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March 9, 2015 | Daily Sabah
Zaytuna College: An academic address for Muslims in America
March 4, 2015, stands as a historic date for American Muslims, as the WASC Senior College and University Commission granted initial accreditation to Zaytuna College, thus becoming the first Muslim liberal arts college to be accredited in the United States. The commission’s letter commended the “institution’s achievements” and praised Zaytuna leadership for “implementing a variety…
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March 5, 2015 | Turkey Agenda
Netanyahu’s Speech: A Theater of the Absurd
Netanyahu’s speech on March 3, 2015 to a joint Congressional Session was a frontal assault on President Obama’s Iran policy. The speech was a direct attempt at derailing the on-going negotiations and the desire to prevent Obama and the US from signing a nuclear deal with Iran. According to the Prime Minister such a deal…
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March 1, 2015 | Daily Sabah
Netanyahu and eroding Israel’s standing in America
Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me,” goes a well-known American saying and is an apt description for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s attempt at selling another war in the Middle East, a push for a military attack on Iran. Netanyahu’s visit and planned speech to a joint session of…
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February 28, 2015 | Turkey Agenda
Islamophobia Network: The Fringe Dominating the Center
Clearly, the recent events in Europe, U.S. and the Muslim World have brought renewed attention to Islam and the status of Muslim citizens and immigrants in the West. For some, the idea of Islam and the West are an odd coupling that don’t belong to the same category and are structurally set on a constant…
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February 16, 2015 | Turkey Agenda
North Carolina , Paris, Norway & Reinforcing Extremes
The attacks on Charlie Hebdo on Jan. 7th, 2015 and the murder of Deah Barakat, his wife, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, and her sister Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha in North Carolina point to extremists capturing and shaping the global narrative. What is occurring is a process by which the actions and rhetoric of extremists from one side…
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February 9, 2015 | Daily Sabah
‘President’ Netanyahu addressing ‘America’s Knesset’
U.S. House Speaker John Boehner’s invitation to ‘President’ Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress comes at a critical period as Republicans have taken over both the House of Representatives and the Senate and are determined to reverse almost every law adopted during Barack Obama’s presidency. From immigration and healthcare to financial oversight,…
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February 5, 2015 | Turkey Agenda
Black History Month & Dismantling Whiteness in ‘the Shining City Upon a Hill’
A ‘shining city upon a hill’ is one of the most enduring metaphors for America’s self-constructed image of itself in the world, pillar in identify formation and the crafting of larger than life purpose religiously laden with inescapable inferences. In a Farewell Address delivered on January 11th, 1989, the late U.S. President Ronald Reagan framed…
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February 1, 2015 | Daily Sabah
A racial moment: Reflections on race, racism and resistance
February is the start of another Black History Month; an annual occurrence started first by historian Carter G. Woodson in 1926 as a one week celebration of African American contributions to the U.S., which then grew in 1976 to a full month. Symbolically appropriate, February is the shortest month of the years. What started in…
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January 28, 2015 | Turkey Agenda
‘Interfaith’ Under Occupation is Normalization, Not Solidarity!
Recently a firestorm has taken the US based Palestine solidarity movement because of the Shalom Hartman Institute’s Muslim Leadership Initiative(MLI), as a second group of young American Muslim participants finished a two week fully sponsored visit to participate in an ‘interfaith’ program. The controversy is connected to Palestinian’s civil society call for Boycott, Divestment and…
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January 26, 2015 | Daily Sabah
Constructive chaos and diplomacy by other means!
Hundred years removed from World War I and alleged plans to birth a peaceful world, we are back where we started. As death, destruction and massive destabilization is witnessed in the Arab and Muslim worlds and managed by major powers past and present with handpicked local allies. At World War I’s end the remnants of…
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