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Christians do takfir on Obama
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Aziz Poonawalla
Takfir is what excommunication is called in Islam – the process of declaring someone to be outside the faith. This is a pernicious concept because it is usually used by self-appointed guardians of the faith to try and impose their own strict interpretations on others. In many ways, it’s as much a political act as…
Obama’s private photos from Election Night
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Aziz Poonawalla
Obama’s private election night photos are up on Flickr – I really love this sequence in particular.
playing with fire
By
Aziz Poonawalla
Newsweek is doing a seven-part story on the 2008 campaign which provides all manner of fascinating behind-the-scenes perspectives. The installment on the period of time spanning the debates is notable for the discussion of how the Otherization of Obama proceeded in the background: At the Clearwater rally, someone in the crowd used a racial epithet…
Mandate – Obama takes North Carolina
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Aziz Poonawalla
Incredible. North Carolina is now officially for Obama, bringing his EV total to 364 and total number of states flipped from red to blue to nine. Missouri is the sole remaining state to be counted, with a margin of mere 10,000 votes in McCain’s advantage so far. If MO also flips blue then that will…
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