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...
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Friends, Today's New York Times magazine cover shows a silhouette of Arafat against a blood-red background. The headline succinctly states, "The State ...
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Feb 5, 2002 11:15 am
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...
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Feb 6, 2002 11:36 am
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, ...
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Feb 8, 2002 11:56 pm
IF YOU LIVE OUTSIDE TORONTO, PLEASE DELETE ========================================== Salaam Alaikum friends, The Toronto Peace Action Coalition is holding a...
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Feb 9, 2002 12:35 pm
Salaam friends, Today's Toronto Star carries a disturbing article written by a freelance writer about the institution of poor children being employed as...
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Feb 10, 2002 1:09 pm
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...
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Feb 10, 2002 11:41 pm
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 ...
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Feb 11, 2002 10:57 pm
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...
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Feb 13, 2002 2:23 am
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...
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Feb 13, 2002 11:46 am
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...
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Feb 14, 2002 10:53 am
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...
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Feb 15, 2002 4:39 pm
Friends, When Muslims talk about their 'glorious past,' they are probably referring to Andalusia, Abbaside Baghdad, Ottoman Istanbul or Mughal Delhi. Rarely do...
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Feb 15, 2002 9:09 pm
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...
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Feb 16, 2002 2:45 pm
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 ...
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Feb 17, 2002 1:27 pm
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 ...
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Feb 18, 2002 11:12 am
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 ...
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Feb 19, 2002 8:36 am
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...
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Feb 20, 2002 11:19 am
Friends, As we learn about Pentagon plans for 'planting propaganda and even misleading stories in international media,' it is interesting to note, this leak...
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Feb 21, 2002 11:02 am
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 ...
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Feb 21, 2002 11:02 am
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 ...
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Feb 22, 2002 11:54 am
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 ...
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Feb 23, 2002 7:46 am
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...
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Feb 24, 2002 2:10 pm
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 ...
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Feb 24, 2002 4:57 pm
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 ...
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Feb 25, 2002 11:14 am
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 ...
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Feb 26, 2002 11:41 am
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...
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Feb 27, 2002 1:43 pm
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...
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Feb 28, 2002 11:22 am
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...
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Mar 1, 2002 10:52 am
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 ...
