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November 24, 2014 | Turkey Agenda
The ‘Terrorist’ Designation Game: A Tool to Consolidate Power and Saving Islam from Islam!
On November 15, 2014 as part of new broader initiative to combat terrorism, the United Arab Emirates government designated 82 terrorist organizations that will be subject to the newly issued anti-terrorism law. As expected, the UAE’s own Muslim Brotherhood Movement group called al-Islah was at the top of the list. The Egyptian MBM branch was…
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November 18, 2014 | Turkey Agenda
Al-Sissi’s “War On Terrorism” Or Terrorizing People Into Submission
The 28th of October 2014 Washington Post’s editorial was a most welcome development since the newspaper correctly concluded, “Mr. Sissi has instituted the most repressive regime Egypt has known in more than a half-century.” The Post editorial even went further alleging al-Sissi atrocious actions are being undertaken “in the name of defeating Islamic extremism.” Thus,…
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November 11, 2014 | Turkey Agenda
Bill Maher: When Bigotry and Racism Are Liberal!
The University of California, Berkeley invite for comedian Bill Maher to deliver the Fall 2014, Commencement speech has generated intense opposition from student groups and community organizations due to Maher’s bigoted, racist and generalized statements concerning Islam and Muslims. In response to the students’ petition and protest, the University administration released a public statement dismissing…
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November 2, 2014 | Turkey Agenda
The Balfour Declaration: Palestine’s British and Zionist Colonial Legacy
Annually, November 2 is a painful and traumatic date for Palestinians and their allies around the globe. It marks the anniversary of Britain’s shameful issuance of the Balfour Declaration. In releasing the Declaration, Britain provided the 1st “legal” document sanctioning the creation of a newcolonial project centered on Zionist aspirations for Palestine and their dream…
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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 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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