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“Islam” as the West’s Symptom

“Islam” as the West’s Symptom

I “Amina Arraf” was a fictitious character, the online equivalent to a cross-dresser, she was a forty year old white American male’s elaborate hoax. Amina was Tom MacMaster’s exotic lesbian alias, in his imaginative reflections on [...]

Tom MacMaster, “Amina Arraf” & CentCom

Tom MacMaster, “Amina Arraf” & CentCom

What does a Syrian blog, a PhD student in Scotland, and the American Military Central Command (CentCom) have in common? The news that a Syrian activist blogger, who happened to also be female, was in fact [...]