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The Taliban’s Morale

POST by Elan Journo | View All Posts   February 24, 2012
The Taliban and Islamist forces in Afghanistan have had their momentum reversed, their will to fight sapped — or so our policymakers would have us believe. But is that an accurate assessment?
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Draw Mohammad, Risk Your Life?

POST by Elan Journo | View All Posts   October 06, 2010
Molly Norris was a cartoonist for the Seattle Weekly, and although she’s still alive, she’s gone “ghost”: leaving her job, moving, changing her name, and essentially erasing any traces of her identity. For fear of her life.
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Disconnected Dots

POST by Elan Journo | View All Posts   January 12, 2010
Last week President Obama claimed that “our intelligence community failed to connect those dots” signaling a plot to blow up Flight 253. But ritual flogging of the intelligence community has diverted attention from a larger failure — this one belonging squarely on Obama’s shoulders.
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Surrender in book on Mohammad cartoons

POST by Elan Journo | View All Posts   September 04, 2009
The Washington Post has come out swinging against Yale University Press for deciding to cut visual depictions of Mohammad from a new scholarly book on the Danish cartoons crisis. The book, "Cartoons that Shook the World" by Jytte Klausen, was purged not only of the 12 infamous cartoons, but also of an illustration from a children’s book and other artistic depictions of the prophet.
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