I happened to read an article the other day, “Representative Ayanna Pressley questions US aid to Israel ‘that is used to demolish Palestinian homes,’” by Emma Platoff, Boston Globe, May 14, 2021. It was, obviously, written before the ceasefire went into effect on May 21, about Representative Ayanna Pressley, the least-discussed member of the […]
Boston Globe columnist likens Trump supporters to ISIS
See the difference? Me neither. pic.twitter.com/vRkGJOoyZ9 — Renée Graham ?️? (@reneeygraham) October 31, 2020 I could begin to enumerate all the differences — the beheading of captives, the sex slaves, the jihad massacres, the commodification women and institutionalization of second-class status for them, and so much more, but that would be to act as if […]
That “Trump Muslim Ban” Is Still With Us
A column in the Boston Sunday Globe for February 9 – “Trump’s acquittal could be a dangerous turning point” – by Michael A. Cohen, caught my attention, or rather, its first two paragraphs caught my attention, infuriated me, and I saw no reason to read further. Here is what Cohen the Globe columnist wrote: Three […]
Youssef Eddafali Just Can’t Figure Out What Made Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Do It
Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was back in the news in mid-December appealing to get his death penalty overturned. This recalls to mind a piece that was written last year — I suspect with considerable help in the actual composition — by Youssef Eddafali, a Moroccan immigrant, and published in the Boston Globe, about his […]
Muslim arrested for threats at DC airport, causing disturbances in Boston — left Qur’an on steps of public building
Aziz Rehman Osmani was arrested “after allegedly making threats at Reagan National Airport in Washington D.C. and causing two reported disturbances” in Boston, one at a jewelry store. Note this quote in the Boston Globe report below: Osmani was allegedly seen leaving a “suspicious device” on the steps the John W. McCormack Building on Beacon […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Mr. Allen’s Report
This past Sunday’s Boston Globe carried a front-page article — which continued onto and filled most of two inside pages — on “The New Christian Martyrs.” The author, John L. Allen, Jr., a member of the Globe Staff, whose usual beat is the Vatican, would — I was certain even before I started reading — […]