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April 28, 2015 Demosthenes

Would MLK be able to help today?

When in doubt, look to Ta-Nehisi Coates to describe the situation in Baltimore so much better than I could: When nonviolence is preached as

April 15, 2015 Demosthenes

Muslim or Black in America

I think, if there’s one thing I will like about President Obama’s term coming to an end, it is that perhaps the extreme right-wing

April 13, 2015 Demosthenes

Hillary Clinton and the Theatre of Stupid

… Or Hillary Clinton for President! Because Rednecks, That’s Why… Yesterday, Hillary Clinton finally officially announced that she’s running for Pres-o-dent of the Amrika.

March 23, 2015 Demosthenes

Prophet human

Or… God Uppercase I just started reading Rashed Hasan’s new treatise, Removing the Middleman: Deciphering Faith Without Ritual. The book is intended to be

March 19, 2015 Demosthenes

I’m Glad I Didn’t Get Into An Ivy League School

… Or I Would Choose Pitt over Penn if I Had To Do It Again It’s the silly time of the year known as

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

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]

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

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 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