You can still get cloves in some states. Can't seem to find them in the classic filterless configuration, though.

“It will not in fact produce that result because the fellah is at least four centuries behind the times, and the effendi… is dishonest, uneducated, greedy, and as un-patriotic as he is inefficient.” 5/5

“The fairer the English regime tries to be, the more arrogant the Arab becomes... The present state of affairs would necessarily tend toward the creation of an Arab Palestine, if there were an Arab people in Palestine. 4/5

“The Arabs, who are superficially clever and quick witted, worship one thing, and one thing only—power and success… The British authorities… knowing as they do the treacherous nature of the Arabs… have to watch carefully and constantly… 3/5

that it operates with little differentiation in such well-known anti-Semitic European writings as 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘡𝘪𝘰𝘯 and in remarks such as these by Chaim Weizmann to Arthur Balfour on May 30, 1918: 2/5

Amanito, the masculine version (?) of Amanita (𝘈𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘢 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢, the fly agaric mushroom)

and we are very likely in rational terms to insist on both the religious-ethnic and the socio-economic descriptions; Orientalism, however, clearly posits the Islamic category as the dominant one, and this is the main consideration about its retrograde intellectual tactics. 3/3

Does it matter more in understanding contemporary politics to know that X and Y are disadvantaged in certain very concrete ways, or that they are Muslims or Jews? This is of course a debatable question, 2/3

My brightz have lasted years! Also, Nite Ize makes some decent spoke lights

Refreshingly specific

As a hint we are reminded of "the Ramadan fast with its active nights," from which we are expected to conclude that Islam is a religion "designed for town dwellers." This is explanation in need of explanation. 3/3

Is there really such a thing as "Islamic geography," which seems to include the "planned anarchy" of Muslim cities, or is it mainly an invented subject to demonstrate a rigid theory of geographical-racial determinism? 2/3

Mary J. Bligh, Live At Pitcairn

Once he had secured the endorsement of the Duke Of Eltingville

But nowhere in the chapters on classical Islam is there an adequate preparation for the disappointments in store for us when we come to "recent times," as they are called. 2/2

Wipe hands on pants

Says something that the executive branch thinks those who were laid off are still crying at home, pining for their old jobs. Those workers are not coming back, certainly not at their original price.

There are grants and other rewards, there are organizations, there are hierarchies, there are institutes, centers, faculties, departments, all devoted to legitimizing and maintaining the authority of a handful of basic, basically unchanging ideas about Islam, the Orient, and the Arabs. 2/2