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January 13, 2017 |Islam’s Metaphysical Economy: “Trade Based on Contentment”
In a number of verses, the Qur’an uses the term, “trade based or established on contentment of the parties involved in the transaction.” The term “contentment” appears in various places in the Qur’an and overall imparts a positive outlook. Here, I am interested in the specific framing and association of trade and contentment in the…
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January 5, 2017 |Islam Vs. Islam: What is the way forward?
Any observer of unfolding events in the Muslim world will have to conclude that a major conflict is afoot, pitting one interpretation of Islam against another with each claiming to “defend” the true tradition. The intensity of the conflict is getting bloodier by the day and no end is in sight to this calamitous period….
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January 3, 2017 |Obama’s Abstention: A Positive Step But Too Little Too Late!
The U.S.’s abstention on U.N. Security Council Resolution 2334 was a major surprise coming in the waning days of President Obama’s administration. Just a day earlier, the U.N. Security Council’s process was brought to a screeching halt after news of President Abdel Fattah Al-Sissi withdrawing Egypt’s own resolution following a phone conversation with President-elect Trump,…
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December 22, 2016 |Trump’s Appointment of David Friedman is the Official End of Oslo
Trump’s appointment of David M. Friedman as the new ambassador to Israel brings an end to 70 years of U.S. official policy on Palestine centered on U.N. resolutions 181, 242 and 338 with a two-state solution as the final outcome. Official policy or not, it must be made clear that, in reality, successive U.S. administrations…
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December 13, 2016 |Dismembering the Ottomans and Colonizing Palestine
The Zionist colonizing project in Palestine was carried out over a long period and had various stages to it but it could not have been possible without the involvement of Great Britain, France and the United States at a later point. Many books, articles and materials relating to Palestine tend to begin the Palestinian dispossession…
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December 1, 2016 |Negotiating Alliances in the Age of Islamophobia: AJC’s Role in Anti-Muslim Discourses
What do Islamophobic figures like Daniel Pipes, Steve Emerson, Wafa Sultan and Nonie Darwish have in common? Many answers come to mind, but not the one that I am seeking. The answer is that all of them are recipients of one award or in the case of Pipes and Emerson glowing public recommendation for their…
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November 24, 2016 |American Muslims and the Specter of Fear
The election of Trump in the recent U.S. election has unleashed a wave of fear among Muslims and communities of color across the country. After my class today, a friend asked if the conditions in the country are going to become more difficult, for example, if an interment like the Japanese faced during WWII might…
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November 16, 2016 |Trump and the Collapse of Neoliberal Economic Order!
The string of right-wing political parties gaining the upper hand in elections across Europe and now joined by Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. election points to a much bigger phenomenon: the collapse of the neoliberal economic and political order. Consequently, focusing on each election outcome across Europe and the U.S. misses the overall global…
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November 9, 2016 |Trump’s Victory: Intervention Ghosts, Globalization and Islamophobia!
Thousands of articles have been written and many more will be written concerning the 2016 presidential election and the bizarre nature of the contest. Under normal circumstances and had the Republican candidate been anyone other than Trump, Clinton might have been able to secure the White House for the Democrats but the opposite is also…
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November 2, 2016 |Trumpism: Racist Eggs and Fascist Omelets
Over the past year and a half, Trump has managed to awaken anew America’s racists, a phenomenon that will be to stay around past the November elections, and the impacts will be far reaching and complex. Racists have emerged out of the woodworks and from deep down in cellars due to a presidential candidate that…
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