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- Obama’s Semantics
Labeling America’s “other” as a nebulous and all-encompassing “Islam” (even while professing rapprochement and respect) is a way to avoid acknowledging what does in fact unite and mobilize people across many Muslim-majority countries: overwhelming popular opposition to increasingly intrusive and violent American military, political and economic interventions in many of those countries. This opposition — [...]
- Those Damn Muslims
A Gallup poll examining Muslim integration in major European countries has shown that Muslims identify more strongly with the countries they live in than the average in the population. (more…)
- Bill Moyers Expresses His Ignorance on the Middle East
I do believe that the violence in the Middle East has roots deep in history, and in the competition of the three monotheistic faiths, each of which claims divine title to much of the same land. (more…) Oh really Mr. Moyers? The conflict is religious is it? It has nothing to do with decades of [...]
- The American ‘Melting Pot’
A city judge in Georgia has in the past eight days barred two Muslim women wearing Islamic headscarves from entering his courtroom, jailing one, and prompting an inquiry from the civil rights office at the US department of justice. (more…)
- Donald Macintyre: Joy is in Short Supply for Eid
Ironic text messages of goodwill for the great festival of Eid Al Adha – easily as central to the Muslim calendar as Christmas is in the West – became the vogue in Gaza this week. “Despite there being no salaries, the money we don’t have to give to our children, the high price of Egyptian [...]
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“People here are just watching one another and nobody is buying,” complained sheep merchant Omar Fuji. “The prices are higher because we had to pay a $100 fee to the tunneller on every sheep that came through.” Eid al-Adha, the Festival of Sacrifice celebrated by Muslims worldwide this week, is shaping up to be a [...]
- Amira Hass: Hajj in Exchange for Power
The Hamas government is preventing thousands of Muslims from leaving the Gaza Strip to go on the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca – a religious duty – on the Id al-Adha (feast of the sacrifice) holiday. What a sensational headline, what a fascinating paradox. What Israel has never dared to do – certainly not to this [...]
- Jihad Prevention Act
Jihad Prevention Act (Introduced in House) HR 6975 IH 110th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 6975 To require aliens to attest that they will not advocate installing a Sharia law system in the United States as a condition for admission, and for other purposes. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 18, 2008 Mr. TANCREDO introduced [...]
