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This is the posting number 02 in the Gorilla’s Guides series of guides to Islam for westerners. It deals with Islam’s defining doctrine: Tawhid.

This is part 01 of a multi-part series providing a very basic introduction to Islam aimed at westerners.

Announcing a series of articles to be posted on The Seminal about Islam and Muslims. The articles are being written by Gorilla’s Guides team members.

Just Say Now launched the Campus Challenge yesterday, with Students For Sensible Drug Policy chapters competing to see which one can gather the most signatures for the petition asking President Obama to end the war on marijuana.  The first chapter to reach 50 signatures gets 50 Just Say Now stickers and 50 Just Say Now [...]

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Marcy Wheeler has written about the power of inflection points. David Dayen has talked about FDL’s growing power in the news and information universe. And Jane has laid down the marker, pointing out that at the end of the day, without independent funding sources you can’t have a strong independent progressive movement. As a founder of The Seminal, where I’m proud to serve up a unique mix of quality political thought by regular authors and diarists members alike, I’d like to talk about community.

At its heart, I believe the power of the progressive movement to change the direction of this country rests on how well we can connect people together.

I was going through the footage released Thursday at the UN by culturesofresistance.org, taking screen shots of important events, when I noticed a series of what sound like 9mm shots, minutes after the vessel had capitulated.

As you may know, I’ve been the Brave New Foundation / The Seminal Afghanistan blog fellow for the past several months. I’ve been absolutely thrilled to have a chance to get paid to write about this issue. But like all good things, this fellowship has an end, and luckily the end of this fellowship has been triggered by a similarly exciting opportunity: I’ve just taken a position with Brave New Foundation as a political associate to work full-time on the Rethink Afghanistan campaign.

Howdy folks, some of you may know me from hanging around FDL for a while under the name finifinito. Some may remember me as Donita Sparks’ technician for her The Spin I’m In weekly columns on FDL from July of 2006 until last summer. Others may know me from DailyKos, Blue Indiana, The Roots Project, the 2008 Dodd Squad or from other places online.

Hello, people!

I’m really happy to be a new addition to the crew at The Seminal. As you’ll quickly find out, I am obsessed with nonviolence and with U.S. foreign policy–two great tastes that taste weird together. Right now I’m focused on the Afghanistan war and related issues. When I’m not writing for The Seminal, you can usually find me hammering away at Return Good for Evil, where I write about current events from the perspective of Christian nonviolence.