May 9, 2012
Adam Yauch used his celebrity status to speak out against US military action in the Middle East, pointing out that it would only lead to more and more retaliation and that most people there were not terrorists [AP] Brooklyn, NY - In 1998, the Beastie Boys walked up to the VMA mics in matching utilitarian grey [...]
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March 29, 2012
Tomgram: John Feffer, Islamophobia, Obama, and the Art of Acting Muslim Posted by John Feffer at 9:24am, March 29, 2012. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: I’ll be handing you back off to Tom shortly. If you’d like to welcome him back with a donation -- which is how we keep this site afloat -- please consider [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, BarackObama, George W. Bush, iPod, Islamophobia, John Feffer, John McCain, Michael Klare, Obama, Rick Santorum, United State
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December 24, 2011
QALQILIYA (Ma’an) – Israeli forces on Saturday morning closed all the entrances to the northern West Bank village of Azzun east of Qalqiliya preventing all residents from going in or out. Locals told Ma’an a large number of troops stormed the village in the morning. The soldiers completely shut down the northern and the western [...]
Tags: Azzun, International Solidarity Movement, Israel, Israel Defense Forces, Ma'an, Mohammed, Qalqilyah, West Bank
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November 8, 2011
‘La Tunisie Vote’. (Aljazeera) By Ramzy Baroud Following Tunisia’s first fair and free elections on October 27, the Western media responded with a characteristic sense of fear and alarm. For many, it seemed that the ghost of the Islamic menace was back to haunt ‘Western values’ throughout the Arab world. The narrative employed [...]
Tags: Arab, Arab people, Arab world, Islamic Renaissance Movement, middle east, Syria, Tunisia, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali
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November 2, 2011
Iranian nuclear technicians in protective wear. Photograph: Mehdi Ghasemi/AP UK military steps up plans for Iran attack amid fresh nuclear fears British officials consider contingency options to back up a possible US action as fears mount over Tehran‘s capability By now you should be aware that this page considers and has always said [...]
Tags: Guardian, International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran, Ministry of Defence, Nuclear program of Iran, Tehran, Tomahawk, United States
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October 9, 2011
Part of the Tuba mosque after the arson attack. (Aljazeera) Targeting Tuba: The Ongoing Nakba By Georgina Reeves On Sunday night, the mosque in the small village of Tuba suffered an arson attack. Unknown agitators entered the building and set the fire, causing damage to carpets and the structure itself. Before leaving, they sprayed messages [...]
Tags: Ameer Makhoul, Arab, Arab people, David Ben-Gurion, Israel, Palestinian people, Shimon Peres, West Bank
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October 7, 2011
JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israel limited access to Jerusalem‘s al-Aqsa mosque compound on Friday for fear of violence on the Muslim weekly day of prayer, which leads directly into Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, police said. The restrictions were part of a wider lock down, under which the army closed all [...]
Tags: Al-Aqsa Mosque, Dome of the Rock, Israel, Jerusalem, Jew, Old City, West Bank, Yom Kippur
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September 23, 2011
‘Ground Zero mosque‘ opens quietly Islamic cultural centre sparked debate last year for being planned near New York’s World Trade Center site. The Islamic cultural centre drew national attention when it was embroiled in controversy last year [EPA] An Islamic cultural centre close to the site where New York’s World Trade Center once stood has opened [...]
Tags: Associated Press, Burlington Coat Factory, Islam, Manhattan, New York City, Park51, Sharif El-Gamal, World Trade Center
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September 19, 2011
France‘s burqa ban: women are ‘effectively under house arrest’ Hind Ahmas, one of two French women facing a fine for wearing the niqab in a town near Paris. Photograph: Magali Delporte for the Guardian Since France introduced its burqa ban in April there have been violent attacks on women wearing the niqab and, [...]
Tags: Belgium, France, French language, Hijab by country, Islam, Jean-François Copé, Muslim, Nicolas Sarkozy, Niqāb, Paris, People, Women, Women in Islam
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August 24, 2011
Israeli Video Games in Gaza by Alison Weir, August 24, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum He looks at the camera with bright eyes and the beginning of a smile, wearing a miniature dark blue zipper sweatshirt, the cuffs folded up a bit to make it fit. I can imagine his mother dressing [...]
