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May 31, 2016 | Anadolu AgencyOrientalism, Palestine and Covering Islam
Three of Edward Said’s books are as timely today as the day they were published almost 40 years ago: Orientalism (1978), The Question of Palestine (1979), and Covering Islam (1981). The three constitute Said’s trilogy that focused on literary and artistic representation in the service of empire, colonial dispossession, and the media shaping and reproducing…
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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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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 | Huffington PostTrump 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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March 2, 2016 |Trump: Bigotry’s Triumph at the Polls!
The results of Super Tuesday primaries brought the Republican Party the unthinkable: the possibility of Trump being the nominee going into the 2016 Presidential elections. While it is still too early in the contest, the writing on the wall is clear for everyone to read and no one seems able to stop Trump’s steam train. …
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February 17, 2016 |Voting is Pursuing the Collective Good in Civil Society!
As the US election cycle gets intensely underway, so will the debate on the worthiness of voting in contests that are increasingly determined by big funders and narrow special interests. Increasingly, the political process and elections outcomes are determined by the candidates’ financial resources rather than the quality of ideas he/she brings to the arena….
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