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U.S. DOMESTIC ISSUES BLOCK MIDEAST PEACE

During his current trip to the Mideast, President Bush said any peace treaty between the Israelis and the Palestinians would require “painful political concessions by both sides.” ..

US Elections: Just Like the Movies

The United States political process bears an uncanny resemblance to mainstream filmmaking. Elections and speeches are scripted to the letter,..

Where Do The Candidates Stand On The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?

This week, President Bush kicked off a six-nation tour of the Middle East with a visit to Israel and the West Bank in an effort to reaffirm the United States’ commitment to restart the Israeli-Palestinian peace process...

Savage vs. CAIR: Free speech vs. hate speech

Cinnamon Stillwell’s recent column in SF Gate, “Savage vs. CAIR: The battle over free speech” on Dec. 19 offers a holiday assortment of misleading truths and omissions of facts. In her misguided defense of the “Savage Nation” radio show, Stillwell essentially defends anarchistic hate against minority groups including African Americans, Hispanics, Asians, Muslims, Catholics, Jews, immigrants and women. ..

MPAC Commends President’s Call for End of Israeli Occupation of Palestinian Land

The Muslim Public Affairs Council commends President Bush’s call this morning for an end to Israel’s 41-year occupation of Palestinian land and stated commitment to forge a peace agreement before the end of his term. ..

Palestine Visit: Hebron and Ibrahimi Mosque

After our overnight stay in Beit Sahour, the next day we went to Hebron to visit Ibrahimi Mosque. From the spot where bus dropped us we had to walk for about one and a half K.M. through a busy and crowded market. All thirty of us following our guide and in a train like formation, struggling to keep pace with the one ahead of us. The train like formation was natural consequence of a group walking together through an overcrowded area. There were shops for various items from clothes to je..

The Bridge with Islam

It is not only because in my family’s veins runs the blood of people who lived in Iraq, Syria, Morocco, Tunisia and Turkey, nor because among my congregants there are natives of Bahrain and Indonesia. ..

The Muslim Expulsion from Spain: An Early Example of Religious and Ethnic Cleansing

Everything declines after reaching perfection.../ The tap of the white ablution fount weeps in despair, like a passionate lover weeping at the departure of the beloved, / over dwellings emptied of Islam, whose inhabitants now live in unbelief, / where the mosques have become churches in which only bells and crosses are found…/ O who will redress the humiliation of a people who were once powerful, a people whose condition injustice and tyrants have changed? / Yesterday they were kings i..

BOOK REVIEW: Guardians of Power (David Cromwell & David Edwards)

David Cromwell is a Scottish writer, activist and oceanographer at the National Oceanography Centre in Britain. David Edwards is also a UK writer who focuses on human rights, the environment and the media. Together they edit an extraordinary “UK-based media-watch project” called Media Lens. It “offers authoritative criticism of mainstream media bias and censorship, as well as providing in-depth analysis, quotes, media contact details and other resources.” ..

Pakistanis Want Larger Role for Both Islam and Democracy

An in-depth survey of Pakistani public opinion reveals majority support for a moderate and democratic Islamic state, though a small but significant minority shows sympathy for Islamist militant groups...

U.S. Presidents and the drive for Middle East peace

What is it about Presidents who wait until the last minute to try and achieve peace in the Middle East? President George W. Bush is in Jerusalem meeting with Israelis and Palestinians to help nudge the latest generation of the “peace process” along. Why does this all sound so familiar? Bush is on the last leg of a presidential career. His final year. And all of a sudden, he wants to do all he can to bring about peace in the Middle East between Palestinians and Israelis...

Bush’s visit to the Middle East: triumph of form over substance

The President’s visit to the Middle East this week will show once and for all that status quo lives on under the attempt to validate the old saying that an ounce of image is worth a pound of performance. In this case the image came seven years too late. In public appearances the Bush administration claims it supports “the road map for peace”. In 2218 words that “map” lacks any mention of human rights and International law. But even with this shortcoming, it calls for total freeze on se..

Islam’s Forsaken Renaissance

Children often play a game where they sit in a circle. One whispers something to his neighbor, who then whispers that information to the next child, and so on, around the circle. By the time the last child whispers the information to the first, it is totally different from what was originally said. ..

A Christian jihad?

Many in the west fear the threat posed by political Islam. But there is a more ominous menace closer to home. After every terror attack by Islamists, fears are raised in conservative circles about the “Islamisation” of our culture with the presence of hundreds of thousands of Muslims in the UK and millions across Europe. ..

Freedom of Thought, IJTIHAD, Interpretation, IJMA, Islamization of Knowledge - article collection

Freedom of Thought, IJTIHAD, Interpretation, IJMA, Islamization of Knowledge - article collection ..

Israeli Lobby - Article Collection

Israeli Lobby - Article Collection ..

Neo-Cons - Right Wing - article collection

Neo-Cons - Right Wing - article collection ..

Islam and Honor Killings

For that reason, we ordained for the Children of Israel that whoever kills a soul for other than murder or spreading corruption in the land, it is as if he has killed the whole of humanity… Qur’an 5:35 ..

Relative Violence in Islam and Christianity

I’m writing a book on the origins of religious violence and my thesis is that there has been far more religiously motivated violence in the Abrahamic religions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—than the Asian religions. ..

Obama and Romney Iowa Campaign Offices Occupied by Peace Activists

Opponents of the occupation of Iraq today occupied the Iowa campaign headquarters of presidential candidates U.S. Senator Barak Obama and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, waiting for a response to a letter requesting them to oppose any more spending for the war or occupation and foreswear an attack on Iran. ..