[LINK] Some Friday links

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• 3 Quarks Daily's Edward Rackley blogs about the various Afrocentric Christian syncretic sects in the Bas-Congo region of the DRC.


• Michael's Bloor-Lansdowne Blog celebrates the wonderful news that the Bloor-Gladstone Library--one of my neighbourhood libraries, and just across fro the Dufferin subway station--is reopening.


• Crooked Timber blogs about how France's use of torture in the Algerian war of independence ended up degrading French public life.


• Far Outliers examines Japan's calamitous 8th century and how the Allied powers could successfully deploy colonial armies against the Axis' national armies.


• At A Fistful of Euros, Douglas Muir blogs about how Senegal is a successful democracy in addition to being Muslim. As if it was a surprise that a country could be Muslim and democratic.


• At Halfway Down the Danube, Douglas Muir sums up his Senegal experiences.
  
• Dave Brockington at Lawyers, Guns and Money discusses the stupidity of the BNP's denouncing immigrants because they don't visit the countryside as much as non-immigrants.


• Marginal Revolution presents the idea of whether or not Japan should do away with cash.


• Slap Upside the Head reveals that the first Conservative to attend Edmonton's Pride parade was mocking the event on Twitter. Oh, Alberta.
  
• Strange Maps examines a tattoo that's a map of Maine's Portland and a map of the North Atlantic by travel time.
  
• Torontoist reviews the new ethnic cuisine food carts and is pleased.


• Window on Eurasia reports that the ethnic republics, particularly Tatarstan and Bashkortostan, are clinging to their claims of sovereignty.