I’ve Moved!
November 20, 2008
So I’m sure that most people have noticed that the site has been offline for a few days. There’s a reason for that, which I will get to shortly. But first, let me just say this:
In fact, I am blogging at a new site I have just finished setting up: kennethhynek.net. A full explanation for the reasons behind the move can be found here
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That said, this is not the end of Time Immortal. My wife Grace has expressed interest in taking over blogging at this domain, and I am working to make sure that she gets set up here as soon as possible.
Also, my profound apologies for the modification to the site face; the move was not as seamless as I would have hoped, and many of the image files for this theme, and in the gallery, were corrupted during the course of their evacuation from my previous web host’s servers. Until such time as I have repaired them, I’ve put a clean-looking template in place of the previous one.
Update: for the purposes of further traffic shaping, new posts from kennethhynek.net will be excerpted below. Full articles can be read at the new blog.
Islamic politics
October 23, 2008
Mustafa Rizvi — who ran as the NDP candidate in Mississauga-Erindale in the last election — has been getting threatening phone calls from disgruntled Muslim voters in that riding.
His crime?
Rizvi, an insurance adjuster and a Muslim, ran against the Liberal incumbent in that riding — Omar Alghabra, also a Muslim. And Alghabra lost, by a few hundred votes, to the Conservative candidate. (Rizvi placed a distant third, evidently.)
Rizvi, then, is being accused of splitting the Islamic vote, thus costing one Muslim his electoral victory. And for this, other Muslims are now threatening him.
“I’ve been getting harassment and phone calls from angry people,” he said. “But this isn’t faith-based politics; this is a democracy.
“Everybody has a right to run anywhere in the country.”
Silly man…you only think that’s true! Where Islam is concerned, faith and politics are practically the same side of the coin.
