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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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February 13, 2017 |Trump, Islamophobia and the New McCarthyism
A purported secret document is being used by the Islamophobes, Alt-right operatives, Israel and Arab lobbyists in order to push for a presidential executive order that would designate the Muslim Brotherhood movement as a terrorist organization. In fact, successive Republican and Democratic U.S. administrations have investigated the Muslim Brotherhood movement and reached the conclusion that…
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January 29, 2017 |Trump’s War on Islam and Clash of Civilization Wrecking Crew!
In the few days since Trump took office, the new administration has re-deployed Islam at the center of its anti-terrorism campaign. Trump expressed this shift in his inauguration speech, which had the following line to frame the new administration’s relations with Islam and the Muslim world: “We will reinforce old alliances and form new ones…
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December 1, 2016 |Negotiating Alliances in the Age of Islamophobia: AJC’s Role in Anti-Muslim Discourses
What do Islamophobic figures like Daniel Pipes, Steve Emerson, Wafa Sultan and Nonie Darwish have in common? Many answers come to mind, but not the one that I am seeking. The answer is that all of them are recipients of one award or in the case of Pipes and Emerson glowing public recommendation for their…
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November 24, 2016 |American Muslims and the Specter of Fear
The election of Trump in the recent U.S. election has unleashed a wave of fear among Muslims and communities of color across the country. After my class today, a friend asked if the conditions in the country are going to become more difficult, for example, if an interment like the Japanese faced during WWII might…
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November 9, 2016 |Trump’s Victory: Intervention Ghosts, Globalization and Islamophobia!
Thousands of articles have been written and many more will be written concerning the 2016 presidential election and the bizarre nature of the contest. Under normal circumstances and had the Republican candidate been anyone other than Trump, Clinton might have been able to secure the White House for the Democrats but the opposite is also…
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August 31, 2016 |France’s Burkini Ban: the Theater of the Absurd “an Outfit Respecting Good Morals and Secularism.”
The attempt by a number of French coastal mayors to ban the burkini is a clear sign that Islamophobia has entered into the theater of the absurd. How else can we explain this new attack on Muslim women in civil society other than absurdity that is backed up by law and power? When the police…
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July 7, 2016 |Islamophobia: Israel’s Last Frontier to Rescue its Image!
With Israel’s loss of international public standing due to its never-ending occupation and violence against the Palestinians, Israel’s spokespeople and operatives in the U.S. and Europe are jumping heads-over-heels into Islamophobia to reverse the trend. At present, Israel’s propaganda machine is so intensely Islamophobic and constantly working to demonize Palestinians by resorting to every orientalist…
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