Category Archives: Islam

Decoding The Anti-Israel, Pro-Palestine Campus Protests (5-5-24)

01:00 My analysis of campus protests: https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15496103:00 National Review: Since When Does Criminal Law Not Apply to College Campus Protests?,https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/since-when-does-criminal-law-not-apply-to-college-campus-protests/10:00 New York Times podcast on campus protests, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV1_3EovQZs13:00 Journalist Lydia Polgreen, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Polgreen16:30 Victor Davis Hanson: Radical Far-Left Palestine protests threaten … Continue reading

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Decoding The Anti-Israel, Pro-Palestine Campus Protests (5-1-24)

01:00 I started a Tiktok channel, https://www.tiktok.com/@lukeford61303:00 ‘Unacceptable’: Why it took hours for police to quell attack at UCLA pro-Palestinian camp, https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-01/why-did-it-take-police-so-long-to-end-the-violent-clashes-at-ucla06:00 LAT: After violent night at UCLA, UC president launches investigation into response, https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-30/ucla-moves-to-shut-down-pro-palestinian-encampment-as-unlawful08:00 A timeline of UCLA violence, … Continue reading

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The Drums Of War (10-10-23)

01:00 Israel vs Hamas, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15299205:00 Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children died as a result of American sanctions, https://www.gicj.org/positions-opinons/gicj-positions-and-opinions/1188-razing-the-truth-about-sanctions-against-iraq10:00 What Makes A Great Pundit?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15296122:00 New Yorker: Jake Sullivan’s Trial by Combat: Inside the White House’s battle to keep Ukraine … Continue reading

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The Case For Muslim Immigration

In all the articles decrying Donald Trump’s attempts to limit Muslim immigration, I didn’t see many arguments for why America benefits from Muslim immigration. Why don’t minority groups put more effort into making the case that they benefit the majority? … Continue reading

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Islam and Religious Studies Post-9/11

Aaron W. Hughes writes in his book Theorizing Islam: “When one permits those whom one studies to define the terms in which they will be understood, suspends one’s interest in the temporal and the contingent, or fails to distinguish between … Continue reading

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