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Indian Muslims Held Special Prayers and Condolence Meetings for the Victims of Mumbai Terror Attacks

Friday is the holy day for Muslims and this Friday after Thanksgiving was a day of sadness for Muslim Indian-Americans. Many imams (prayer leaders) in the New York and New Jersey areas condemned this heinous terror attack against the civilians in Mumbai, India in their sermons. According to media reports more than 150 civilians were killed and hundreds more wounded in the well coordinated attacks by well trained militant terrorists. ..

The Mumbai Attacks - Al Qaeda, Pakistani Proxies or Hindutva Backlash?

Given the nature of the attacks - coordinated across several targets simultaneously and using grenades and heavy machine guns as well as assault rifiles, the finger of suspicion was naturally first pointed at Al Qaeda by Western media. More serious conservative analysts are following Indian officials and are blaming Kashmir-related groups like the Lashkar e-Taiba, who were instrumental in carrying out bomb attacks in Mumbai in July 2006 and, very unlike the US right’s response in 2006 ..

This is a cowardice attack on our nation

The barbaric attacks on luxury hotels, train station and eateries in the financial capital of India- Mumbai which claimed innocent lives on 26 – 27 November is an attack on our nation. It is a crises situation in our country and we all need to stand bravely united, said Maulana Badruddin Ajmal in a his press statement today. Maulana Ajmal, president of Assam United Democratic Front (AUDF) and Markazul Ma’arif (NGO) expressed his anguish over the cowardice terror attacks and cautioned ..

Mumbai and India Under Attack

Our worst fears have come true. It is clear that Mossad is involved in the whole affair. An entire city has been attacked by Mossad and probably units of mercenaries. It is not possible for one single organization to plan and execute such a sophisticated operation. It is clear that this operation was backed by communal forces from within the Indian State. The Home Minister Shivraj Patil should resign. The RSS-BJP-VHP-Bajrang Dal should be banned. Advani and others oug..

Antony Loewenstein on blogging in rerpressive regimes

The bloggers I met with have very popular sites within their own country. Part of my job as a journalist is to talk with other journalists and tell them they ought to be paying more attention to these voices. It doesn’t mean that they will, but it’s likely these people will have an effect. During the Olympics, over Tibet, bloggers on both sides were shouting across each other. For one thing, language is a key problem. On the positive side, newspapers ran what Arab bloggers thought abou..

’Lives at risk’ from Gaza fuel cuts

Patients at the largest hospital in the Gaza Strip could die if Israel continues to prevent fuel and essential supplies to the territory, doctors have told Al Jazeera...

The Hijabi Monologues

I’m a member of a group called BuSSy, which aims to raise awareness of women’s issues in Egypt. Every year, we put on a play which we call “the Egyptian version of the Vagina Monologues:” real stories written by real women...

New DCI report: increased settler attacks against children

Today, Defence for Children International–Palestine Section (DCI/PS) released a report that documents the troubling extent of settler attacks perpetrated against Palestinian children in the Occupied Territory...

Obama, Middle East and the Freedom Agenda

Jackson Diehl in the Washington Post predicted the Obama administration will abandon Bush’s freedom agenda and democracy promotion in the Middle East, especially after we’ve seen its end results in the Palestinian elections. I think Mr. Diehle is right in his assesment of the incoming Obama administration. ..

Alternative theories in globalization

Anthony McGrew (2008) described globalization in terms of the massive advances in global communications, transport and informatics technologies over the past several decades, which have created worldwide interconnectedness causing transnational spread of ideas, cultures and information in an accelerating pace. The result is a world that became a single social space with global tendency evident in all sectors including economic, military, legal, ecological, cultural and social aspect..

How Rethinking Globalization Can Avert the Clash of Civilisations: Case Study of Muslim Brotherhood

Globalization has affected every aspect of international relations, including economic, social and political realms. From the development of new technologies, new ideas and free trade and new ideas, to the spread of democracies and forms of governments,..

Should The Left Worry about Rahm Emanuel?

The Hippocratic Oath is usually attributed to Hippocrates, a Greek physician born in 460 BC on the island of Cos, Greece, While other oaths of medical ethics for physicians have evolved, the Hippocratic Oath remains the standard for guiding medical ethical behavior...

USA; Guardian of the Palestinians’ and Arabs’ rights

It is known that the Palestinians have been searching for somebody to protect them from the oppression of the occupiers since the early beginning of the 20th century in which their land was usurped by the British (British Mandate) and then handed by them to the Israeli gangs who committed too many ware crimes against civilians in the scattered Palestinian villages and cities...

Islamist Parties and Democracy: Going Back to the Origins

On Islamism’s own original terms, the very existence of Islamist parties is a paradox. Do such parties thus represent a decisive break with the Islamist past that may portend revisions in other areas of Islamist doctrine as well?..

The Kefaya Movement

Kefaya, also known as the Egyptian Movement for Change, was an indigenous movement for political reform organized in late 2004 in opposition to the regime of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. This examination of Kefaya’s birth, ..

Speaking of Next Presidents…..

Who says election cycles are long only in America? In Egypt, Presidential elections are scheduled for 2011 and people are already planning. But unlike America, what’s going to happen in Egypt is far more difficult to read...

Edip Yuksel is Arrested in Turkey Upon the Complaint of a Sunni Cult Leader

After giving three lectures at Oxford University and London on his recent books Manifesto for Islamic Reform and Quran: a Reformist Translation, Edip Yuksel went to Istanbul to give a series of lectures and participate in events and media interviews to promote Islamic Reform. However, upon the complaint of a cult leader, Edip Yuksel is charged with the crimes of insulting Turkishness and the Turkish generals...

Obama, Emanuel and Israel

In the first major appointment of his administration, President-elect Barack Obama has named as his chief of staff Congressman Rahm Emanuel, an Israeli citizen and Israeli army veteran whose father, according to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, was a member of Menachem Begin’s Irgun forces during the Nakba and named his son after "a Lehi combatant who was killed" -- i.e., a member of Yitzhak Shamir’s terrorist Stern Gang, responsible for, in addition to other atrocities against Palestini..

Rare Saudi Arabia protest tests limits of political speech

As hunger strikes go, the 48-hour fast that Fowzan Mohsin al-Harbi and 39 other Saudis plan to stage this week is not likely to have a dramatic outcome. Rather, says the mechanical engineer, the rare public protest is meant to make a statement about the prolonged detention of 11 men who had called for political reforms in this country. ..

US expatriates, Egyptian locals hail Obama the "American Dream"

American expatriates living in Cairo cheered Barak Obama’s win as they partied into the early hours, and Egyptian locals expressed satisfaction with the election of the first black US president. ..