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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 18, 2016 |
Could Trump Win the White House?
The Republican Party primaries are slowly winding down with Donald Trump being the clear presumptive nominee. Certainly, the Republican establishment is trying to find a way to thwart the possibility of a Trump nomination, nevertheless all indications point to Donald at the top of the ticket in the general election . Assuming the clear evidence of…
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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 28, 2016 |
FDD congressional testimony: McCarthyism, Islamophobia driving foreign policy
At the April 19 hearing before the House Foreign Affairs Committee; the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade as well as the Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa, the testimony from Jonathan Schanzer, the vice president of the Research Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), was a spectacle that qualified as theater of the…
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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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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 | 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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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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