An Amrikan Chimaera, Author at Jollybengali.net - An Amrikan Chimaera's Journey

March 16, 2015 Demosthenes

Islam as a Majority, Christianity as a Minority

An interesting quote from Philip Yancey’s Vanishing Grace: A young Muslim man recently told Yancey, “I have read the entire Koran and can find

Muslim American Flag by Christopher Batchelder, May 2012

March 12, 2015 Locke

American(ized) #Islam

Culture and religion, no matter how universal we may want to view the latter’s principles, are inexorably tied. Islam strives to be a religion

March 4, 2015 Demosthenes

Where Have All the Lone Star Liberals Gone?

Prajwal Kulkarni makes an interesting statement about diversity in an Medium.com essay entitled, “Who Speaks for the Black Pentacostal”: Whatever their differences, they [Christians]

March 2, 2015 Locke

Craft… Or the Unexpected Virtue of Working at Your Work

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the idea of Craft. Of taking what we do and really working on it. Really incorporating skill

February 24, 2015 Demosthenes

From Prayer to Fasting to Kickoff to Happy Hour

This morning, I performed wu’du (ritual cleansing before prayer) for the first time in years. I don’t like wu’du much, it’s a little too

February 18, 2015 Locke

8 Months Later, I Still Miss My Doggy

Eight months ago, I had to put my dog to sleep. Oreo was about 12-14 years old; I had him for six of the

February 11, 2015 Locke

The Moral Therapeutic Deism of ISIS

Rod Dreher, in a characteristically brilliant post entitled When ISIS Ran the American South, reminds us that no society is too far removed, historically-speaking,

January 21, 2015 Demosthenes

Gallifrey Returns… in the Oort Cloud?

Yesterday, I wrote that there is a possibility (but certainly not a probability) that there exists two dark, icy super-Earths somewhere beyond the Oort

January 20, 2015 Of cabbages and kings

Are Scientists on the Verge of Locating the Sith Homeworld?

From the Daily Galaxy: There could be at least two unknown planets hidden well beyond Pluto, whose gravitational influence determines the orbits and strange

January 7, 2015 Demosthenes

Satire, Charlie Hebdo and the Mindset of (some) Muslims

ou… la liberté d’expression est non négociable. The offices of Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical newspaper which has attracted controversy for lampooning Islam and