After the vote by the American Studies Association (ASA) last December to endorse the academic boycott of Israel, in January more than 200 college and university presidents, along with the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), rushed to condemn it for what they termed its abridgement of academic freedom and curtailing of the exchange of … Continued
Muslims everywhere are fasting for Ramadan, the holiest month in the Islamic calendar. From dusk until dawn, those who participate go without food and drinks, but it’s all done for a purpose. One spiritual leader in Lawton said Ramadan it is his favorite time of year, because it’s all about remembering to be compassionate, spiritually … Continued
This video:”Meeting America: All-American Muslims in Michigan” The video by Meet the Press explores the city of Dearborn, the city with the largest Arab/Muslim population in the nation. At the Islamic Center of America, Imam Al-Qazwini warns agains religious extremism not only in his home country of Iraq, but in the United States as well. … Continued
1. Airstrikes killed 7 and wounded 30 in Mosul on Sunday. But it isn’t clear who was flying the planes! The U.S. denies it was Americans, and the spokesman for the Baghdad government said he did not know anything about it. The Syrian and Iranian air forces are other possibilities. It is likely the Iraqi … Continued
This is the first round of grants distributed by the newly established and only national Arab American philanthropy program in the country. With grants totaling $73,900, CAAP is providing valuable capacity-building support to organizations as they move forward to strengthen their organizational development. “These grants represent an historic moment in the Arab American community,” said … Continued
15-year-old American citizen, Tareq Abu Khieder, said he was beaten and detained by Israeli border police in an interview Sunday with his sister and mother, Suha Abu Khieder, in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Shuafat. Sufian Taha The Washington Post
As tragedy and uninterrupted terror strikes the besieged Palestinian population once more, Western media outlets have been busy producing and presenting articles and television reports on the events taking place. These “news reports” – for the lack of a better terminology – are presented as factual and true, objective and neutral, unblemished by personal, emotional, … Continued
Black and yellow concrete barricades block the roads entering this wealthy Sunni enclave, where foreign-born Sunni soldiers in armored personnel carriers guard the mansions of the ruling family and the business elite. Beyond the enclave are impoverished villages of Shiites, about 70 percent of Bahrain’s more than 650,000 citizens, where the police skirmish nightly with … Continued
Americans are commemorating the Fourth of July today, the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. The grievances that the four million inhabitants of British North America had in 1776 were not felt by them to be narrow or specific but rather universal, and so too was the remedy. They laid against the government of King … Continued
First the Palestinian flag was draped from the team bus during the team’s triumphant open-top bus tour of the capital, now it has been claimed that the Algerian national football team are to donate their entire World Cup prize fund to the embattled people of Gaza. According to quotes attributed to Algeria’s star striker Islam … Continued
The Islamic observance of Ramadan began on the evening of Saturday, June 28, and goes on for a month. During that time, Muslims all over the world, including those here in Michigan, will fast until sundown and then feast with family and friends. Non-Muslims generally know little about Ramadan, and many don’t care. But this … Continued
A thousand years ago, the great cities of Baghdad, Damascus and Cairo took turns to race ahead of the Western world. Islam and innovation were twins. The various Arab caliphates were dynamic superpowers—beacons of learning, tolerance and trade. Yet today the Arabs are in a wretched state. Even as Asia, Latin America and Africa advance, … Continued
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