“Once again, someone feels compelled to prove the intellectual superiority of their position by killing scores of random civilians.” - Bill Weinberg
The quote is from a post about today’s episode of mass murder in India.
Minorities fear reprisals: Within minutes, seven explosions on the railway that forms Mumbai’s spinal cord left at least 163 people dead and possibly more than 1,000 wounded in one of the worst terrorist attacks in India.But, the violent don't have any concern at all about “intellectual” superiority.
Taliban use beheadings and beatings to keep Afghanistan's Schools Closed: The letter pinned overnight to the wall of the mosque in Kandahar was succinct. "Girls going to school need to be careful for their safety. If we put acid on their faces or they are murdered then the blame will be on their parents." Today the local school stands empty, victim of what amounts to a Taliban war on knowledge.The violence is simple assault upon the very concept of modern knowledge.
Wisconsin ACLU Supports 9/11 Denier Barrett: Today, the American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin applauded the University of Wisconsin – Madison for adhering to the University’s own policies and procedures that protect academic freedom, when making its decision to allow a lecturer, Kevin Barrett, to continue to teach a course this fall entitled Islam: Religion and Culture.A sign of success being when knowledge and opinion are treated as interchangeable, because the requirement to differentiate between right and wrong is not a serious consideration.
