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February 16, 2015 | Daily Sabah
Designer babies or playing God?
On Feb. 3, 2015 the British parliament voted to permit a new and highly controversial experimental medical procedure allowing genetic material from three individuals – two women and a man – for the “creation” of a healthy baby. Immediately after the story broke a number of ethical concerns emerged and the slippery slope that the…
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February 16, 2015 | Al JazeeraWhen Islamophobia turns deadly
“Vaccinate” against Sharia; demands to “publicly announce allegiance to America and our laws”; and Islam “is a cancer in our nation that needs to be cut out” are a few recent statements by US political leaders pointing to the level of toxicity and bigotry directed at Muslims in the country. As American Muslims mourn the loss of…
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February 9, 2015 | Daily Sabah
‘President’ Netanyahu addressing ‘America’s Knesset’
U.S. House Speaker John Boehner’s invitation to ‘President’ Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress comes at a critical period as Republicans have taken over both the House of Representatives and the Senate and are determined to reverse almost every law adopted during Barack Obama’s presidency. From immigration and healthcare to financial oversight,…
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February 7, 2015 | Al JazeeraFighting for Palestine
“After 40 years, my time in the US has come to an end.” This was the opening line of Professor Sami Al-Arian’s letter to supporters and the Muslim American community as he was finally deported from the United States on February 5, 2015. Al-Arian’s deportation brings an end to a painful and torturous episode in…
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February 5, 2015 | Turkey Agenda
Black History Month & Dismantling Whiteness in ‘the Shining City Upon a Hill’
A ‘shining city upon a hill’ is one of the most enduring metaphors for America’s self-constructed image of itself in the world, pillar in identify formation and the crafting of larger than life purpose religiously laden with inescapable inferences. In a Farewell Address delivered on January 11th, 1989, the late U.S. President Ronald Reagan framed…
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February 1, 2015 | Daily Sabah
A racial moment: Reflections on race, racism and resistance
February is the start of another Black History Month; an annual occurrence started first by historian Carter G. Woodson in 1926 as a one week celebration of African American contributions to the U.S., which then grew in 1976 to a full month. Symbolically appropriate, February is the shortest month of the years. What started in…
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January 28, 2015 | Turkey Agenda
‘Interfaith’ Under Occupation is Normalization, Not Solidarity!
Recently a firestorm has taken the US based Palestine solidarity movement because of the Shalom Hartman Institute’s Muslim Leadership Initiative(MLI), as a second group of young American Muslim participants finished a two week fully sponsored visit to participate in an ‘interfaith’ program. The controversy is connected to Palestinian’s civil society call for Boycott, Divestment and…
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January 26, 2015 | Daily Sabah
Constructive chaos and diplomacy by other means!
Hundred years removed from World War I and alleged plans to birth a peaceful world, we are back where we started. As death, destruction and massive destabilization is witnessed in the Arab and Muslim worlds and managed by major powers past and present with handpicked local allies. At World War I’s end the remnants of…
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January 25, 2015 | Turkey Agenda
“No-Go Zones” & No-Intelligence, An Islamophobia Prerequisite
The recent Islamophobic absurdity comes to us courtesy of Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, who claimed in a London speech delivered at the Henry Jackson Society, a British think tank, that Muslims establish “no-go zones” outside civic control such as the case in Birmingham. Actually, Jindal’s Islamophobic ignorant statements are not original. Steven Emerson was the…
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January 22, 2015 | Daily Sabah
Ahmed Merabet and Charlie Hebdo’s new cover: at whom are we poking fun?
In the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo murders, Ahmed Merabet’s brother Malek correctly declared: “My brother was Muslim and he was killed by two terrorists, by two false Muslims. … Islam is a religion of peace and love. As far as my brother’s death is concerned, it was a waste. He was very proud of…
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