TweetWhy is a northern Iowa town named for an Arab/Muslim hero? There are almost 20,000 cities incorporated in the United States. Elkader, Iowa, may be the only city in America named after an Arab Muslim. Emir Abdelkader was a young Algerian hero who fought French settlers for almost 20 years in the mid-19th century. How did a small town in the northeast corner of Iowa get a name like Elkader, a name that in the post-9/11, post-Trump era could get you kicked off a flight? I have a friend who, after 9/11, changed his name from El-Kader to Randy to avoid trouble at the airport and the hassle of spelling…
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THE KISS OF DEATH!
TweetThe Kiss of Death Luis Rubiales, Spanish Football Federation chief, is resigning after the kiss scandal. Luis Rubiales kissed star player Jenni Hermoso on the lips as he handed the Spanish team gold medals last month, provoking outrage and protests from Spanish national players and the sports community, resulting in a global reckoning and turmoil. A few minutes before the Kiss, it didn’t help to see Mr. Rubiales grabbing his crotch as a victory gesture at the exclusive section sitting with Queen Letizia of Spain and 16-year-old Princess Sofia nearby. During his press conference, Mr. Rubiales repeatedly refused to resign and got a standing ovation.
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OPPENHEIMER, AND THE TREASON OF THE INTELLECTUALS!!
TweetOppenheimer and The Treason of the Intellectuals! History taught us that Intellectuals mostly commit treasons because they can easily justify them, from those who stood against revolutions in France to those who stood against revolutions in Arab Spring. Those intellectuals justified wars, supported kings and dictators, and counter-revolutions. The French essayist Julien Benda, in an essay published in 1927, “La Trahison des clercs,” is an attack on the intellectual corruption of the age. Thanks to such men, Benda wrote, “Humanity did evil for two thousand years but honored good.”. However, our modern civilization slipped to honor hatred, nationalism, and racism, when man now substituted action over the idea, and success…