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Obama Obama! hindi song
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Aziz Poonawalla
This is wonderful and weird. I think it’s wonderful because it is so weird. Perhaps we are seeing the rise of Obollywood?
Obama’s Intelligence Director Dennis Blair and East Timor genocide
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Aziz Poonawalla
Gary Farber sounded the alarm last month about President Obama’s nominee for National Intelligence Director, Denis Blair, who was complicit in genocide in East Timor during the Clinton Administration. Unfortunately, no questions were asked about East Timor during Blair’s confirmation hearing. Blair also refused to categorically state what the attorney general already said explicitly, that…
Obama and Ummah: healing 1400 year-old wounds
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Aziz Poonawalla
The following anecdote is written by my friend Aamer Jamali, via email a few weeks ago (prior to the Inauguration). I have his permission to reprint it here. Of all the things to remember about my Hajj trip (and there are right now, too many to recount) an especially illustrative anecdote stands out in my…
celebrating Obama in Kenya
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Aziz Poonawalla
Having just returned from my trip to Kenya, I saw firsthand how Obama’s Kenyan roots are a matter of national pride there. Obama’s face graced the papers almost every other day, and our taxi driver proudly told us he was of the Luo tribe and came from the village adjacent to Obama’s ancestral hamlet. Hearing…
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