FBI To Probe Case of 3 Muslim Students Slain in NC From the Raleigh NC News & Observer, Feb. 13, 2015: RALEIGH — As thousands of mourners prayed for the three Muslim-American students killed in Chapel Hill this week, the FBI opened its own investigation into the case Thursday. In a brief news release late in … Continue reading Update: FBI To Probe Muslim Killings In NC
Thursday: 3 Muslim Students Murdered–Over Parking? This nearby shocker pretty much took over my day Wednesday. It’s still unfolding. And without drawing any final conclusions, here’s how it stands, as far as I can see now: The victims were all students: Deah Barakat, Yusor Abu-Salha, and Razan Abu-Salha. The accused shooter, Craig Hicks, is a very … Continue reading 3 NC Muslim Students Murdered
Quakers, Nonviolence & ISIS: A Dead End? A Quaker married to a non-Friend pleaded for help the other day, because her husband was very skeptical that any non-warlike response to the brutal conquests of ISIS in the the Middle East would have any chances of success. She couldn’t think of any adequate peaceful response, but … Continue reading Quakers, Nonviolence & ISIS
So maybe I’ll look at Go Set A Watchman, and maybe not. But pending some more definite negative news, I’m much inclined to think that the one person safest from all this kerfuffle may well be Harper Lee herself.
Especially if they let her be the Boo Radley (rather than Scout) she recently described herself as: in which case, a book may come out, but she won’t, and no mockingbirds will die.
Still, I’ll keep checking the big knothole in that old tree down the block every time I pass it. Just in case.
“Trying to write laws that clearly are outside the constitutionality of his state, trying to override the entire judicial system, that’s very, very dangerous,” said Arthur Caplan, a New York University bioethicist who edited a book about the Schiavo case. “When you’re willing to do that, you’re willing to break the back of the country.”