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September 25, 2018 |القانون والدين والفوضى في الدول العربية
يُعد القانون في البلدان العربية المعاصرة مزيجاً من النظم الأساسية، والقوانين، واللوائح التي اعتمدت على مدى الأعوام المائة إلى المائة والخمسين الماضية، بصدد تشكيل مشروع ا القومية الحديثة. وللحديث بشكل أكثر دقة، إن الإسلام أو الشريعة هما المصدران الأساسيان اللذان تم ذكرهما كثيراً في المقالات القليلة الأولى في معظم المدونات القانونية والقوانين الأساسية في مختلف…
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September 23, 2018 |
Law, Religion, and Disorder in the Arab States
The law in the contemporary Arab states is an amalgamation of statutes, codes, and regulations put in place over the past 100-150 years in the process of forming the modern nation-state project. Often, the “Islam” or “Sharia”, to be more precise, is the primary source cited in the first few articles in almost every constitution…
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September 12, 2018 |US’s Defunding UNRWA & Starving the Palestinians into Surrender!
The decision taken by the Trump administration to de-fund or freeze $200 millions of US contribution to UNRWA, a sum that accounts for 1/3 of the financial needs for the Palestinian refugees, is an attempt to liquidate the root cause of the ongoing conflict, the 1948 Israeli ethnic cleansing of 78% of Palestine and the…
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August 28, 2018 |“Economic Hit Man” and Jackals: The Destructive Tools of Empire!
In his book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, John Perkins detailed the pernicious and destructive economic strategies deployed by Global North powers and the institutions that represent their interests against countries in the Global South. The term “economic hit man” is used to describe the role of individuals, like Perkins himself, whose assigned part…
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August 24, 2018 |Islamophobia and Structuring Post-Cold War New World Order
The shift towards Islamophobia and using the Muslim subject as the singular global strategic threat emerged towards the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Even though a case can be made that the 1979 Iranian Revolution intensified the negative representation of Islam and Muslims in the West, particularly in…
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July 19, 2018 |Özil story: Soccer, double standards and Islamophobia
Mesut Özil, the German National Team player, posted a letter on July 22, 2018 explaining his reasons for retirement from the German team and international competitions. One sentence in Özil’s letter crystalized the predicament that racial, ethnic and religious minority players face across Europe: “I am German when we win but an immigrant when we…
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July 19, 2018 |The end of Israel’s ecumenical deal and Palestinian liberation theology
By a vote of 619 to 214, a 74 percent majority of the Episcopalian Church deputies endorsed a human rights investment screen that once implemented will bring an end to the complicity in Israel’s occupation of the Palestinians. The road to the Episcopalian’s vote was long, and it took years for Israel’s occupation of the…
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July 11, 2018 |The ‘Muslim Exclusion Act’ and America’s rising xenophobia
By a vote of 5-4, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision to uphold President Donald Trump’s Muslim ban affecting five Muslim-majority countries as well as North Korea and Venezuela. Once again by issuing this decision, the Supreme Court has managed to put another stain on its already heavily tarnished record regarding cases affecting…
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June 26, 2018 |Local vs. transnational: False choices for American Muslims
Debates on how to best navigate the engagement in America’s complex and rapidly evolving political, social, cultural, religious and economic landscape are a major preoccupation for members of the diverse American Muslim community. At the core, the debates can be narrowed down to two main ideas: 1. We should focus on the rights of Muslims…
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June 13, 2018 | Daily SabahIsrael’s compounded denials
The 1967 Six-Day War anniversary is upon us once more and there is no end in sight to Israel’s unrelenting crimes against Palestinians. On June 5, 1967, Israel launched preemptive attacks that swiftly destroyed the Egyptian air force and moved into Gaza and the Sinai Desert. This was followed by a campaign in the West…
Colonialism Palestine Politics
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