.
Brave, articulate African-American teen volunteered for Trump for a week. Then had this to say. Bravo James Patterson!
MUST WATCH MATERIAL for America as it ponders electing a xenophobic fascist to the highest office in the land.
No. I don't think Parliament should vote to bar Donald Trump from UK soil.
I think they should vote to let him into the United Kingdom.
And refuse to let him out again. Until he recovers. Sometime in January, 2017.
And refuse to let him out again. Until he recovers. Sometime in January, 2017.
February 12, 2016
Keb Mo rewrites and redefines FOLSOM PRISON BLUES
Listening to a lot of blues lately.
This superb reworking of a Johnny Cash classic rewrites the song to fit in with traditional blues "theology." No longer does the speaker boast of having shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die.
Very strong stuff.
This superb reworking of a Johnny Cash classic rewrites the song to fit in with traditional blues "theology." No longer does the speaker boast of having shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die.
Very strong stuff.
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