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Rabbi Pelavin’s Response to “Attention Rabbi Yoffie: Please Speak To Moderate Muslims”

In September, Rabbi Eric Yoffie, President of the Union for Reformed Judaism addressed the ISNA annual convention. This was followed by Ingrid Mattson, President of ISNA addressing the convention of the Union of Reformed Judaism (Rabbi Yoffie’s organization)...

American-Arab ADC Objects to Islamophobic Remarks by Huckabee Aide

Today the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) sent a letter to Republican presidential candidate and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee. ADC, the nation’s largest civil rights organization working on behalf of the Arab-American community, relayed its deep concern over the recent appointment of James Pinkerton as a senior advisor to the Huckabee campaign. As a contributor to Fox News and a columnist for Newsday, Pinkerton had made several troubling statements concernin..

Israeli Oppression in Hebron - A Case History of Separation, Forced Displacement and Terror

B’Tselem is the independent Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian) Territories (OPT) based in Jerusalem with a well-deserved reputation for accuracy and integrity. It was founded in 1989 to “document and educate the Israeli public, policymakers (and concerned people everywhere) about human rights violations in the (OPT), combat the phenomenon of denial prevalent among the Israeli public (and elsewhere), and create a human rights culture in Israel” to c..

FL ATTORNEY GENERAL REQUIRES EMPLOYEES TO WATCH ANTI-MUSLIM PROPAGANDA

The Muslim Public Affairs Council today sent a letter to Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum, who serves as a campaign adviser to Rudy Giuliani, calling on him to cease subjecting his employees to blatantly anti-Muslim propaganda. ..

Challenge and Response: The Case of Islamophobic Wilding

The challenge posed by Geert Wilders’ ten-minute film attacking the Prophet Muhammad, salla Allahu ‘alayhi wa salam, is political. He is a member of the Dutch parliament and a leader of a far right party that is trying to gain votes by exploiting the growing alienation and hostility between the minority of Muslims in Europe and the majority population...

How Geert Wilders’ anti-Qur’an film can be made to benefit the Muslim community

Geert Wilders is a Dutch politician who has made a 10 minute film on the Qur’an. He says that he wants to “expose” the Qur’an, and his previous statements about the Qur’an and Islam seem to show a commitment to provocation and bigotry that make it clear that this will not be a balanced or honest film. ..

In Recognition of Women

When Imam Zuhri, a famous scholar of sunna (Prophet Muhammad’s traditions), indicated to Qasim ibn Muhammad, a scholar of the Quran, a desire to seek knowledge, Qasim advised him to join the assembly of a well-known woman jurist of the day, Amra bint Al-Rahman. Imam Zuhri attended her assembly and later described her as a boundless ocean of knowledge...

End the Siege on the People of Gaza International Day of Action, Jan. 26

Israel is continuing to escalate its attacks on Gaza, killing more than 40 Palestinians just this past week and wounding scores more, and has placed the already besieged territory under complete lockdown.That is eliminating what little access the besieged population had to food, fuel, clean water and ever-more-urgent medical services. By Sunday Gaza’s only power generator was shut down because of a lack of fuel; hospitals are starting to be affected and Palestinian medical officials re..

Geer Wilders Anti-Qur’an Film: Silence will be the best response

Netherlands: A movie-provocation about which everybody is talking while nobody knows anything ! Silence will be the best response.. ..

War on Terror Rhetoric Sounds Like War on Islam

Given their divergent views on issues from abortion to same-sex unions, televangelist Pat Robertson’s endorsement of Republican Presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani makes them the quintessential odd couple..

The Role of Ulama and Fuqaha (scholars) in Islam

I am grateful to THE AMERICAN MUSLIM for this opportunity to communicate with my brothers and sisters. I am responding to brother Prof. Jamal Elias’ article in the May/June 1991 issue “Women’s Rights and the Interpretation of Law”. Brother Elias raised many issued which need to be addressed; among them is THE ROLE OF THE ULAMA. ..

Lift the Blockade on Gaza Relief Convoy

Saturday January 26, 2008: A countrywide relief convoy and Israeli demonstration in solidarity on the Gaza border with a parallel Palestinian demonstration in the Strip. On Saturday, 26 January 2008, a humanitarian convoy of supplies headed by peace and human rights organisations will go from Haifa, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Beer Sheva to the Gaza Strip border, decked with signs “Lift the Blockade!” The convoy will meet up at 12.00 noon at Yad Mordechai Junction and all will then trave..

Bigotry is an ugly word

Bigotry is an ugly word, beyond prejudice and stereotype. So I want to make it clear that I have chosen it purposely, knowing that some people who read this message will be insulted. To be clear again: the insult is intentional...

Guantanamo as a Symbol

11 January marked the sixth year anniversary of the establishment of the Guantanamo detention camp. Mere months after the start of the 2001 United States invasion of Afghanistan, a large cargo plane landed in a US military base in Cuba’s Guantanamo Bay, bringing in a group of hunchbacked, orange-clad, blindfolded, “terrorist” suspects, apparently representing the worst of the worst. They included children and aged men, charity workers, journalists and people who were sold to the US mil..

Guantanamo as a Symbol

11 January marked the sixth year anniversary of the establishment of the Guantanamo detention camp. Mere months after the start of the 2001 United States invasion of Afghanistan, a large cargo plane landed in a US military base in Cuba’s Guantanamo Bay, bringing in a group of hunchbacked, orange-clad, blindfolded, “terrorist” suspects, apparently representing the worst of the worst. They included children and aged men, charity workers, journalists and people who were sold to the US mil..

Institutionalized Spying on Americans

This article reviews two police state tools (among many in use) in America. One is new, undiscussed and largely unknown to the public. The other was covered in a December article by this writer called Police State America. Here it’s updated with new information. ..

Comparing Classical American with Classical Islamic Thought: A Review of Omar Tarazi

The major cause of civilizational dissolution over the past couple of hundred years is the elevation of “a new collectivism dedicated to human progress” to the status of a false god. This is the watchword of progressivism. ..

Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?

Whether or not the United States was founded as a Christian nation is a question that concerns people probably more than it should. It’s not that the question is unimportant. Asking it, however, demonstrates a lack of understanding of the basis of western civilization: the Aristotelian understanding of the natural law...

You Can’t Kill the Truth: Remembering Martin Luther King

“We’ve got to give ourselves to this struggle to the end. Nothing would be more tragic than to stop at this point. We’ve got to see it through. Be concerned about your brother. Either we go up together, or we go down together.” ..

Reviving a Tradition: Muslim Women as Religious Authorities

Separate madrasas for Muslim girls are a relatively recent phenomenon in India. Although the number of such madrasas is still small, there is a distinct trend towards setting up more such institutions, both that provide only religious education, as well as those that combine both Islamic and modern subjects...