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Updates to essays:

(1) http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2015/03/if-you-cant-stand-heat-get-out-of.html

And now, a cool, level-headed contribution to the free-speech-vs.-PC debate, by Kelefa Sanneh, in this week’s New Yorker.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/10/the-hell-you-say

(2) http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2014/09/isils-caliphate-gender-aspect.html

In a You-Tube video of a militant Salafist demonstration in Bonn, posted in February of 2015, the remarkable German convert and Hass-Prediger  finishes his tirade by exhorting the onlookers:  “The Jews say the Prophet [Muhammad] left only girls.  But no!  He left men.” (He adds in Arabic:  khalaf rijâl.)

Meaning:  Biologically, the Prophet had, as a matter of historical fact, only daughters (that survived infancy);  but as a legacy, he left men.