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Japanese Islamicate Art as Interpretive Imagination: An Introduction

NAOKI YAMAMOTO, The Way of Futuwwa AUG 6 This is the introduction to a lecture I will be giving in Istanbul next week. — “What Do You See?” When I was training in the Japanese tea ceremony, my tea master once pointed to a hanging scroll in the tea room and asked me, “What do you feel when you look…

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“Rules of War” or Why It’s Okay to Bomb Palestinians and Persians

By Kabir Helminski A deep prejudice against Islam runs in the veins of many Westerners. Palestinians and Iranians have been the target of dehumanizing lies, a classic case of psychological projection in which Israel and the West accuse Muslims of the kind of crimes they themselves are guilty of. In flagrant denial of their own crimes, they project the mirror…

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