if i was wise enough i'd have converted, to mind you. although less the Ave Caesar salute and more akin to: who's up for ****, *******? the Islam has changed. the Islam of the 1960s isn't the Islam of today. it really, really, really doesn't matter. it isn't really the prescription of Nietzsche had before the Heraclitus flux took sway and said: waterfall or lottery.
The Islam of Malcolm X isn't the Islam of today. The net result of the preferences of women, people of color, youth and poor people being ignored is to push American policy in a more conservative direction.Now you're dead, as you fall to the ground. The problem is that support for these policies is concentrated among the poor, people of color and women–the groups policymakers are least likely to listen to. Meanwhile, "As male support increases from 0 percent to 100 percent, the odds of policy enactment rise from about 0 percent to about 90 percent." What this means for current policy debates: "there is still strong support for redistribution and policies to reduce inequality among Americans. As Sean McElwee explains at Salon, Stephanopoulos' study shows that the preferences of women, people of color, and low-income people have almost no effect on public policy-in fact, women's support for a policy means it's less likely that policy-makers will pass it. That might not be too surprising to any cynical leftists out there, but the degree to which that's the case, as detailed in a new study by Nicholas Stephanopoulos, is depressing. "If the community doesn't step up, the military will come in." (Edward Ericson Jr.)īreaking news: American politics are dictated by the views of rich white men. "We are the last hope this city has," the Post quotes him saying. It's when a human being develops or matures, when you reach a certain point of clarity." Of course he still has doubters, but no self-doubt. "It's not explainable, because it's not common," he said, recalling the moment. "Whatever to get them away from the idea of using a gun." Bahar tells the Post that he was inspired by God to do this work while studying at Morgan State.
"We're only addressing the violence," he tells his men. He has rigid ideas about the roles of men and women, and he makes his volunteers do sets of push-ups. He shot a kid with a BB gun as a teenager, spent time in juvi, and sold drugs, according to the story. The Post piece details Bahar's criminal past. Bahar appeared at City Council meetings years ago to announce his project, which recruits young men into what he hopes will be a movement for peace. Perhaps the most remarkable and encouraging thing about Bahar, a tax consultant who runs a martial arts studio, is his consistency. Paul Schwartzman of the Washington Post has a profile of Munir Bahar, founder of the 300 Men March that encourages young men to stop killing each other.