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March 29, 2016 |
Muslims are studied but not known!
My mail and emails are filled daily with hundreds of studies, academic journals, new books and articles from numerous publications focusing on Muslims. Everything about the Muslim subject is studied and parsed to the minute detail with volumes upon volumes of subsequent publications citing and re-examining what everyone had said on every topic. The volume…
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February 24, 2016 |
Palestine: Where the Disabled Are Not Spared!
The video images of Majed al-Fakhouri, a Palestinian man in al-Khalil, who is 53 years old, disabled, and bound by a wheelchair of being thrown to the ground by an Israeli soldier is sickening and alarming to say the least. Majed’s “crime” was that he saw a youngster, 13 years old girl, Palestinian Yasmin al-Zaro,…
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February 10, 2016 |
Putting Humpty Dumpty Together Again!
“Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; All the king’s horses and all the king’s men Couldn’t put Humpty together again.” The well-known nursery rhyme, “Humpty Dumpty” is set as a riddle for children with the answer being an egg falling down from a wall. Indeed, if an egg…
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February 3, 2016 |
Israel’s Grand Theft of Muslim Endowments in Jerusalem
On January 31, 2016, Israel’s right wing cabinet approved by a 15-5 vote the creation of a mixed-gender plaza to resolve the long standing dispute concerning women’s access to the Wailing Wall. The head of the Jewish Agency, Natan Sharansky claimed that the building of the new plaza will not cause any structural damage to…
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January 16, 2016 |
Islamophobia and The Three Evils of Society
Edited and expanded text of a speech given by Dr. Hatem Bazian at the Reviving the Islamic Spirit Conference, December 27th, 2015, Toronto, Canada.[i] On August 31st, 1967, Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. delivered The Three Evils of Society speech at the National Conference on New Politics, which is the most prophetic and revolutionary address…
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January 12, 2016 |
When Killing is the Only Politics!
Classical Arabic dictionary defines Siyasah, politics, as pertaining to a person assigned the responsibility “to oversee a group so as to rectify their affairs toward that which is better.” The English etymology for the word politics can be traced to Aristotle’s ta politika meaning “affairs of state” or “affairs of the cities.” Merriam Webster’s dictionary…
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December 23, 2015 |
Revisiting MLK’s speech, “The Three Evils of Society”
On August 31st, 1967, Reverend Martin Luther King delivered The Three Evils of Society speech at the National Conference on New Politics, which is the most prophetic and revolutionary address to date on the questions of militarism, poverty, and racism. “We are now experiencing the coming to the surface of a triple prong sickness” was…
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December 10, 2015 | Daily Sabah
Islamophobia is at a violent tipping point
In the past few months, DAESH unleashed on the world a series of horrendous terrorist attacks in major cities all across the globe and impacted every continent. Aside from the massive death toll, Islam and Muslims are doubly victimized – once by the actual terrorist attacks and twice by being despised as a religious group…
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November 18, 2015 | Daily Sabah
Terrorism is wrongly framed!
In the aftermath of the Paris terrorist attacks, politicians have taken to the airwaves to shape public opinion and insert a heavy dose of Islamophobia and “clash of civilizations” venom. Florida Senator Mario Rubio called the attacks “a wake-up call” and urged the U.S. to commit itself to “a civilizational war against radical Islam.” Former…
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November 12, 2015 | Daily Sabah
The clash of civilization: A racial discourse
The oft-cited clash of civilization thesis promoted by right-wing politicians, religious extremists and public figures is predicated on extending and reformulating the already discredited notions of “scientific/biological racism” into new categories based on cultural, religious, and ethnic norms – nebulous and difficult to define terms, as the concept of race itself. In the clash of…
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