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October 11, 2014 | Turkey Agenda
From expulsion to native genocide: Columbus’ Voyage and forging the “New World”!
In America, the 12th of October is a national day reserved for “celebrating” Christopher Columbus’ discovery of the “New World” upon arrival in 1492. The discovery narrative is still dominant in America, which precludes alternative ways to read the important events leading up to Columbus’ journey and the consequences emerging from it then and now. One…
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September 27, 2014 | Turkey Agenda
Why Israel is a strategic liability for the US?
Working in the US to expose Israel’s crimes against the Palestinians we correctly highlight the moral arguments, human rights and international law framing, which are valid ways to address the issues but at the policy makers level the strategy centers on US national interest. I take issue with the existing national interest and how it…
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September 12, 2014 | Turkey Agenda
Palestine: Toward a social justice based interfaith horizon
On April 16, 1963, Reverend Martin Luther King affirmed in a letter from Birmingham Jail in a prophetic voice “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,” and “freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” The letter was a call to action directed at clergy who, at…
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September 3, 2014 | Turkey Agenda
The ‘Randomness’ of Islamophobia at US airports
In June 2014, I traveled to Qatar to attend and present a paper at a conference focusing on Arab-US relations hosted by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, right before heading to Granada, Spain, to teach a summer course on Muslims in the West from pre-1492 to the present. The conference was well attended and…
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August 27, 2014 | Turkey Agenda
Palestine, American Muslim leadership & assimilationist strategic math
The recent debate ignited by Professor Tariq Ramadan’s letter announcing his decision not to attend the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), and Reviving the Islamic Spirit (RIS) annual conventions raised a number of critical issues, but also highlighted a growing tension that has been previously kept under control up to this point. Immediately after…
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August 26, 2014 |Hatem Bazian: Palestine and a Muslim Theology of Liberation – Part 2
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August 26, 2014 |Palestine and a Muslim Theology of Liberation – Part 1
Dr. Bazian discussed how a Muslim Theology of Liberation is an ethical and moral calling, not a search for codifying permanent power for Muslims. He believes Islam in the modern state should be located in upholding the dignity and freedom of all persons, providing a just and fair economics, preservation of the environment, celebrating human…
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August 19, 2014 | Turkey Agenda
Michael Brown and America’s structural racism
As news coverage intensifies over the supposed ‘violence’ in Ferguson’s streets, we are once again are asked to focus on the people’s response to the murder of another young black man and rather than the structural causes behind it. It is certain that we can not begin to understand the history of America without taking…
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August 12, 2014 | Turkey Agenda
Kill them all to rescue a dying colonialism
I wanted to write this article sometime ago but events and developments kept intruding and my attention taken away or stolen from the critical into the tangential. As more events unfold and the death rates in the Arab and Muslim world reach catastrophic levels and the region all up in flames. My pen can no…
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August 8, 2014 | Turkey Agenda
America’s apple pie and Gaza’s ice cream freezers
A haunting photo coming from Gaza showing the body of a dead child placed in an ice cream refrigerator as hospital morgues were overwhelmed with bodies and ran out of space due to the murderous campaign unleashed by Israel on the Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip. The stark contrast is so powerful yet symbolic…
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