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The Mess in Texas

So: a hate group in Texas mounts an art show featuring cartoons of the Muslim prophet.

At the urging of a local imam, the local Muslim community decides to respond with silence. No one pickets, blogs, editorializes, or writes about it in the press. No one does anything whatsoever to give the show any publicity.

An expatriate American who has gone to Syria to fight for the So-Called So-Called spreads word of the show on the web, urging retaliation.

Two Muslim converts from another state drive to Texas, wound a security guard, and are themselves killed. “Allah, accept your mujahideen,” one tweets.

The So-Called So-Called claims responsibility.

As one who strives to live in accordance with the thews (virtues) of the ancestors, I ask myself:

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  • Greybeard
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  • Aryós Héngwis
    Aryós Héngwis says #
    Your comments are trending remarkably close to Islamophobia. While the actions of the Islamic State / ISIL are deplorable, there's
  • Steven Posch
    Steven Posch says #
    The FBI defines a hate group as one whose "primary purpose is to promote animosity, hostility, and malice against persons belongin
  • Renet
    Renet says #
    You should dig a little deeper and know of the fundraising at that same location not long before by muslims. The Art show, which i
  • Aryós Héngwis
    Aryós Héngwis says #
    Hate speech is a form of violence though a lesser form than violent assault and murder. I think it's fair to describe both groups
PaganNewsBeagle Faithful Friday Sept 5

Its Faithful Friday here at the Beagle, and we have stories of faith from all religions. Interfaith work, an Indian temple, Jews & Arabs as neighbors, rewilding Paganism and everything you didn't want to know (but should) about "Islamic State."

Is interfaith work -- between Pagans and non-Pagans -- important work or just a distraction? Ryn Fox at the Wild Hunt discusses the issues.

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