Saudis make up 41% of foreign fighters in Iraq by Ian Black

More than 40% of the foreign fighters who entered Iraq to join the insurgency in the past year were citizens of Saudi Arabia, America’s key partner in the Middle East, according to detailed information seized from a camp used by them. Documents and computers found by the US army at Sinjar, on the Iraqi-Syrian border, revealed that the other single largest group came from Libya, which is now being rehabilitated as a reliable western ally.

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Agnostics for Jesus: Why My Kids Won’t Be Seeing The Golden Compass. Yet.

I made the painful decision not to raise my children in church, as I had so thoroughly been, because I simply don’t buy the theology nor much of black religious culture. Imagine how I’ve seethed to learn that someone, I’m not sure who, has been indoctrinating my six-year-old with fundamentalist Christianity. Quite purposefully, given how often short-attention-span boy brings it up. From nowhere, he started talking about God and how when people die they “go up in the sky and make cookies with Jesus.” He’s so smug and zealous when he says it, I want to shake him. But I don’t disabuse him of the notion. That would only confuse him, make him sad, and most of all, make him intransigent in his “belief.” If God makes him believe that there’s justice and retribution in the world, when so often there isn’t, fine. He’s only six. I’ve got time. In the meantime, God often comes in quite handy.

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