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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 21, 2016 | Daily SabahRestoring Palestine: Six Divergent Visions
Palestinians’ feeling of being foreigners in their own land and unwanted, stateless refugees waiting for country after country to allow them in, grant papers and permit free movement is not something to wish upon anyone. Palestinians are capable and will continue to resist and counter Zionism at every turn no matter the obstacles; yet, 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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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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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 9, 2016 |Revisiting Al-Ghazali: Revelation and Reason!
On March 4-5, 2016, Zaytuna College hosted the Revisiting Al-Ghazali: Reason and Revelation Conference , which examined the work and contribution of one of the most influential scholars in Islamic history. Research papers and discussions revolved around a number of issues in Al-Ghazali’s works with an eye toward understanding and appreciating the unique approach present in…
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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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