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Crisis in Islamic Education

To copy the practices of backward tribal groups in Afghanistan and Pakistan does not make sense in modern Indonesia nor does it make good Muslims, stresses Terry Lacey...

The Politics of Soccer: The Algerian-Egyptian Confrontation

In recent weeks possible candidates to inherit power from current presidents found a good opportunity to advertise their faces. Said Bouteflika, the Algerian President’s brother and his special consultant will oversee the Algerian delegation in Sudan...

Rabbi Book: Kill Violators of Jewish Law

A book published this week by a radical Jewish rabbi from the Israeli-occupied West Bank and endorsed by prominent religious right-wing figures suggests killing any non-Jew, including children and babies, who pose a threat to Israel...

Religious online call to embrace compassion

Charter for Compassion urges embracing cultural and religious diversity, shunning violence...

Reflections on Fort Hood

One of my staff members wrote in an email 'hold my breath and pray that it’s not an Arab involved' — because we know that if it is some may hold us all responsible, notes Dr. James Zogby...

Tragedy at Ft. Hood: a Catalyst for Change?

The American Muslim community have been the victims of widespread and carefully contrived anti-Muslim sentiment before and after the events of 9/11, whatever their origin. What Hasan did was murder, pure and simple. What the neo-cons and their allies have done and are doing is treason, pure and simple. Both are crimes, and both should be punished, notes Alan Sabrosky...

No dignity for Egyptians

No mechanism exists to truly hold the Egyptian regime accountable to the people. The regime is rather concerned with the powers that sustain its long-standing rule: the military; the businessmen who support the government and are, in many cases, members of it and of the NDP; and foreign allies, namely the US and Israel, notes Sara Khorshid...

Muslim Americans Brace for Backlash in the Wake of Ft Hood Tragedy

When a person who happens to be a member of an established religion, say a Christian or a Jew, commits a crime, the media refers to him as a criminal and questions his act. When, however, the one who commits the crime happens to be a Muslim, the media refers to him as a Muslim and question his faith, notes Louay Safi...

Gamal Mubarak: Egypt’s Next Unelected President

In Egypt, the 28-year rule of US-backed president Hosni Mubarak has been most notable for political intimidation of opponents, suppression of dissent, and silencing any and all who dare challenge his authority, notes Rannie Amiri...

The Rise and Rise of Turkey

One way and another, a resurgent Turkey is rewriting the rules of the power game in the Middle East, in a positive and non-confrontational manner. This is one of the few bright spots in a turbulent and highly-inflammable Middle East, says Patrick Seale...

The Aqsa Movement

Despite the iron-fist policies of unpopular Arab leaders—buttressed by imperial Western nations—the popular outbursts witnessed in the aftermath of the sacrilegious storming of the Al-Aqsa Mosque once again symbolized a very much living spirit, says Ali Jawad...

Islamophobia Strikes Media

No one knew on Thursday whether stress, fear, anger over mistreatment, mental illness or a warped understanding of his religion might have motivated Major Hasan. But there is a rush to judgment regarding not just this one Muslim but all Muslims, notes notes John Nichols...

Obama’s Middle East Failure

Obama began a test of strength with Israel over that country's policy of illegal settlements, an expansion of its occupation of the West Bank driven by extremist, right-wing settlers who are fanatical, Bible-believing cultists who think that Israel has some God-given right to that territory, notes Robert Dreyfuss...

The Case of Nick Griffin and the BBC

We need Nick Griffin to save us from looking in the mirror. It is us the collective that is complicit in genocidal crimes and institutional intolerance. We are implicated in the death of millions of brown-skinned foreigners in remote lands - as we endorse killing in the name of democracy, universalism, and ‘women’s rights’ (even as we drop bombs on women), notes Sarah Gillespie..

Mad Mayhem

A car bomb killed 91 in Pakistan while US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visits. A bomb in Baghdad killed 155 fueling Sunni-Shiite tensions. A bomb in Kabul targeting UN staff killed 12 people. All these and more were reported in one day (The Jakarta Post 29.10.09)...

US actress says Israeli-besieged Gaza children deserve better

Once a fashion model, Farrow has appeared in more than 40 films, including 13 in which she co-starred with Woody Allen, with whom she had a 12-year relationship...

Naomi Wolf takes on the hijab

Feminist Naomi Wolf is currently being excoriated by Western critics for a piece she wrote in support of the hijab. In a Sydney Morning Herald article entitled “Behind the Veil Lives a Thriving Muslim Sexuality,”..

TV series fuels Turkish-Israeli tensions

The TV series, called "Separation: Palestine In Love and In War", went on air Tuesday...

America needs 'Moore' Democracy

Have we learned anything in the 15-odd centuries since the fall of Rome? The oligarchs of Rome were poisoned by more than lead in their wine: selfishness and decadence, and disdain for common folk plebeians led to self-destruct, notes James J. Murtagh...

Pragmatic Empathy for US Enemies

A lack of empathy toward potential adversaries is as dangerous for a superpower as it is for any other country. The US should realize that even outlaws have security fears and are not just hostile to the United States because it is a relatively free country, notes Ivan Eland...