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Hamas kills civilians, but not as many as Israel

Reuters, which is slightly more objective in covering the Palestinian-Israeli conflict than most of its other Western counterparts, conservatively estimates that Israel’s military has killed "more than 100″ Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip during the past four months of this year. ..

Liberal Islamic Networks in Indonesia: A Counter-Movement to Political Islam

In recent years Indonesia has seen the development of a network of various Muslim NGOs that convey a contemporary understanding of Islam, working to counter the advance of Islamization...

‘Occupation 101’ Film Offers Historic Perspective on Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

As we observe the 60th Year Anniversary of the Palestinian ‘Nakba’ or ‘Catastrophe’ that culminated in May of 1948—and which tragically continues until this day..

BOOK REVIEW: A Stupid, Unjust, and Criminal War: Iraq 2001-2007 (Andrew Greeley)

A Stupid, Unjust, and Criminal War: Iraq 2001-2007 by priest, sociologist, novelist, and columnist Andrew Greeley is a collection of 121 columns dating back to 2001, in their original form. ..

Thank God Someone Is Listening to Us - Terrorism Is Not Jihad

The U.S. Government recently issued a statement asking that government officials be cautious in their use of language as it may actually be against the interests of the U.S. to use terms that connect the religion of Islam with the acts of criminals. ..

Will Islamophobes Be Allowed to Obtain Their Ultimate Goal?

The year 2000 was a seminal point in the manufacture of the threat of Islamophobia. In that year warning bells were sounded at the increasing mischaracterisation of Muslims as ‘Islamists’...

Israel’s 60th Anniversary: Why are some people partying like it’s 1948?

Two weeks before Israel’s 60th anniversary the House and Senate voted unanimously to pass resolutions honoring “the founding of the modern State of Israel...

Words Do Matter

Finally, the Bush Administration is realizing the truth of what Muslims have been saying all along: that words do matter in the war on terrorism, and that some of the terms it had used in the past proved counterproductive...

Elusive Peace: 60 Years of Pain and Suffering in Palestine

George W. Bush, who proposed the boldest peace initiative of any American president to solve the Palestine issue, managed to deliver only the most meager results during his two-term presidency...

Something to Think About: Where Have All the American Muslims Gone?

Muslims have accomplished great things in the last 30 years in America. There are mosques all across the country, week-end schools, full-time schools, youth groups, publishing companies, financial institutions, professional organizations, and that is something to be proud of...

Daniel Pipes Strange Understanding of Radical Religious Ideological Movements

I prefer not to make that comparison between radical Islam and other forms of other religions. I just don’t think there’s any basis for comparison. There is no such thing as a radical Christian ideological movement—it’s fantasy...

Democracy, Presidential Election and the Lobby

Democracy is becoming a joke these days. This assertion is not true just for failed and illiberal democracies like Zimbabwe and Palestine but also for matured and yet imperfect, liberal democracies like France, the UK and the USA...

Islamic Constitutional Law versus Secular Absolutism

The most brilliant Paleo-Conservative yet to emerge among Muslims in America has just published a path-breaking book. This intellectual breakthrough by Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na`im is entitled Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari`a...

Barack Obama did it again!

Dude, it goes like this: We’re bringing democracy to the Middle East. Tax cuts for the obscenely wealthy are to stimulate the economy. George Bush is more patriotic than Al Gore. Our government is there to serve the people. America is always a force for good in the world. There is a god, he is a nice fatherly-looking Caucasian fellow with a big snowy beard (if the resemblance to the god of American children – Santa Claus – doesn’t by itself tell you everything you need to know about re..

Challenges of the Yeshiva Massacre: Who Hi-Jacked Hamas?

The "Yeshiva Massacre" of March 6, 2008, in Jerusalem perpetrated by a Palestinian terrorist and the immediate praise of this operation by the official Hamas spokesman, Sami Abu Zuhri, as well as widespread street celebrations in Gaza and loudspeaker congratulations from mosques, prompted Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to characterize this highly symbolic massacre as a "defining event." No-one, however, has offered a public explanation of what it defines...

Islam, Globalization and Challenges

Much is being written these days on globalization and its effects as well as Islam and challenges of globalization. Yet much more is needed to be written to cover various aspects. Globalization has emerged as a major challenge for religions in general and Islam in particular. Before we deal with these challenges, we would like to throw light on the nature of globalization itself so that we can comprehend the challenge better. ..

The Clash of Civilizations: Some Beginnings of Psychological Analysis

The April 17, 2008, issue of the “New York Review of Books” contains a review by William H. McNeill of Ben Kiernan’s new book, Blood and Soil, Yale University Press, 2007, which may help to explain the 21st century’s ideological obsession with saving the world from chaos by creating a new international law justifying universal, unilateral, creative destruction...

ISLAMIC SHARI’AH IN THE WESTERN WORLD

As the population of Muslims is increasing in western countries like U.K., USA, Canada etc. the demand for applying Shari’ah law to Muslims is being voiced. The Government of Canada was toying with the idea of enforcing Shari’ah law in the state of Toronto but none other than progressive Muslim women and men themselves opposed government’s intention to apply Shari’ah law and in view of stiff opposition by these Muslims, government gave up the idea’ ..

Hizbullah: Has Israel Met Its Match?

On January 31, 2008, when the Winograd Commission submitted its final report on the Second Lebanese War of July 2006, this was a first in Israeli history: a report on why the Israeli military had failed in a war. ..

Hizbullah: Has Israel Met Its Match?

On January 31, 2008, when the Winograd Commission submitted its final report on the Second Lebanese War of July 2006, this was a first in Israeli history: a report on why the Israeli military had failed in a war...