by Mo Saqib I spent an evening with 31-year-old Ahmed Hrustanovic, an imam at Srebrenica’s main mosque. We sat with our iced teas on the balcony of Hotel Alic next door, with a lovely view of the surrounding hills and overlooking the town. Ahmed had earlier that day received a phone call from a friend.”They […]
If Americans Knew | July 12, 2017 Recently discovered documents show Israeli leaders were worried that evidence would come out that Israel’s 1967 attack on the USS Liberty was intentional. The Liberty was a Navy electronics surveillance ship operating in international waters during the Six-Day War. Israeli forces perpetrated an extended air and sea assault […]
By Peter Van Buren | We Meant Well | June 30, 2017 U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis has said “civilian casualties are a fact of life in this sort of situation,” referring to America’s war against Islamic State. How can America in clear conscience continue to kill civilians across the Middle East? It’s easy; […]
via How Accidental are America’s Accidental Civilian Killings Across the Middle East? — Aletho News
Buddhist hardliners stop Myanmar Muslim ceremony 08 Jan 2017 Buddhist monks take part in a rally near Shwedagon pagoda in Yangon to oppose a recent government edict referring to Muslim communities in Myanmar’s divided Rakhine State. (Photo: AFP/Ye Aung Thu) YANGON: Hardline Buddhist nationalists stopped a Muslim religious ceremony in Yangon on Sunday, witnesses and […]
After Finsbury Park, we must crush the poisonous narrative that all Muslims are responsible for terror ~ NABILA RAMDANI, THE TELEGRAPH, 19 June 2017. The sight of an Imam protecting a terrorist suspect from attack by an angry crowd is one that will disappoint many hateful bigots in Britain today. Selfless courage and decency from a Muslim cleric does not […]
I had the pleasure last Saturday of breaking the fast with the Clear Lake Islamic Center, the Muslim American Society, and other members of their communities at an annual Ramadan gathering in Seabrook, Texas. I was invited by my friend Dr. Mohamed Shalaby, who asked me to speak on Prophet Muhammad’s model of integration and how […]
via Prophet Muhammad’s Model of Integration for the U.S. and the Ummah — Dr. Craig Considine
The Israeli war started with a lie Fifty long years of occupation; of dispossession and ethnic cleansing; of house demolitions and night curfews; of checkpoints, walls, and permits By Mehdi Hassan Fifty years ago, between June 5 and June 10, 1967, Israel invaded and occupied East Jerusalem, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula […]
