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August 2, 2015 | Daily Sabah
Israeli racist settlers, burning toddlers and ‘price tag’
A year ago, a 16-year-old Palestinian boy, Mohammed Abu Khdeir, was burned alive by Israeli terrorists in Jerusalem in a “price tag” revenge killing. The horrific burning of an 18-month-old toddler, Ali Saad Dawabsheh, due to an arson attack by racist settlers on the family home in the village of Duma, marks Abu Khdeir’s one…
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July 19, 2015 | Daily Sabah
Netanyahu’s Congress and Iran’s nuclear deal
The Iran-P5+1 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action nuclear agreement is a major breakthrough in international diplomacy and points to a hopeful outcome for a region that has become accustomed to disappointment and chaos. After three years of long, intense multiple negotiation sessions, the concluded agreement provides for a pathway to resolve issues related to Iranian…
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July 12, 2015 | Daily Sabah
Gaza: The never-ending war crime
Palestine’s calendar is pierced by endless lists of traumatic and painful anniversaries. Now there is another important date that has been permanently affixed to it: the third Israeli battering of Gaza. One year has already passed since Israel’s sadistic summer assault on Gaza, which according to the U.N. Independent Commission of Inquiry’s report killed 2,251…
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July 7, 2015 | Turkey Agenda
On sectarian violence in the Muslim world
Extremist groups often site the Hadith from Sunan Abi Dawud stating, “Ummah (the community) will divide into 73 sects, all of them in hellfire except one,” as evidence for the veracity of their ideology while condemning all others who disagree or differ to death. This frame of thinking is atrocious; evidently, murderous when acted upon…
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June 28, 2015 | Daily Sabah
Israeli war crimes and bringing an end to impunity
On June 22, 2015, and almost a year after Israel’s assault on Gaza, the U.N. Human Rights Council independent commission of inquiry issued its report concluding that “serious violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law by Israel and by Palestinian armed groups” occurred during the war. The report, like many earlier internationally…
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June 14, 2015 | Daily Sabah
Le Pen at Al-Azhar and Muslim French citizens!
The recent visit and official welcome by Al-Azhar to Marine Le Pen, the leader of the extreme right French National Front party, marks the lowest point in the standing of the venerable Sunni institution. At a time when Le Pen is unleashing an avalanche of xenophobic and Islamophobic attacks on disenfranchised Muslim and sub-Saharan African…
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April 28, 2015 | Daily Sabah
The Muslim question
Half of knowledge is contained in the question, is an important and well-known saying in Arabic. Taking this as a starting point and reflecting upon the current global discourse that is totally focused on the “Muslim question” with multiple research projects, intelligence programs and policy debates on how best to answer the unsolvable riddle of…
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March 29, 2015 | Daily Sabah
Sunni Islamic authority between the text and context
The ongoing chaos in many parts of the Muslim world can, in part, be traced to the collapse of Sunni Islamic authority and the emergence of various groupings claiming to fill the vacuum. While all agree that the collapse is a reality, however, dating the collapse is as difficult as the attempts to fill it….
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March 27, 2015 | Turkey Agenda
How does it feel to be a Muslim?
Events in the Arab and Muslim world direct me again back to W.E.B. Du Bois and the pressing question in his book, The Souls of Black Folk– how does it feel to be a problem? The question posed by Du Bois in relations to African Americans and the problem of race in America has not…
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March 20, 2015 | Turkey Agenda
Netanyahu Wins Elections, Israel Loses Creditability
Results from Israeli elections indicate a victory for Benjamin Netanyahu and the right wing Likud party. The early announcement after 99.5% of the ballots were counted showed Netanyahu’s Likud wining 29-30 seats, the Zionist Union in second place with 24 and the United Arab List in third place and 13 seats. Polling data three days…
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