Americans must be led to correct our counterproductive misunderstanding of Islam….The presumptive candidate of one of our two major parties has suggested banning Muslims from entry into the United States….If we do not correct these attitudes, we will continue to pay not just in treasure but in blood. Lots of it.
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What America Keeps Getting Wrong in the Middle East
Posted June 16th, 2016 at 3:01 pm (UTC-5)
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The Muslim Silence on Gay Rights
Posted June 14th, 2016 at 10:02 am (UTC-5)
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No religion has a monopoly on homophobia. The track record of exclusion and outright abuse of gay men and women in the name of God is a depressing reality across faiths. But we cannot use those analogies to excuse our own shortcomings.
The Gravedigger of Kabul
Posted May 27th, 2016 at 12:00 pm (UTC-5)
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Ahmad buried what remained of a suicide bomber who attacked the Indian Embassy….I tell Ahmad that…I interviewed the widow of an…officer who died because of this attack. Ahmad says nothing. I want to know what he would say to her as the man who buried her husband’s killers, but his silence cuts me off.
Sadiq Khan vs. Donald Trump
Posted May 9th, 2016 at 8:28 am (UTC-5)
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In his victory, a triumph over the slurs that tried to tie him to Islamist extremism, Khan stood up for openness against isolationism, integration against confrontation, opportunity for all against racism and misogyny. He was the anti-Trump.
Islam and the Radical West
Posted April 12th, 2016 at 4:57 pm (UTC-5)
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If Islamism is their ideological drug of choice, the political orthodoxies of the modern left are their gateway to it. Take the most recent issue of Inspire. Mixed in with step-by-step photos on how to build a timed hand grenade…there’s an article on the oppression of blacks in America, starting with the killing of Ferguson’s Michael Brown.
Stop Asking “Why Do They Hate Us?”
Posted April 12th, 2016 at 4:04 pm (UTC-5)
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Those who fail to understand the ideology of Islamism will remain confused by it, attributing the violence to hatred because they don’t understand the real motives. So like battered spouses, victims of Islamist violence continue trying to alter their behavior in futile attempts to make “them” love “us.”
A Muslim View of Radical Islam
Posted April 6th, 2016 at 10:17 am (UTC-5)
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While we blame ourselves for what is happening, Muslims are continuing to protect their own, even those who have committed terroristic acts they would never dream of committing themselves. They protect and enable those who are living out their faith according to the Koran. I know because I was once one of them until I […]
Incubators of Islamic Supremacism
Posted March 29th, 2016 at 12:02 am (UTC-5)
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Surveillance in Muslim communities is indispensable for defeating terrorism.
Obama at the Intersection of Religion and Politics
Posted February 4th, 2016 at 4:16 pm (UTC-5)
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During a 24-hour span, President Barack Obama walked that line between American politics and American religion. On Wednesday’s first-of-his-presidency visit to a mosque, Obama thanked Muslim-Americans for their service to the country and acknowledged their concerns and fears of being targeted or blamed when terrorists strike. He assured Muslims — especially the young — that they fit in the American fabric, exhorting “You are not Muslim or American. You are Muslim and American.” Thursday, Obama took advantage of the annual National Prayer Breakfast to press the mostly Christian audience to reject an underlying theme in the presidential campaign, saying “faith is the great cure for fear.” The president’s high-wire act has drawn both praise and scorn.
It is Time for Muslims to Begin a Deep Self-examination
Posted December 31st, 2015 at 11:04 am (UTC-5)
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[Ghassan] Charbel called for shutting down platforms of hate and said the Middle East needs to undertake “a deep re-examination” of its society. … ‘What threatens the Arab and Islamic world today,” he said, “is no less dangerous than the threat that Nazism posed to Europe.’
The Left’s Witch Hunt Against Muslims
Posted December 14th, 2015 at 8:35 am (UTC-5)
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Hope Not Hate, a supposedly “anti-fascist” group in Britain, has just compiled a list of people it deems “anti-Muslim”—including devout Muslims.
Eid al-Fitr 2016: Understanding the Differences Among America’s Muslims
For a group that makes up perhaps only one percent of the country’s population…American Muslims are equally burdened and blessed in their complexity…..Outside of Mecca itself, there exists no other Muslim population that displays the theological, ideological, class and ethnic diversity as that which resides here.