Comments on: The War on Bad Metaphors

By: maha

maha — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 14:56:34 +0000

she is hereself the most extremist woman in the history of Jordan

If she’s extremist, then I would say the whole Middle East needs more extremist women.

By: Sally

Sally — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:29:03 +0000

I am shocked when I hear about rania talking about extremism and woman righs …and I feel sorry for king abdullah marrying her ….she is hereself the most extremist woman in the history of Jordan she once introduce herself as a jordanian and once as a palatinian …Palastinian exremism causing big problems in jordan and being a queen must she should respect the national identity of the country that she is illegally interfiering in is issues cause in our country the king is the head of the state ….in my country original Jordaians are suffering from the palastinian racism since her husband came to the authority ! we are used just to accomblish the aims of the regime thats all!

By: The Mahablog » Hate Speech and Its Consequences

The Mahablog » Hate Speech and Its Consequences — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 17:14:28 +0000

[...] As I explained in this post, at the CGI conference several speakers said we shouldn’t be talking about a war on terrorism, but about a war on extremism. And fighting extremism with military aggression is a bit like using heavy machinery to re-arrange a china shop. The china may indeed be re-arranged, but the end results may still be unsatisfactory. [...]

By: The Mahablog » NIEs, Nays, Neighs

The Mahablog » NIEs, Nays, Neighs — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:42:50 +0000

[...] At last week’s Clinton Global Initiative conference, speaker after speaker said that military actions like the U.S. invasion of Iraq are spreading extremism. Keep this in mind while reading this part of the NIE: _The jihadists’ greatest vulnerability is that their ultimate political solution — an ultraconservative interpretation of Shariah-based governance spanning the Muslim world — is unpopular with the vast majority of Muslims. Exposing the religious and political straitjacket that is implied by the jihadists’ propaganda would help to divide them from the audiences they seek to persuade. [...]

By: The Mahablog » Covering Their Behinds

The Mahablog » Covering Their Behinds — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 16:16:17 +0000

[...] And I say it’s the War on Extremism, not the War on Terror. Let’s get the name straight. [...]

By: Saturday open thread… « Marisacat

Saturday open thread… « Marisacat — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 17:18:39 +0000

[...] hmmm At first I thought I did not have much to add to this (colonising is quite insidious, shall we say)… but when I reached this snippet on Desmond Tutu and more importantly religion… The Archbishop Desmond Tutu radiates more sweet, selfless joy than his little body could possibly contain. No religion in the world promotes death and murder, he said. Instead, all of the world’s religions promote compassion, justice, love, caring. It is unfortunate that people misuse religion for bad purposes, like a knife intended to cut bread might be used to hurt someone. [...]

By: News onPhilanthropy

News onPhilanthropy — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 20:59:04 +0000

Clinton: Blogging the Bloggers

The Clinton Global Initiative has gone out of its way to accommodate bloggers, and many are here. This ma be due ot the influence of Salon’s Peter Dauo, who has been hired by the campaign of Senator Clinton to reach

By: Donna

Donna — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:59:37 +0000

September of 2006…..we are losing between 2 and 3 soldiers PER DAY in Iraq. Does anyone read about this in the MSM, as we are in the heat of mid-term electioneering? Nope, it is too important for the corporate media to do all they can to pretend ‘good news’ for Bush and his followers.

By: Donna

Donna — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:50:16 +0000

No wonder I come to this blog for the blessings of intelligence and sanity.

What kind of a situation is it when all the ‘regular news’ by the MSM is all about the ‘independent’ Republicans caving to Bush on allowing him to continue torturing [caving for political reasons] while the truly independent thinking of someone like Desmond Tutu is not even covered in the MSM?
Tutu’s words are so needed in the USA because we as a nation are being starved of sound moral leadership, and being manipulated by spin instead. Thank God for Maha who is attending this conference and can report to us about Tutu and Queen Rania.

Doug Hughes [#13 comment], your analogies about fighting fire are brilliant. Thanks also to r4d20 for ‘root vs parent’ causes, and to Steve from Canuckistan for reminding us that ‘war = $’ for white Republican friends of the corporateer-minded war-decider-cabal of the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld entity.

And, yes, Swami……they are indiscriminately killing innocents and trying to justify that by labeling all as terrorists….. I fully believe that this destroying of the innocent is also a classic sickly subconscious defense mechanism for those who hate innocence, having lost their own claim to innocence on their path to power.

The power mongerers are trying to beat the joy out of Americans, too…..and replace that joy with fear to make us all amenable to their Orwellian spin.

By: Allwar Isbad

Allwar Isbad — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 04:44:21 +0000

And the media is used to perpetuate fear and build antagonism towards their defined “enemies”. CSI kicked of the seasons NCIS with assassination of a Syrian by Iranian agents in Washington, but gripping the tale by a false framing of the Israeli Mossad in the process. The next day we have Jericho which is drama of what happens after a Nuclear attack on the US heartland. What more they have to mould public opinion is for us to wait and see …