July 31, 2003 | 1 Jumada al-Akhir 1424 Hijriah
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veiled4allahmystical philosophy on a desert island, the fascinating journey of Hayy Ibn Yaqzan
The article, Betwixt the Conceptual and the Affective: Hayy Ibn Yaqzan Revisited by Ahmed El-Sayed, a doctoral student in philosophy, looks at Hayy Ibn Yaqzan, a novel by the Andalusian Muslim philosopher ibn Tufayl (d. 1184 C.E.). The article is...
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The ClipboardPower Over the People
Political observers often have wondered why Democrats, especially liberals, didn't put up more of a fight against the Patriot Act, which passed the Senate with only one dissenting vote. Many thought it was because Dems didn't have the guts to...
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The ClipboardTerrorism: There's No Futures in It
Of course, no one expected DARPA's John M. Poindexter - notorious for his eventually overturned conviction for lying to Congress about Irangate - to approach the problem from the perspective of economic theory. But what was he thinking? Did he...
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The ClipboardJim Crow in Cyberspace, Part VI
I now began to understand the brilliant deviltry of the Black voter purge game. It did not matter if, on Day One of the purge process, Republicans had some grand plan, some elaborate conspiracy, to eliminate the vote of African-American...
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The ClipboardJim Crow in Cyberspace, Part V
A loose clue still nagged me. As always, it was the money. When I looked into state files, I discovered that ChoicePoint's DBT was not the first contractor on the job. In 1998, this first firm, Professional Service Inc., charged...
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The ClipboardJim Crow in Cyberspace, Part IV
Our ten-county review suggests a minimum 15 percent misidentification rate. That makes another 7,000 innocent people accused of crimes and stripped of their citizenship rights in the run-up to the presidential race, a majority of them Black. Now our team,...
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The ClipboardPatriot Act: The Sequel
Much attention is being paid to the selective editing of the report, apparently to protect the Saudis. I think an equally important piece of the report is on the bureaucratic tangle that prevents anyone from being accountable for much of...
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veiled4allahMuslims and ACLU mount legal challenge to Patriot Act
Several Muslim groups and organizations are suing the government on the grounds that part of the Patriot Act is unconstitutional. The ACLU is representing them. Thecomplaint (a legal document filed by the plaintiff in a civil suit setting out why...
