Sunday, January 14, 2007
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Annie Jacobsen: The Airport Fatwa - 'A fatwa has been sent to officials at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport by the Muslim American Society – an Islamic revival and reform moment. The group’s fatwa calls for the discrimination of passengers at airports. Is this cause for alarm? ‘Fatwa,’ to the western ear, is a menacing word. In the Muslim world, ‘fatwa’ is commonly heard. Put the words ‘US airport’ and ‘fatwa’ together and you get east meets west. Is this assembly ominous or unexceptional? To find out more, I telephoned Mahdi Bray...'
