NCIS, another USA national security propaganda show?

My long awaited critique of @NCIS_CBS episode #KillChain here: http://t.co/zasOSssyPq #pakistan #drones #CBS #NCIS #yemen #navy #usa
— Irfan Rydhan (@IrfanRydhan) January 31, 2014

I'm proud that I decided to drop watching USA Network's Covert Affairs. I usually, once I start watching a show, continue to watch it. The worst example of this was that I actually watched all episodes on DVD of Highlander: The Raven, including the special feature where the production team explained how they managed to produce the worst TV show ever.

For this reason, I've never watched NCIS. If I started, I'm worried that I'd be devoting 2 hours a day watching all the episodes I missed.

So I thank Irfan Rydhan for writing a review of a recent episode. I've written other blog posts about TV episodes featuring Muslim characters.

Ranya Tabari Idliby Interview on C-SPAN2 BookTV

Daisy Khan interviewed author Ranya Tabari Idliby on C-SPAN2's BookTV December 4, 2013. Ranya is the author of Burqas, Baseball, and Apple Pie: Being Muslim in America and The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew--Three Women Search for Understanding.

Review: Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an: Islam and the Founders by Denise Spellberg

Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an: Islam and the Founders by Denise Spellberg

Orme Wilson, director and immediate past president of The Filson Historical Society, reviewed this book for The Courier-Journal, a Louisville, Kentucky newspaper.

I have not read the book.

THE BIG HOUSE -- البيت الكبير

h/t Ebadur Rahman

Interview with Ranya Tabari Idliby, Author of Burqas, Baseball and Apple Pie: Being Muslim in America

The C-Span program After Words is broadcasting Daisy Khan's interview with Ranya Tabari Idilby beginning this Saturday, January 11.

Burqas, Baseball, and Apple Pie: Being Muslim in America by Ranya Tabari Idliby.

This is the first I've heard of the author or the book.

Update: I saw the interview and wrote some comments.

Update 2: I read her book and wrote a positive review, which surprised me.

Review: Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes & Erik M Conway

Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway. First edition, 2010, hardcover, 355 pages.

I'd had this book on my shelf for a while, but I was especially motivated to read it when I noticed that an entire chapter was devoted to contemporary attacks on Rachel Carson and the Environmental Protection Agency's decision to ban the use of the pesticide DDT in the United States in 1972.

Review: Gaza Writes Back

The Story of #Gaza by @davidcnswanson http://t.co/O7W79Ce2mW #Palestine #Books #Israel #MENA
— MyFDL (@MyFDL) January 2, 2014

David Swanson reviewed Gaza Writes Back at firedoglake.com. You can purchase Gaza Writes Back from Just World Books. I have not read the book.


Gaza Writes Back