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April 15, 2018 |Professor Tariq Ramadan and France’s Islamophobia
Professor Tariq Ramadan’s case and the solitary confinement he faces in a French prison sheds some light on the differentiated treatment Muslim subjects receive in the legal system of the Western states. In this article, I am not defending or making any arguments for the charges levied against professor Ramadan – they are serious and…
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April 8, 2018 |Trump’s White House, an Islamophobes’ Den!
While growing up, reading the adventures of Ali Baba provided steady stimuli for my imagination and a unique conduit to contemplate virtue, chivalry, and criterion to ascertain right from wrong. The story of Ali Baba and the forty thieves is still fresh in my mind as if I had just read it yesterday. Comparatively speaking,…
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March 22, 2018 |Palestine and the First Amendment in the US: A Victory for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions in Arizona
On Friday, March 17, I reached an agreement with the Arizona State University (ASU), the Arizona Board of Regents, and Arizona Attorney General that will allow a speaking event focusing on BDS to take place on April 3, 2018 on campus. The agreement is a victory for “the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement since…
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February 20, 2018 |
Israel: Brokering to shatter a broken region!
A recent visit to Qatar by attorney Alan Dershowitz, Zionist Organization of America President Mort Klein and Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee is part of a campaign by American Zionist leaders and their supporters to fortify Israel’s standing in the region in the most difficult period faced by the Arab and Muslim world. We can’t…
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October 2, 2017 |Humanizing the human is dehumanizing! Preforming Muslimness
The proclivity of governments and civil society institutions across the globe to engage the Muslim subject has created a set of discourses that seek to humanize the Muslim in the face of Islamophobia and rising tide of bigotry. While the discourses were produced by diverse forces and interests, the running thread is nevertheless rooted in…
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May 3, 2017 |Is Balancing Freedom of Expression and Public Interest Possible?
The current debate engulfing the University of California at Berkeley, the United States and the world as a whole is not unique or new, and it is as old as the human experience itself. Certainly, free speech and Berkeley will forever be connected. The 1960s’ Free Speech Movement was born on campus, and has shaped…
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April 21, 2017 |Kashmir: The Forgotten Cause!
The image of Farooq Ahmad Dar, a Kashmiri shawl weaver, bound as a human shield on the bumper of an Indian military jeep is an atrocious display of an army that has become well-accustomed to human rights violations. On April 9, Mr. Dar was detained for no cause whatsoever while on his way to a…
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March 23, 2017 |Othering Islam and Muslims in America
Since its founding, the United States of America has constantly struggled to define its identity and to classify who belongs and who are the ostracized. From the first days of the republic, African Americans and Native Americans were not part of “We the People” and were denied full membership in the newly formed society, while…
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March 14, 2017 |On Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and Fictitious Alliances – Muslims and Jews in America – what is the way forward?
The complex and often contentious relationship between American Jews and Muslims witnessed two momentous events that produced divergent results and emotions. On the one hand, anti-Semitic attacks on a Jewish cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri, brought about a rapid $120,000 online fundraising drive in the Muslim community and hundreds of volunteers to repair damage to…
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March 2, 2017 |Titanic Shifts: The Muslim Ban, Burning Mosques and Islamophobia
Trump’s administration is issuing yet another Muslim travel ban targeting seven majority Muslim countries on the basis of religious identity. Don’t let the White House press statement fool you, it is a Muslim ban, no matter what the spin doctors say. The factually challenged President and the administration’s alternative-facts brigade maintain that this is not…
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