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March 15, 2016 | Huffington Post
Trump and the Islamophobia Imaginary
“I think Islam hates us,” was Donald Trump’s response to Anderson Cooper’s question to the candidate if “Islam is at war with the West.” Trump added, “But there is a tremendous hatred. And we have to be very vigilant. We have to be very careful, and we cannot allow people coming into this country who…
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February 10, 2016 |
Putting Humpty Dumpty Together Again!
“Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; All the king’s horses and all the king’s men Couldn’t put Humpty together again.” The well-known nursery rhyme, “Humpty Dumpty” is set as a riddle for children with the answer being an egg falling down from a wall. Indeed, if an egg…
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January 21, 2016 | Daily Sabah
America is becoming more Islamophobic!
The Aug. 10, 2010 Time Magazine cover posed the question to the readers, “Is America Islamophobic?” set in bold letters in the middle right above an American flag filled Islamic crescent and a star. The occasion for the cover was the impending 2010 mid-term elections and the national firestorm generated by the proposed Park51 Islamic…
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January 16, 2016 |
Islamophobia and The Three Evils of Society
Edited and expanded text of a speech given by Dr. Hatem Bazian at the Reviving the Islamic Spirit Conference, December 27th, 2015, Toronto, Canada.[i] On August 31st, 1967, Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. delivered The Three Evils of Society speech at the National Conference on New Politics, which is the most prophetic and revolutionary address…
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January 6, 2016 |
Muslims in America: “Integration” through securitization
Jimmy Makino enlisted in the U.S. Army and joined the famed 442nd Regimental Combat Team, the most decorated fighting unit in the history of the U.S. Military. Makino was born in 1921 in Los Angeles and as a Japanese American was interned at the Gila River Relocation Center in mid1940s Arizona. The U.S. Government interned…
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December 31, 2015 |
Islamophobia: Media Coverage is a Symptom Not a Cause!
Islamophobia, an intensifying crisis, is mistakenly approached by many and symptoms are taken for the real causes. The incorrect analysis then, are used in constructing faulty responses that waste time and badly needed resources. Pointing this obvious shortcoming in analyzing the problem does not mean that the symptoms are not important or significant on their…
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December 23, 2015 |
The Islamophobia Industry and the Demonization of Palestine: Implications for American Studies
“I do maintain that pro-Israel groups in the United States are the primary funders, producers, organizers, and distributors of Islamophobic content, which is dominating political and public discourses in Western societies.” Download the PDF file .
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December 23, 2015 |
Revisiting MLK’s speech, “The Three Evils of Society”
On August 31st, 1967, Reverend Martin Luther King delivered The Three Evils of Society speech at the National Conference on New Politics, which is the most prophetic and revolutionary address to date on the questions of militarism, poverty, and racism. “We are now experiencing the coming to the surface of a triple prong sickness” was…
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December 16, 2015 |
Muslims Are Civil Society’s Prisoners!
Prisons are institutions structured and built to maximize control and exercise absolute domination over the incarcerated population. Society’s primary and professed approach to prisoners is centered on a rehabilitation model in which the individual is locked up for a period of time before being allowed back into cities and towns to mix with the “normal”…
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December 10, 2015 | Daily Sabah
Islamophobia is at a violent tipping point
In the past few months, DAESH unleashed on the world a series of horrendous terrorist attacks in major cities all across the globe and impacted every continent. Aside from the massive death toll, Islam and Muslims are doubly victimized – once by the actual terrorist attacks and twice by being despised as a religious group…
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