Well, UBL’s lovely letter to the American people is making the rounds on the net. He (or whoever really wrote the letter) is going out of his way to demonstrate to us just how totally demented, delusional and evil he and his followers really are, as well as how many idiotic lies he can fit into one 4,000 word diatribe. Well done, guy.
The Jordanians are keeping some 3,000 palestinian pilgrims cooling their heels at the Allenby Bridge instead of allowing them to traverse the Hashemite Kingdom on their way to Mecca. It seems there’s some concern that they might decide to squat in Jordan rather than return to their “homeland.â€
Meryl has put up some cool digital photos of really big guns as well as Silent Running blogger Bruce Hill, who was visiting her this weekend.
Chris Newman points to a most interesting essay by Aziz Poonawalla in which he discusses Islam’s relationship with modernity in the context of a recent (but pre-9-11) book on the subject.
Which I guess brings us full circle, as Aziz and the author have a very different point of view than that expressed in the UBL letter.
(BTW, I could swear that the comments I saw on that thread earlier today have vanished, and perhaps it’s just as well. More on this topic, i.e., comments, in the near future).
