The Southern Poverty Law Center’s ‘Tea…
The Southern Poverty Law Center’s ‘Teaching Tolerance’ project, which develops lesson plans for teachers in k-12 grades to fight prejudice and promote respect for diversity is recommending several of its plans to help teachers cope with the aftermath of the Fort Hood shooting. The motivations behind the shootings are still not clear – but already, a number of Internet commentators are trying to use the shootings to bolster stereotypes and encourage fear of all Muslims and Arab-Americans. The shootings are sure to be a topic of discussion in classrooms in the comin

Seymour Hersh, who won the Pulitzer priz…
Seymour Hersh, who won the Pulitzer prize for exposing the My Lai Massacre during the Vietnam War, writes in The New Yorker that the greatest fear about Pakistani nuclear weapons falling into the hands of terrorists comes not from the Taliban but from the likelihood of a mutiny in the Pakistani military by Islamic extremist officers. The success of the latest attacks raised an obvious question: Are the bombs safe? Asked this question the day after the Rawalpindi raid, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said, “We have confidence in the Pakistani government and the militaryâ€

I think the world is missing something a…
I think the world is missing something about Dr. Nidal Hasan. He was an intelligent, highly-educated officer in the finest military on the planet. He was a human being that was subjected to such horrific stress that it fractured his three great oaths……to al-Islam, to medicine, and to his country. The stress of being deployed to a profoundly unjust war that exists only as a face-saver for moronic WEC proselytizing and meddling. That broke him. Perhaps his agony can at least provoke an honest discussion of why we are still in Iraq and what we should do in Afghanistan. a

At DailyKos, a lengthy and thoughtful re…
At DailyKos, a lengthy and thoughtful review of Karen Armstrong’s A Case for God. a

Elie Wiesel on the GOP Tea Party’s anti…
Elie Wiesel on the GOP Tea Party’s anti-Semitism and Holocaust comparisons: “This kind of political hatred is indecent and disgusting” – The Elie Wiesel Foundation (@eliewieselfdn) on Twitter a