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04 Friday Apr 2014

Posted by in Anti-Semitism, Conflict - Culture - Language - Psychology

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Link to Qanta Ahmed’s “Honor Diaries: Silencing Speaks Volumes”

Victims of honor crimes are silenced. Victims of honor crimes are shamed. Victims of honor crimes are made pariahs. And, often, victims of honor crimes are extinguished. This week, Honor Diaries, a documentary focusing on the global manifestations of honor violence, was itself silenced, when two American universities — the University of Michigan at Dearborn and the University of Illinois in Chicago — canceled planned screenings. With this act of censorship, the movie has become a metaphor for its message. Just like the women and girls it portrays, the movie has been silenced and its progenitors shamed.

Honor Diaries (via Amazon)

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Rights & Wrongs: The Story of Women in Islam (web site).

Shankar, Abha.  “Cries of Islamophobia Silence Debate on Muslim Honor Killings.”  The Investigative Project on Terrorism.  April 4, 2014.

The Stoning of Soraya M (via Amazon).

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Scholastic Deletes Israel from New Textbook — Retracts . . . .

15 Friday Nov 2013

Posted by in Conflict - Culture - Language - Psychology, Islamic Small Wars, North America, Politics, United States of America

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Scholastic Deletes Israel from New Textbook — Retracts . . . .

Scholastic Magazine — http://magazines.scholastic.com/ — left or removed the entire State of Israel on a an American publication gone to press.

Biggest children’s book publisher erases Israel from map | The Times of Israel – 11/13/2013.

I wonder how that happened.

To the publisher’s credit, the run was retrieved and corrected.

Both following and defying what I’ll call “Black Swan Theory”, one really does wish to know how Scholastic’s graphic artists and proofreaders missed this egregious error.

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