Posted 8/10/2002 09:15:55 AM
why is the USoA so flippantly spouting off words like "regime change?" does the dubya administration not get the significance of these words? no one likes sadam. not even his kids. that is not the point. the point is arrogance, ignorance and presumption... the USoA is no good at regime change. plain and simple. even if they did not have the track record that they do the posture that regime change requires is pedantic at best and downright totalitarian (on a global scale) at worst.

Posted 8/9/2002 11:08:03 PM
current mp3:
pet.shop.boys:love.comes.quickly

Posted 8/9/2002 11:07:06 PM
have you ever wondered what sting is reading?

Posted 8/9/2002 07:12:36 PM
Swapping 'Religion' for 'Postsecularism' (free reg required)

"Hey, I just had a postsecular experience!"

Posted 8/9/2002 04:45:42 PM
where is lenny????

Posted 8/8/2002 02:59:48 PM
The question mark too often is answered by the exclamation mark,
the critic by the pundit,
the dubious by the fanatic.
-K. Cragg, The Qur'an For Today, 65.

Posted 8/7/2002 03:35:51 PM

In response to the silly wranglings at the University of North Carolina...

::from the peshawar journals::

The Ecumenical Presupposition in the Qur'an

"To God belongs the East and the West.
Whichever way you turn there is the face of God."
2:115

"He is the Lord of the East and of the West: there is no god but Him."
73:10

"Had God not defended some men by the might of others, the monasteries and churches, the synagogues and mosques in which his praise is daily celebrated would have been utterly destroyed."
22:40

"God invites you to the Home of Peace.
He guides whom He will to a straight path."
10:25

(?.9.95)

Posted 8/7/2002 09:26:27 AM
news from the eu:

dollar and euro reach parity
alan greenspan to be knighted
chivalry: is it still relevant?

Posted 8/7/2002 09:10:47 AM

anyone interested in allowing
islam to define itself should
check out Islam For Today

Posted 8/7/2002 09:01:40 AM

this is the kind of stuff that makes the religious right in the USoA look so intellectually bankrupt...

US university sued over Koran class

This is part of a long history of anti-Islamic bias that is akin to anti-Semitism or even racism.
University professor Carl W Ernst

Islam reading assignment draws fire
University faces lawsuit for assigning book to freshmen

...a national TV talk show host, Fox News Network’s Bill O’Reilly, compared the assignment to teaching “Mein Kampf” in 1941 and questioned the purpose of making freshmen study “our enemy’s religion.” ...

“Islam, like all the other major religions, is a religion of peace or of violence depending on who is interpreting it, and if you look across the Muslim world, you’ll see very different answers,” Sells said. ...

Student body president Jennifer Daum, 21, of Pewaukee, Wis., agrees. “At the very least, it starts a dialogue,” Daum said. “My feeling is that if you’re not prepared to read ideas that are not your own and that you might disagree with, you do not belong at an institution of higher learning.”

Posted 8/7/2002 01:50:02 AM
"The United States government has no right to force Pax Americana on the rest of us, or to unilaterally determine the fate of the world" - Japan Remembers Hiroshima Victims

Posted 8/7/2002 01:22:29 AM

Pakistan School Raid Suspects 'Blow Themselves Up'
REUTERS - August 06, 2002 03:54 PM ET

Posted 8/6/2002 09:45:02 AM


Pakistan Condemns 'Cowardly' Attack

More Pictures

Posted 8/5/2002 02:18:57 PM

First Hand Account of the Terrorist Attack
at Murree Christian School.

Posted 8/5/2002 10:16:11 AM

Monks to start Peace March Tomorrow - DAWN - National; 05 August, 2002

ISLAMABAD, Aug 4: Led by Japanese Buddhist Monk Reverend Terasawa Junsei, monks from Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Kyrgystan will start the Pakistan-India Prayer March for Peace on August 6 - the day the Americans killed thousands by dropping the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima....

After the symbolic march from Bari Imam's shrine to the Shah Faisal Mosque, the monks will walk across Margalla Hills up to the Giri site of Taxila. On Tuesday, a peace meeting will be held in front of the Dharmarajika Stupa at Taxila, in memory of the victims of Hiroshima. To emphasize the dangers faced by Pakistan and India after nuclearization, the monks have chosen to formally start the peace march from Dharmarajika Stupa on Tuesday.

At a time when people of the subcontinent face real prospect of nuclear holocaust out of the height of present military tensions between the two nuclear rivals, the peace march intends to refresh the incidents of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the minds of the people of the Indian subcontinent so that nuclear weapons are never used again, the monks said...

This is beautiful. I so want to be there for this. As a child I took a study trip to Taxila and still have a number of carvings of the Buddha from those ruins near the Dharmarajika Stupa. I believe that more public, symbolic peace marches need to take place on an inter-faith basis--even to go so far as to insert groups into ongoing conflicts...

Posted 8/5/2002 09:59:56 AM

BBC NEWS | South Asia | Gunmen attack Pakistan school


the front gate of my school

Posted 8/5/2002 09:52:02 AM

MCS ATTACK UPDATE

Well, what I know is that two cooks were killed and
two guards and the receptionist. The receptionist was
Padre Javeds youngest son (who used to teach Urdu)
Apparently a load of people stormed the building at
coffee break this morning and proceeded to just shoot
randomly. The kids (who I guess have practised this)
were all taken to some room and told to get down on
the floor. I am surprised and amazed that not more
people were hurt....

My friends here are very close to the Javeed family
and have gone up to see them now. I just got back from
their place, they are obviously very upset too. I am
guessing many... will go back to
their 'home' countries after this, and I guess maybe
they should. It is a target obviously and you've got
to look out for your family. It is starting to border
on the irresponsible staying here with kids... BUT
then, other people in war torn countires don't have
that choice either. I know this is a different
situation. You're right, it was just a matter of time,
mum has been saying it for a long time too.
[quote via email from a source]

Posted 8/5/2002 09:48:19 AM
the kingdom is a flow of conditions that enables something other to emerge in the space between us.

Posted 8/5/2002 08:56:18 AM

the boarding school that my brother and i attended was attacked today.
many killed.

very little coverage at this time.

CNN
PN
MCS

Posted 8/4/2002 09:57:47 PM

Posted 8/4/2002 03:57:39 PM
so, what are the ethical implications of one's children being giddy over the prospect of acquiring music via kazaa? i guess not unlike swapping and copying tapes back in the dark ages...

we have had very specific ongoing discussions about p2p in general and kazaa in particular for a couple of months now. it is amazing how cogently an eight your old can form compare and contrast questions for a field she has very little real direct experience in. sarah's first question in may was, "so how does napster compare with kazaa? why can't kazaa be shut down?"

Posted 8/4/2002 03:13:43 AM
my house lies quiet save for the consistent roll of the air conditioners.
i don't think that there is an mp3 for this moment.

for the first time in my life
i feel like it is truly inevitable
that i will not only be disappointed by,
but will be a very real disappointment to people
i love.
i don't like that.
i am sorry...
in advance.
please forgive me.

the quickest way to not disappoint is to pretend.
i am just not willing to do that anymore.
i guess that means more rough edges will be exposed
than people are generally accustomed to.
it's nothing personal.
except when it is.
i love you...
enough not to bullshit you.