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June 29, 2016 |Bosnian Genocide and Islamophobia: Marking and Unmarking History
History is an open-ended book, constantly edited and re-edited by multiple authors and divergent interests. As academics, we are trained to examine history from multiple vantage points and pursue all available sources before a conclusive judgement is reached on a given topic or issue. In this sense, history presents the ultimate challenge since the engagement…
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June 26, 2016 |‘Confronting Fear’ and Taking Stock of Islamophobia in the US
“Armed anti-Muslim demonstrations” and “Muslim-Free Business” were the two new phenomena documented in a report, “Confronting Fear: Islamophobia and its Impact in the United States,” released to the public jointly by the Council on American Islamic Relations and the UC Berkeley Center for Race and Gender’s Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project. The most prominent armed…
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June 16, 2016 |Islam is Responsible Mantra
The blame Islam mantra, a favorite pastime for the media and political talking heads, got a new lease on life after the horrific attack at the Pulse Club in Orlando, Florida. Immediately after news of the attack spread, media talking heads and political pundits began to pontificate on Islam’s supposed responsibility and the homophobic nature…
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May 25, 2016 |Targeting Chinese-Americans is an Old Ploy!
In December 1999, a grand jury charged Wen Ho Lee, a Taiwanese -American scientist, with espionage and passing secrets to the Chinese government about the U.S. nuclear W88 program. From the charges and the media frenzy generated by it, one would have expected that the government had a mountain of evidence against this very accomplished scientist….
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May 6, 2016 |Islamophobia and Women’s Hijab in Public Space!
Take the case of seven Muslim women in Hijab in Southern California that were escorted out of a restaurant by police officers for supposedly over-staying the 45-minute limit in the eatery. The seven Muslim women are suing Urth Caffe in Laguna Beach because of this action since they felt targeted due to a number of…
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April 12, 2016 |CVE: Civilizational Rehab Programs for Muslims
The end of the Cold War witnessed a shift away from the typical Russian villain and into the Muslim as the threat to Western civilization that must be confronted at all costs. While the Muslim villain has been present in Western imaginary for quite a long time, the contemporary reincarnation of this historically demonized and…
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April 6, 2016 |Israel and BDS: Assassinating an idea?
Israel’s attempt at assassinating the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction idea qualified to be included in the theater of the absurd; if it was not a very serious threat by a militaristic state that is trigger happy. At a March 28, 2016, conference held in Jerusalem, current Israeli Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz brazenly called for the…
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March 30, 2016 |Islamophobia and the Ballot Box!
American negative attitudes toward Muslims is at an all-time high and the upward trend will continue unabated for the foreseeable future. More alarming is the fact that Islamophobia has met the ballot box, and politicians in the U.S. and Europe have found an easy path to seats of power by creating and riding a Muslim…
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March 29, 2016 |Muslims are studied but not known!
My mail and emails are filled daily with hundreds of studies, academic journals, new books and articles from numerous publications focusing on Muslims. Everything about the Muslim subject is studied and parsed to the minute detail with volumes upon volumes of subsequent publications citing and re-examining what everyone had said on every topic. The volume…
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March 15, 2016 |US Presidential Election: the Pandering for Israel Festival!
On March 9, 2016 CNN hosted yet another Republican debate which witnessed the candidates outdueling each other in who is in support of Israel and is ready to embrace their agenda. Pandering to Israeli supporters is a full time job for politicians in the U.S., even more so during the presidential elections every four years…
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