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February 24, 2016 |Palestine: Where the Disabled Are Not Spared!
The video images of Majed al-Fakhouri, a Palestinian man in al-Khalil, who is 53 years old, disabled, and bound by a wheelchair of being thrown to the ground by an Israeli soldier is sickening and alarming to say the least. Majed’s “crime” was that he saw a youngster, 13 years old girl, Palestinian Yasmin al-Zaro,…
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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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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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February 3, 2016 |
Israel’s Grand Theft of Muslim Endowments in Jerusalem
On January 31, 2016, Israel’s right wing cabinet approved by a 15-5 vote the creation of a mixed-gender plaza to resolve the long standing dispute concerning women’s access to the Wailing Wall. The head of the Jewish Agency, Natan Sharansky claimed that the building of the new plaza will not cause any structural damage to…
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January 29, 2016 | Daily Sabah
Flint: Racism & water
Flint, Michigan is a microcosm of U.S. political and economic elites’ entanglement with structural racism and the persistent disregard for the lives, health and well-being of African Americans, people of color, working class and poor whites. The city’s residents have been surviving on the margins of society and eking out a living on limited opportunities…
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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 12, 2016 |When Killing is the Only Politics!
Classical Arabic dictionary defines Siyasah, politics, as pertaining to a person assigned the responsibility “to oversee a group so as to rectify their affairs toward that which is better.” The English etymology for the word politics can be traced to Aristotle’s ta politika meaning “affairs of state” or “affairs of the cities.” Merriam Webster’s dictionary…
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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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