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Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon

Their home is Palestine and they cannot wait to return. But, until that day arrives, there is no need to deny them the most basic of rights and infringe upon their very dignity, notes Ramzy Baroud...

An Islamic Perspective on Interfaith Dialogue

Dialogue is not about trying to defeat others, but about understanding and learning about them. The Qur’an insists that the world’s beauty lies in its racial and religious pluralism, otherwise God would not have created it so, notes Qazi Abdul Qadeer Khamosh...

Media Should Get Islam Right

The media rarely associates terms like terrorist, fanatic and fundamentalist with any other religious group. For instance, the phrase 'Hindu fanatics' or 'Jewish terrorists' are seldom used even though in each faith there are people that do not represent the larger group, notes Hind Al-Subai Al-Idrisi...

The Modernists of Al Andalus

Today pundits who speak all too knowingly of the ancient enmity between Arab and Jew conveniently or ignorantly overlook the Convivencia, during which Muslims, Jews and Christians lived in peace and startling creativity, notes Djelloul Marbrook...

Indispensable IslamOnline Must Not Fail

The widely popular Islamic website’s success story suddenly became a terrible nightmare for hundreds of IslamOnline’s principled employees, says Ramzy Baroud...

Watching Innocent Iraqis Die

The next time CNN’s Wolf Blitzer boasts about George W. Bush’s “successful surge” in Iraq or Newsweek hails “Victory at Last,” you should think of the video released by Wikileaks.org this week showing the killing of a group of Iraqi men, including two Reuters newsmen, as they walked nonchalantly through the streets of Baghdad, says Robert Parry...

Chomsky Warns of the Threat of Fascism

Noam Chomsky, for many years the leading leftwing intellectual in the country, warned last week of signs that fascism may be coming to the United States. He invoked Germany during the Weimar Republic, and drew a parallel between it and the US, says Matthew Rothschild...

America and the Dictators: From Ngo Dinh Diem to Hamid Karzai

The Obama administration’s devolving relations with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul is also an eerie summary of relations between the Kennedy administration and South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem in Saigon nearly half a century earlier, says Alfred W. McCoy...

A Birthday Present

Obama will have to take into consideration the fears of a Naqba-injured and occupation-damaged people; to promise the realization of the Palestinians’ hope for independence within two years, to guarantee that the US will not allow ethnic cleansing...

Those We Honour and Why

In honouring those who define the values we share and those whose work we seek to emulate, Arab Americans make a statement about who we are, what we bring to this country and the way forward. This is the community’s tribute to the Spirit of Humanity, says James Zogby...

Obama’s Remainees

Closing Guantanamo does not simply mean emptying the prison cells at that naval base and throwing away the keys. It means ending the policy that has become synonymous with Guantanamo -- of incarcerating individuals without the need to prove their guilt, and without a clear and recognizable process for determining the grounds for their detention, notes Karen J. Greenberg...

Islamophobia – Now in American Children’s Textbooks?

True, the demonizing of Arabs and Muslims in America began well before the terrible tragedy of September 11, 2001 but, what is new post-9/11, is that now demonizing Muslims and Islam is not only more widespread but also considerably more mainstream and respectable. In short, Muslim-bashing has become socially acceptable in the United States, notes Abdus Sattar Ghazali...

More Than Good Intentions Needed to Reform Libya

Saif al Islam Gaddafi's slogan 'Tomorrow’s Libya' has excited young Libyans yearning for jobs, training and a greater voice in the bureaucracy, but it has no clear meaning nor any suggestion of how it might be achieved, notes Mustafa Fetouri...

US Dances Around Stance on Democracy in Egypt

The US has spent the past three decades supporting the regime of the Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, whose reign has been marked by allegations of human rights abuses and sweeping political disenfranchisement, notes Matt Bradley...

A Fatwa against Terrorism that might work

There is nothing new in Qadri's tome and that is a good thing. He is not advancing new interpretations of Islamic sources, nor is he trying to reinvent the wheel. His contribution is in showing that not only does Islam prohibit terrorism, it condemns the terrorist to hell, notes Muqtedar Khan...

Necons side with Israel against Obama

In a phrase that the neocons used in the 1980s to demonize Americans who criticized Ronald Reagan’s bloody policies in Central America, it could be said that the Washington Post’s editorial writers are 'blaming America first' – and largely taking the side of Israel, notes Robert Parry...

Yoo Besmirches Legacy of Jefferson

Yoo propounded theories that elevated Bush beyond the bounds of federal or international law. As Yoo has acknowledged, his opinions could allow the President to crush a child’s testicles to get his father to talk or to willfully annihilate a village of civilians, notes Ray McGovern...

Good Muslim, Bad Muslim

Literature produced during the colonial era, especially by orientalist scholars, depicted Muslims in a binary manner. 'Good' Muslims were those who either collaborated with the colonial enterprise or accepted the values and customs of the dominant power. The rest, the 'bad' Muslims, were those who 'resisted'. Times have changed, but the old mindsets and simplistic portrayals continue to cast a shadow over today’s intellectual, political and media debate about Islam, notes Tariq Ramadan...

Rachel Corrie and the image of Israel

When social justice activists like Rachel Corrie are branded terrorists and international human rights law becomes the enemy of the (Israeli) state - all in the name of winning the narrative battle - then it becomes absolutely clear that something is terribly wrong, notes Neve Gordon...

United States-Israel Showdown?

If President Obama plays his cards right, he could bring down the extremist government of Bibi Netanyahu. But that depends on whether Obama displays the guts and gumption necessary for a full-frontal challenge to AIPAC and its allies, notes Robert Dreyfuss...