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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November 18, 2015 | Daily Sabah

Terrorism is wrongly framed!

In the aftermath of the Paris terrorist attacks, politicians have taken to the airwaves to shape public opinion and insert a heavy dose of Islamophobia and “clash of civilizations” venom. Florida Senator Mario Rubio called the attacks “a wake-up call” and urged the U.S. to commit itself to “a civilizational war against radical Islam.” Former…

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August 27, 2015 | Daily Sabah

Climate change is a Muslim concern

The Oct. 18 declaration in Istanbul formulated by the International Islamic Climate Change Symposium is a significant development and a right step to build Muslim consensus on the environmental crisis. The declaration came at a time when the earth, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, witnessed the hottest month of July on record….

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August 17, 2015 | Daily Sabah

Books and reading in the Muslim world: A serious crisis

An imperative verb “Read”, it was the first word revealed in the Quran and is repeated twice in the initial few versus. Considering that the Quran, according to Muslims, is the last and final revelation to humankind, the first command points to the centrality of reading as a foundation and the path to approaching, connecting,…

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August 10, 2015 | Daily Sabah

Will AIPAC defeat Obama’s Iran deal?

The effort to win Congressional approval of Barack Obama’s Iran nuclear deal took a major hit this week when the third-ranking Senate Democrat, New York Senator Chuck Schumer, informed the White House and publicly announced his opposition to it. Senator Schumer, who is slated to lead Senate Democrats after the impending retirement of Harry Reid…

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