Christian mobs rampaged through a southern Nigerian city Tuesday, burning mosques and killing several people in an outbreak of anti-Muslim violence that followed deadly protests against caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad over the weekend. Residents and witnesses in the southern, predominantly Christian city of Onitsha said several Muslims with origins in the north were beaten [...]

Hamas has decided to call off a planned visit to Jordan, Palestinian sources told the London-based Al-Hayat daily. Meshaâ??al hamasThe reason for the move, which was cited on the Monday edition of the newspaper, was that Jordan opposed that the political-bureau chief Khalid Meshaâ??al heading the delegation, because he holds Jordanian citizenship. Instead, Jordan preferred [...]

A right-wing British historian goes on trial Monday on charges of denying the Holocaust occurred â?? a crime punishable by up to 10 years’ imprisonment in this country once run by the Nazis. The trial of David Irving opens amid fresh â?? and fierce â?? debate over freedom of expression in Europe, where the printing [...]

Andy Dick’s Day Job… [by way of: sean coon]

Right: Denmark’s Freedom of Expression Left: America’s Freedom of Expression The strongest signal on the controversy over freedom of expression came from the United States though, when US officials slammed the airing by an Australian TV channel of new images of abuse suffered by Iraqi prisoners at the hands of their US jailers. The SBS [...]

They paved paradise and put up a… For the last 40 years Mohammed Hamdi Bader has left his tailor’s shop in the Old City once a month and taken a short walk to the heart of west Jerusalem where he prayed close to his grandfather’s grave. But the 49-year-old Palestinian father-of-five can no longer reach [...]

From an empty room into a den of thieves God waits for me to turn the tide but stubborn waters and stubborn tongues are unyielding so instead I wait for signs so instead I draw halos in the sand with promises to change to turn these circles into squares shape this clay into a fist [...]

So what’s been blaring out of my headphones this week you ask? (lets pretend you asked) I just started listening to The Weepies and so far they have some really stellar songs. It’s basically songwriters Steve Tannen and Deb Talan creating some great tunes in the folk-pop genre. I heard them first on an episode [...]