…and pisses off a vexed managing director in the process.

In a story last month on this site, I commented on the wildly inappropriate use of name, slogan, and imagery for a steel wool product sold in Lebanon called “Negro Steel Wool.” After my initial repugnant shock surrounding the no-nonesense marketing of a …product, I calmed down for a second and decided to do some investigative bloggerist work, which included online searches and correspondences, to uncover the answer to my queries.
The Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee has written the German ambassador in the US asking for an investigation into a brutal and bloody anti-Muslim hate crime that occurred last week. The victim, 31-year-old Marwa al-Sherbini, who was three months pregnant, was stabbed to death in court by the man she sued for calling her a terrorist. She [...]