Eboo Patel on Ayaan Hirsi Ali

http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/eboo_patel/2007/10/ayaann_hirsi_ali_attacks_the_w.html

(from 2007, via Cyrus)

After Tunisia: Obama's Impossible Dilemma in Egypt

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/01/after-tunisia-obamas-impossible-dilemma-in-egypt/70123/

via Haroon

Pope Invites his Flock to Join Facebook: Is the Digital Reformation Here?..

http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/atheologies/4100/pope_invites_his_flock_to_join_facebook%3A_is_the_digital_reformation_here__/

Stephen Walt: Why the State of the Union Speech doesn't matter

http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/01/25/why_the_state_of_the_union_speech_doesn_t_matter

Thought for the Day, 5 January 2011 Abdal Hakim Murad

http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/programmes/thought/documents/t20110105.shtml

(Re: Obama's state of the union) Unity yes, but for what?...

Alternative view...

"I believe in coalitions," Rep. [Ron] Paul echoed. "They talk about we need more bipartisanship, and I say we have too much bipartisanship because the bipartisanship we have here in Washington endorses corporatism."

Ron Paul, Ralph Nader agree on ‘progressive-libertarian alliance’

NYT: 'An Islamic View of Parenting'

http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/12/an-islamic-view-of-parenting/

NPR: New Terrorism Adviser (Quintan Wiktorowicz)

http://www.npr.org/2011/01/24/133125267/new-terrorism-adviser-takes-a-broad-tent-approach

via Faiza and others

Report: Urgent action needed to avert global hunger

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12249909