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The mask and shell of self loathing

We have numerous young Muslims who have — in this self-ghettoization — chosen to take up the role of “the enemy” assuming that the world is at war with them. They speak with artificial accents, dress in clothes that to them seems more “authentically Islamic” and speak with vicious, sweeping language about the Other. But [...]

Civil Rights vs “stay the course”

On Thursday US-Judge Anna Diggs Taylor ordered a stop to the NSA-SpySurveillance-program in a major blow to President Bush’s “stay the course”-slogan. In the case ACLU vs NSA the judge agreed that the surveillance-program collided with the first and fourth amendment of the US-Constitution and the Seperation of Power Doctrine and was therefore illegal as long as the NSA doesn’t get a judge’s permission to observe and spy on a specific person or organisation.

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