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The Power and Necessity of Humor in the Arab-Israeli Conflict

There is a growing a new debate in the Arab-Israeli conflict involving the power and role of humor. Since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, there has been a new industry of Arab American comedians doing standup comedy increasingly on American comedy club stages...

Required class: Islam 101

There’s been a lot of talk about Muslims and Islam in the media lately, with the reprinting of the Danish cartoons. We can debate what the newspaper’s intentions were, but for whatever reasons the newspaper decided to reprint the cartoon, one thing is clear and that is those cartoons were not only offensive to radical or fundamental Muslims but also to the moderate Muslim majority...

The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act Undermines Freedom

The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act - H.R. 1955 was passed by a landslide vote (a bipartisan vote of 404-6) in the House of Representatives in October of 2007...

Self-Determination: A Faint Light Emerging at the End of the NeoCon Tunnel

Tony Cordesman’s op-ed position paper of March 30 in the Sunday New York Times from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, entitled "A Civil War Iraq Can’t Win" shows that acute failure may have a bright side if it triggers a paradigmatic shift from utopian ideologies to the recognition of pragmatic realities...

Don’t Confuse Islam and Muslims

There are many people in American society who are searching desperately for something to hold onto in a world that is changing too fast...

The Great Lake of Gaza: A New Crisis in the Making

In a place just a few miles from sandy beaches and soaring sky-scrapers, white stone villas and sky-blue swimming pools, it seems the epitome of irony and injustice that over 1.5 million people would be subjected to drinking sewage-contaminated water...

Geert Wilders’ Attempt to Provoke Fitna Is Failing

In January I wrote an article, How Geert Wilders’ anti-Qur’an film can be made to benefit the Muslim community. In this article, I suggested that if when when this film was released Muslims showed restraint, and were encouraged by Imams giving Khutbas on Friday asking for calm and giving sound Qur’anic logic for diplomatic, and peaceful responses and stressing the prophet’s example in dealing with hostility we could turn a bad situation into someting beneficial...

Where are the Iraqis in the Iraq War?

Five years after the US invasion and occupation of Iraq, mainstream media is once more making the topic an object of intense scrutiny. The costs and implications of the war are endlessly covered from all possible angles, with one notable exception—the cost to the Iraqi people themselves...

Interview with Jurgen Todenhofer - Iraq: Five Years On: "Respect and Fairness for the Muslim World"

Five years after the Iraq War, Jürgen Todenh?fer, a prominent German media manager and former member of parliament for the Christian Democrats, travelled to Iraq to interview "resistance fighters" and al-Qaida terrorists. He recently published an account of what he experienced there. Interview by Hisham Adem..

The Science of Terror

Sometimes the science community, hiding behind the guise of empirical research, cannot see its own bias even while correctly analyzing a situation...

Happy Anniversary America. How Lethally Stupid Can One Country Be?

Watching George W. Bush in operation these last couple of weeks is like having an out-of-body experience. On acid. During a nightmare. In a different galaxy...

Obama and Rev. Wright

The Obama saga has been interesting to follow. He has been attacked for everything BUT being black. He has been accused of being a closet Muslim, asked to reject AND denounce the endorsement of Minister Farrakhan, and now not only to publically renounce statements made by his pastor, the Rev...

Arabs driven by biases that mirror Israeli biases

Last month, Hamas terrorists fired rockets into Israel and killed an Israeli girl. The attack provoked a massive response from Israel which claimed to target Hamas militants but ended up killing dozens of Palestinian civilians...

Germany: Israel, Israel Above Everything - Merkel in the Knesset

If the German chancellor really cared for Israel’s security as she claimed, she would not have been able to hold a speech like the one she presented on March 18 in front of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament...

UN’s Assessment of Human Rights Violations in Occupied Palestine

John Dugard is The UN Human Rights Council’s Special Rapporteur on Palestine and a rare public official. In January 2008, he assessed the situation in Occupied Palestine (OPT)...

Tombstones mark anniversary of another infamous date

March 19, 2003: a date that will live in infamy. Perhaps not in the minds of many of our fellow citizens, but surely to most people around the world. On that date, U.S. military forces invaded Iraq...

Democracy Day in Pakistan Promises No Pardon for Musharraf

Pakistan’s newly-elected Parliament meets on Monday, March 17, to form a new government. Monday is “democracy day” ending the eight years of military rule...

RESPECTING THE QUR’AN

Geert Wilders is a Dutch politician who broke with a mainstream national party to form his own extreme-right, anti-immigrant platform. Wilders has directed most of his hatred in recent years at Muslims...

Book Review: The Politics of Apocalypse—The History and Influence of Christian Zionism

Christian Zionism, a variant of Christian fundamentalism, is today a major global force to reckon with. Christian Zionists are a key player in American (and to a lesser extent, Western European) politics...

Reflections on the Meeting Between Catholics and Muslims At the Pontifical Council for Interreligius

May I express, first of all, my appreciation to the Pontifical Council for its recognition of the importance of the Common Word document, and to Cardinal Tauran for his kind and heartfelt words of welcome...