479 Repent, Recant!
A few quick links:
- Mango Girl digs up a truly bizarre ’80s pop song about the Lebanese Civil War. Repent, ye earnest ’80s Lebanese rockers! Worst part is, I bet the ’80s are back with a vengeance in Beirut. I mean the fashion, not the sectarianism, though perhaps there’s a connection. Strange fashion and a millenarian mood seem to go together.
- Marc Lynch has an interesting and link-rich post about the recantation of Dr. Fadl (Sayid Imam Sharif) of Islamic Jihad notoriety, and on the recanting-old-Islamist phenomenon in general. He stops short of getting into the freedom-for-confession-and-recantation “rehabilitation” program, and (I suspect) has to pull the punches on his skepticism as a result, but I have the feeling this won’t be his last word on the subject.
- Ken Silverstein at Harper‘s holds Roger Cohen’s feet to the fire for a horrible column he wrote about Mubarak some months ago. Rightly so. Full takedown here: “Roger Cohen: Viva Mubarak, Fuera Chavez!” Cohen should take a tip from Dr. Fadl and recant, lest he spend All Eternity listening to himself read that column. Or just come back to Cairo and take a look around. The weather’s lovely this time of year.
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