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Category Archives: Islam
The Mixed Benefits Of Immigration
The Washington Post reported: MAGA has a new cautionary tale: England Anti-Muslim rhetoric was prominent at a conference where Trump administration allies called Britain the “canary in the coal mine” for problems they attributed to mass migration. Leaders of the … Continue reading
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The most powerful systems of epistemic closure in America today
Written with ChatGPT: Epistemic closure = when a community defines what can and cannot be questioned, and enforces consensus not through argument but by gatekeeping who counts as credible. Stephen P. Turner’s point is that closure is inevitable; the question … Continue reading
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Trump Bombed Iran – Now What? (6-22-25)
01:00 The MSM’s lack of sophistication, so what should you expect from the news?04:00 Video: “Israel Has Walked Off a Cliff” – John Mearsheimer, Alexander Mercouris & Glenn Diesen, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dalbnR8vNvs07:00 The Israeli stock market booms, https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israeli-stock-market-iran-conflict-9231579639:00 Michael joins to discuss … Continue reading
Israel vs Iran Day 3 (6-15-25)
01:00 Israel is achieving everything it wants, Iran achieving almost nothing but survival.03:00 FT: Iran’s authoritarian friends, Russia and China, are unlikely to prop up the regime if it does start to wobble. Russia did so in Syria in 2015 … Continue reading
Nobody Runs Society
Philosopher Michael Huemer writes Sep. 7: * While Joe Biden was still running for President, people were saying that he was a puppet, controlled by some other forces. A popular theory on the right is that this was “Obama’s third … Continue reading
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
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
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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