Why The Islamic State Is Not Really Islamic – The Intercept

while the Islamic State is superficially and opportunistically Islamic, it owes at least as much to secular revolutionary ideologies as to its claimed religion, and borrows heavily from Western systems of organization and pop culture as well. via Why The Islamic State Is Not Really Islamic – The Intercept. This is precisely my comeback to the “New Atheists” who display Continue Reading

MLK the economic radical (aka “Communist” “Socialist” etc.) for which many adoring media would still oppose strongly #OWS

The criticism Dr. King received for these stances was fierce, and media coverage even among the outlets that had given sympathetic perspectives on the Civil Rights marches in the South began to echo the J. Edgar Hoover accusations that Dr. King was a Communist and subversive. via MLK and the struggle for environmental justice.. Malcolm X is depicted as telling Continue Reading