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Groundswell-movement.org sent me an email pointing to the video Finally! A Muslim-American woman changes how the media talks about Islam.

This video of a Muslim-American woman from New York challenging Islamophobia on CNN might change the way we talk about Islam in the media.

The Islamophobia begins at 00:13, meant to frighten us and turn us against our neighbors—but Linda breaks through at the 1-minute mark with some prophetic truth that we all need to hear.

This is the kind of sense I would like to make common on my blog and elsewhere.

We need to concentrate on catching criminals and avoiding creating feelings of hopelessness. We do not need to be fomenting more hate. We have more than enough hate to go around already.

The Atlanta Banana has the story Supreme Court Upholds Little Caesar’s Right to Feed Christian Employees to Lions. For crying out loud, this story is in The Atlanta Banana, do I have to put a warning on what type of story this is?

Little Caesar’s argued that the persecution of Christians and the feeding of them to ravenous big cats was a “deeply held” religious belief, that the continued survival of the roughly 6,000 Christian employees, as well as the fact that they remained on company payroll, imposed a “substantial financial burden” on their religious liberty.

Have I not given you fair warning? You can’t be surprised by what you read in the article, can you?

By the way, thanks to Randy Katz for posting this on his Facebook page.

The article Why 10% of the Population Hates Cilantro and the Rest Doesn’t Know Any Better finally explains why Sharon and I are not alone in our dislike for cilantro.

The first time I tried cilantro I didn’t realize it; I just thought somebody had emptied a bottle of Old Spice on my pizza in an attempt to poison me. Cilantro tastes like soap to approximately 10% of the people who have had their genotype analyzed by 23andMe

Thanks to Sarah Clark for posting this on her Facebook page.