QUOTES OF THE DAY
Boycotters' regret
This was a wake-up call for the Sunnis that boycotting the political process is not the interests of anyone.
-- Hashem Hassani, former spokesman of the Iraqi Islamic Party, a Sunni slate that refused to take part in the elections
(Farnaz Fassihi, Wall Street Journal)
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Voter boycott--or voter suppression?
They prevented 90 percent of Sunnis from voting.
-- Mishaan al-Jabouri, a Sunni Arab who evidently voted. Mr. Jabouri also told the Boston Globe's Ann Barnard:
It's better than Saddam's day. . . . We're talking against the government, and no one's executing us, like before.
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Even morally obtuse pseudo-revolutionary poseur-Native American academics have friends.
I've read a fair amount of [Ward Churchill's] work, and a lot of it is excellent, penetrating and of high scholarly quality.
-- Noam Chomsky, quoted in the Denver Post, February 9 (via: Frontpage Magazine)
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He'll work week-ends and over-time, too
It doesn’t matter to me: Two, four, 10 — As long as I’m doing God’s will, it doesn’t matter how many people I execute.
-- Muhammad Saad Al-Beshi, Saudi Arabia's chief executioner in a must-read interview