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August 18, 2011
Daily Rogue State Israeli Lawlessness by STEPHEN LENDMAN on AUGUST 17, 2011 Spread it! 2Share| 5Share 0 inShare 0digg email print By Stephen Lendman* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz It begs the question why Israelis put up with lawless governance harming them as well as Palestinians. When will weeks of social injustice outrage arouse them to embrace universal equity? Why [...]
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August 13, 2011
Is Islam Compatible with Capitalism? The Middle East’s future depends on the answer. BEBA/IBERFOTO/THE IMAGE WORKS A sixteenth-century Turkish bazaar. Muslim tradition has long accepted the marketplace, though sharia constrained its efficiency. The moment you arrive at the airport in Cairo, you discover how little Egypt—the heart of Arab civilization—is governed by the rule of [...]
Tags: Avner Greif, egypt, Islam, middle east, Muslim, Qur'an, Sharia, Timur Kuran
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August 1, 2011
Tariq Ali guardian.co.uk, Sunday 31 July 2011 17.35 BST Article history I address this poem to the Muslim brothers who demonstrated in Cairo’s Tahrir Square after Friday prayers on 29 July Patience exhausted You emerged from the shadows To tell us what was forbidden and why. You spoke loudly and clearly, Each chant a whiplash: [...]
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July 31, 2011
US congressman Peter King has been holding hearings on the ‘radicalisation’ of the American Muslim community, and has refused to widen the hearings’ scope to include other, non-Muslim terrorism threats [GALLO/GETTY] The frightful mass murder in Norway on July 22, 2011 and the instant, knee-jerk reaction of a number of leading European and American news organisations – including the BBC, The [...]
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July 31, 2011
Barack Obama has not slept for a week because of worries over the US budget. Photograph: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images ( Seems life for a warmonger gets tougher by the minute, perhaps he should play with the dog. Even war criminals feel the heat and need a rest, forget about the countless numbers that have suffered [...]
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July 29, 2011
GILAD ATZMON: DE-ZIONIFICATION NOW FRIDAY, JULY 29, 2011 AT 4:12PM GILAD ATZMON “It (immigration) was a politically motivated attempt by ministers to transform the fundamental make-up and identity of this country (Britain). It was done to destroy the right of the British people to live in a society defined by a common history, religion, law, language [...]
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July 26, 2011
As the song says: You may leave here for 4 days in space But when you return, it’s the same old place The poundin’ of the drums, the pride and disgrace You can bury your dead, but don’t leave a trace Hate your next-door neighbor, but don’t forget to say grace And… [...]
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July 26, 2011
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By Mantiq al-Tayr * | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz 1. As is usually the case all of the experts on terrorism and all the Islam-hating bigots were wrong. Sometimes I am not even sure which group is the more loathsome and of course there is considerable overlap between the two. And even though Will McCants actually seems okay, he [...]
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July 25, 2011
Valley Park Middle School in Toronto offers more than just lunch in their school cafeteria – they also offer a place for Muslim students to pray. One anonymous Canadian blogger caught wind of this and wrote a post that set off a furor in the Canadian blogosphere, debating whether Canadian schools should be accommodating this [...]
Tags: Blazing Cat Fur, Flemingdon Park, Islam, Jihad Watch, Muslim, National Post, Salah, Tasha Kheiriddin, Toronto
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July 5, 2011
Editor’s Note: As the French boat makes its way to Gaza alone, the rest of the flotilla is still trying to find ways of leaving Greece. The captain of the US boat has been released from prison and the charges have been dropped. The passengers of the Canadian boat the “Tahrir” Michael Coleman and [...]
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July 5, 2011
Editor’s Note: Australian participant on the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza Michael Coleman has been arrested by Greek Police for attempting to block their pursuit of the Canadian boat the “Tahrir” as it left port. Michael and Soha, another Canadian Flotilla team member, were in two kayaks beside the “Tahrir”. As soon as the boat’s [...]
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July 4, 2011
It’s not radical Islam that worries the US — it’s independence Noam Chomsky The Guardian, February 4, 2011 “The Arab world is on fire,” al-Jazeera reported last week, while throughout the region, western allies “are quickly losing their influence”. The shock wave was set in motion by the dramatic uprising in Tunisia that drove out [...]
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An article on the Gaza position and the Flotilla
Editor’s Note: As the French boat makes its way to Gaza alone, the rest of the flotilla is still trying to find ways of leaving Greece. The captain of the US boat has been released from prison and the charges have been dropped. The passengers of the Canadian boat the “Tahrir” Michael Coleman and [...]
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