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When Brave soldiers were led by Timid Generals

Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced on March 11th that Admiral William J. Fallon’s request for early retirement had been granted regretfully. The 63-year-old admiral was appointed with great fanfare as the head of the U S Central Command only about a year ago, after serving as head of US Pacific Command. He became the commander of the US forces in the Middle East, responsible for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq (as General Petraeus’ boss). And if Bush had his way in engineering a..

AAI Condemns Rep. King’s Anti-Muslim Remarks, Calls on Congressional Leaders to Censure Him

The Arab American Institute (AAI) condemns remarks made by Congressman Steve King (R-IA) linking Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) to al-Qaeda and Islamist extremism and suggesting that the senator’s election as U.S. President would jeopardize national security...

Is Progress possible amidst the cycle of revenge? The Gaza Holocaust: The Wrong Address to Peace

When the news of the shooting at the Religious Seminary in Jerusalem broke, an immediate celebration broke out on the streets of Gaza...

GENDER ISSUES - WOMEN IN ISLAM - article collection

originally posted 1/11/2003 - updated 3/8/2008 ..

Call for U.S. to Support Joint Ceasefire, End its Support of Occupation, Stop Escalation of Violence

Earlier this week, American peace group Jewish Voice for Peace expressed outrage at the terrible loss of life in the latest escalation of violence in the Middle East in Gaza and Sderot...

Catastrophe in Gaza - How Can the Cycle of Violence Be Stopped?

We are faced with an alarming escalation of violence in what we refer to as the “Holy Land”. This land is held in reverence by Jews, Christians, and Muslims, and yet has become the locus for violence, brutality and senseless violence and an endless cycle of revenge. How can this show our respect and love for the Holy Land?..

Egypt Targets Moderate Muslim Brothers

Khaled Hamza Salam and I are on opposite ends of the political spectrum. He is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s largest opposition movement, which wants to turn Egypt into an Islamic state...

Migration, Youth Violence and Islam: A Culture of Looking Carefully

Is the high level of violence among first, second and third-generation migrants in Germany really due to Islam? Absolutely not, argues the cultural anthropologist Werner Schiffauer in an interview with Claudia Mende..

Statement on the Kidnapping of Chaldean Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho in Mosul

The Arab American Institute is outraged by the kidnapping of Paulos Faraj Rahho, Archbishop of Mosul, and the killing of three men in his party...

Israeli Extra-Judicial Executions

At 8:50AM on February 27, an Israeli aircraft fired two missiles at a civilian microbus on the coastal road near Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. ..

Attacks on Obama Highlight Racism and Islamophobia

The tide of Islamophobia in the U.S. has reached tsunami proportions and not just in the supermarket tabloids. Government officials who even interact with American Muslim leaders have had their loyalty questioned, and during the campaigning for the Presidential elections many candidates have jumped on the Islamophobia bandwagon...

Strangulation in the Dark: Palestine, Somalia, and the American Mainstream Media

Whenever the media fails to press and keep the powerful at check the inevitable consequence is prolonged oppression, lethal destruction, and radicalized insurgency...

Professor Tariq Ramadan Adds Blessing to Muslim Scholars Call to Dialogue to World’s Jewish

Monday 25 February, world-renowned Muslim scholar Professor Tariq Ramadan publicly signed a statement to the world’s Jewish Community calling for peace and understanding...

The Spirit of Tolerance in Islam

Intolerance is on the increase in the world today, causing death, genocide, violence, religious persecution as well as confrontations on different levels. Some times it is racial and ethnic, some times it is religious and ideological, other times it is political and social...

Muslims in the Media: The Challenge of 9-11 and Beyond

On September 11, 2001 the American Media found itself aghast at perhaps the most tragic and spectacular event in the nation’s history...

Divisions in Our World are Not the Result of Religion

Karen Armstrong was a Catholic nun for seven years before leaving her order and going to Oxford. Today, she is amongst the most renowned theologians and has written numerous bestsellers on the great religions and their founders...

The Role of People of Conscience in Cultivating Peace and Preventing Human Rights Abuse

This is the full text of a message delivered at the 5th Annual Martin Luther King Human Rights Forum held on Jan 17th, 2008 at the MLK Center in Atlanta, Georgia by Abukar Arman...

The Politics of Islam(ism): Decolonizing the Postcolonial

As a reaction to perceived threats to national identity and social cohesion arising from migration, multiculturalism and, above all, the resurgent Muslim presence in its midst, a vocal political and cultural tendency has emerged in the West to claim national ownership of a set of core values which purport to distinguish modern, progressive Western civilization and its way of life from alien and hostile influences which are held to be incompatible with it...

Obsession: Radical Judaism’s War With Islam

On August 30th the ‘documentary’ Obsession: Radical Islam’s War With the West was shown in Saint Louis. Prior to the showing of the film we had approached our local Interfaith Partnership group and asked if they would stand with us to express their objection to this film, and were told that 1) this was not an interfaith issue, and 2) is was a matter of free speech. ..

Who Are the Superdelegates?

The close race for delegates between Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton (NY) and Barack Obama (IL) has created commotion over the role of superdelegates...