Friends, Last year, renowned Muslim scholar and Fellow of Islamic Studies at UCLA, Khaled Abou El_Fadl wrote a soul uplifting piece about Islam in The Boston ...
February 25, 2002 NAKED FROM SIN The Ordeal of Nahla and Sami Al-Arian By Alex Lynch COUNTERPUNCH http://www.counterpunch.org/lynchnahla.html There were no...
Friends, The Washington Post today carries a story on a Saudi Islamic school in the DC area. Here is an excerpt from this report: "The 11th-grade textbook, for...
Friends, An interesting analysis in the New York Times today talks about the rise of Hindu fundamentalism in India, notwithstanding the election blows to the...
Friends, With all the talk about an expected US intervention in Somalia and the timely release of "Black Hawk Down," it is interesting to peep into the past ...
Friends, Pervez Hoodbhoy is Pakistan's leading anti-nuclear peace activist who was once referred to by the New York Newsday as "Lonely Voice of Peace In ...
Friends, Much of the mess created by the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan has its roots in an Indian city called Deoband. The 135-year old seminary in the ...
Friends, Eid Mubarik. As we celebrate Eid al Adha along with the lucky two million who performed Hajj, the focus on Saudi Arabia continues to grow. The bizarre...
Friends, Carolyn Briggs received an MFA in creative writing from the University of Arkansas. Her memoir, "This Dark World: A Memoir of Salvation Found and ...
Friends, Let us all pray Jamil Al-Amin gets a fair trial. I am worried he may have to pay a heavy price and join Mumia Abu Jamal on the death row. I hope they ...
Friends, Sarah Elton is senior editor of Montreal's SHIFT magazine. In this article in Canada's Globe and Mail, Sarah exposes the slow encroaching of civil ...
Friends, As we learn about Pentagon plans for 'planting propaganda and even misleading stories in international media,' it is interesting to note, this leak...
Friends, This Sunday's New York Times Magazine carries a detailed cover story about life in remote Afghanistan. The magazine cover shows a black & white...
Musharraf berates Muslim world By Zaffar Abbas in Islamabad BBC World Service http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1824000/1824455.stm ...
Friends, Aziz Choudry is a New Zealand based, British born activist of Pakistani origin. He has organized and participated in a wide range of solidarity ...
Friends, After sending the post on Timbuktu last week, I recalled a NYT Magazine story on the plight of a man from Mali and his pitiful existence as a slave ...
Friends, Tariq Ramadan, the grandson of Hassan Al Banna, has been at the forefront of what I call a movement for a renaissance in Islam. I've heard him in...
Friends, When Muslims talk about their 'glorious past,' they are probably referring to Andalusia, Abbaside Baghdad, Ottoman Istanbul or Mughal Delhi. Rarely do...
Friends, Benjamin R. Barber is a distinguished university professor at the University of Maryland who wrote the now famous "Jihad vs. McWorld," a book that...
Friends, Here is the last of the 3-part series on the Marriage of Convenience between the US and Saudi Arabia; or better described as the "Axle of Evil." After...
Friends, Written a month after the 9/11 tragedy, Edward Said's article exposing the false premise of Sam Huntington's "Clash of Civilizations" makes particular...
Friends, The Washington Post today prints fascinating details into US-Saudi relationship as part of a 3-part series. Its like going through a John Le Carre...
Friends, Today's Washington Post carries an exclusive front page story about the inner workings of the US-Saudi relationship and what is being portrayed as a ...
Friends, We often get caught up being de-sensitized to the plight of the Palestinians as a result of the biased coverage in the media. This slide-show...
Salaam friends, Today's Toronto Star carries a disturbing article written by a freelance writer about the institution of poor children being employed as...
IF YOU LIVE OUTSIDE TORONTO, PLEASE DELETE ========================================== Salaam Alaikum friends, The Toronto Peace Action Coalition is holding a...
Friends, Many of us who live in Europe or North American often wonder why the democracy we enjoy in these countries is not possible in the Muslim World, ...
Friends, Fadime Sahindel, daughter of Kurdish refugees in Sweden, was executed by her father. Her crime? She fell in love with a Swedish man. Muslims need to...
Friends, Today's New York Times magazine cover shows a silhouette of Arafat against a blood-red background. The headline succinctly states, "The State ...
Friend, Today's New York Times carries an interesting piece on the issue of religion and the consequences of one religion being considered superior and the...
