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July 12, 2015 | Daily Sabah
Gaza: The never-ending war crime
Palestine’s calendar is pierced by endless lists of traumatic and painful anniversaries. Now there is another important date that has been permanently affixed to it: the third Israeli battering of Gaza. One year has already passed since Israel’s sadistic summer assault on Gaza, which according to the U.N. Independent Commission of Inquiry’s report killed 2,251…
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July 7, 2015 | Turkey Agenda
On sectarian violence in the Muslim world
Extremist groups often site the Hadith from Sunan Abi Dawud stating, “Ummah (the community) will divide into 73 sects, all of them in hellfire except one,” as evidence for the veracity of their ideology while condemning all others who disagree or differ to death. This frame of thinking is atrocious; evidently, murderous when acted upon…
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July 6, 2015 | Daily Sabah
On Burning Churches and Lynching!
Since the murder of nine African Americans in the Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, North Carolina, at least eight different black churches in the south have been torched, with three already confirmed as an arson attack. The last one in this string was the Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church in Greeleyville, South Carolina, only…
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June 28, 2015 | Daily Sabah
Israeli war crimes and bringing an end to impunity
On June 22, 2015, and almost a year after Israel’s assault on Gaza, the U.N. Human Rights Council independent commission of inquiry issued its report concluding that “serious violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law by Israel and by Palestinian armed groups” occurred during the war. The report, like many earlier internationally…
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June 24, 2015 | Turkey Agenda
The Mirage of White Victimhood
Dylann Roof, the terrorist that attacked and murdered 9 African American churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina framed his actions in a supposed defense of White people who are constructed as victims. In a posted internet manifesto, Dylann spoke of “integration” bringing “White people down to level of brute animals” and connecting it to the failing…
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June 22, 2015 | Daily Sabah
America’s open secret: Racism and white supremacy
Racism and white supremacy are deeply rooted in America’s social, cultural, political, economic and religious structures. American society is racially stratified with economic resources and foundational relations defined and shaped by it. Indeed, the racial hierarchy was embedded in society before America became America and it has never been undone despite claims of progress coming…
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June 14, 2015 | Daily Sabah
Le Pen at Al-Azhar and Muslim French citizens!
The recent visit and official welcome by Al-Azhar to Marine Le Pen, the leader of the extreme right French National Front party, marks the lowest point in the standing of the venerable Sunni institution. At a time when Le Pen is unleashing an avalanche of xenophobic and Islamophobic attacks on disenfranchised Muslim and sub-Saharan African…
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June 8, 2015 | Daily Sabah
OIC and the plight of the Rohingya
The Rohingya join a long line of small, vulnerable minorities threatened with extinction. What makes their plight harder to accept, though, is that it is happening before our very eyes, unfolding on social media. We can speculate as to what will happen next, but we feel powerless to stop it. Worse, we appear unable to…
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June 7, 2015 | Turkey AgendaImmigration Crisis: The Collapse of the Post-Colonial State Part 5
Earlier, I discussed the role played by banks, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and elites in the global North and South in shaping the continued dependency in the post-colonial period. The next stage of this structured control and manipulation in the post-colonial state took a sharp trajectory after the end of the…
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June 3, 2015 |كلية الزيتونة ومستقبل الإسلام في أمريكا
يكثر النقاش في هذه الأيام عن حاضر المسلمين ومستقبلهم ﻻ في أمريكا فحسب بل ﻓﻲ الغرب كله ﻓﻀﻼ ﻋﻣﺎ ﻳﺣﻮﻢ في عقر دار الإسلام. فمن المقلق عند البعض الظن ﺒﺄن المسلمين يشكل خطرا داخليا وطابورا خامسا، وكذا التحديات المرتبطة ﺒسياسات الاندماج لأقلية دينية وعرقية تشمل نسبة لا بأس بها من المهاجرين وممن هم حدﻳﺜﻮ العهد…
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