Today I was fortunate enough to make it to the Yale Center for British Art’s Pearls to Pyramids: British Visual Culture and the Levant, 1600-1830 and The Lure of the East: British Orientalist Painting, 1830-1925 exhibits. Showcasing rare and original paintings, prints, maps, sketches, and artifacts from several great painters of the period. “Pearls to [...]
Archive for March 6th, 2008
A Hole in the Orient
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Of Melians
Posted in American Muslims, Arab Americans, Clinton, Muslims, Obama, bigotry, politics, realism, religion on 6 March, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In a heartening instance of moral clarity, Dan Abrams became one of the first major television commentators to expressly condemn the anti-Muslim incitement coming from the Clinton campaign. When asked whether or not she thought that Senator Obama was a Muslim, Senator Clinton stated that as far as she knew he was not.
Abrams stated that [...]