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Killing by the numbersOccasional readers will be glancingly aware of the fact that your correspondent has a certain love/hate relationship with the New York Times – an emotion to which the Gray Lady herself remains regally indifferent. But “paper of record” and deeply imprinted biases aside, the Sunday Times, especially, is a rare and – at five clams our here on the left coast, expensive – treat. Rip out the opinion page straightaway and burn it in the fireplace. Then read the news (as much for what isn’t said) before heading to the Weekend magazine and the NYT Review of Books and you have a very pleasant, and I might even say, educational Sunday afternoon in front of you. Like, for example, this weekend’s review of the ruleset governing jihad – when it is and isn’t permissible to slaughter non-combatants generally, and women and children specifically according to the Holy Qu’uran. (Here’s a hint for those who are in a hurry this morning: It’s pretty much always permissible.)
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“But militant Islamists including extremists in Jordan who embrace Al Qaeda?
I get it.
Sorta, kinda like “reading” Playboy fer the articles/interviews, eh?
Fishwrap is fishwrap.
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For the Sunday Times, my mythical parrot will make an exception, and permit it to be placed in the cage.
Along with a very large meal of bananas, figs and lots of yogurt. Lots. of. yogurt.
Weekend Magazine and the NYT Review of books are perfect for –well, if you hold your nose you’ll eventually see a very contented bird taking a nap.
It being so ‘absorbent’ and all.
I’m with Lex – I also read the Sunday NY Times. And he’s right, it’s as much a treat for what you DON’T read as what you do. Sometimes their attempts at trying to seem unbiased are really quite amusing.
The referenced article did give me pause this morning as well – as much for the contradictions built into as for anything else. Especially the part about it being OK to kill others as long as you are in the country of your birth…which makes the events of the first WTC bombing, the USS Cole, 9/11…all the more puzzling. That and the fact that a Muslim spokesman indicated the the 9/11 hijackers “…did not violate this rule since the hijackers came from outside the United States…”
Oh yeah, and that banks are acceptable targets because “…they charge interest, and this is in violation of Islamic law…”
Yeah, that’s the ticket. Butchers.
Vole (ger; Voll)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vole
I think I’m going to be ill.
Etiquette? Emily Post is spinning like a spit roast.
As much as this article must have upset the urbane Sunday brunches of so many NYT readers, it in fact hides more than it reveals. See Robert Spencer at the following:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/016851.php
I quit reading newspapers when I went back to school and had no time for anything except for studying and driving 40 miles each way. Haven’t missed much except for the store sales ads. Now I check out different sources online for my news fixes.
I’m glad someone can stand to read them….