H E A D L I N E S [ 11 ]
November 2017
Hate tweets about Muslims lead to hate crimes
By John Robbins: The antics of our commander-in-chief may no longer surprise us, but they can still profoundly horrify. Wednesday morning, President Trump retweeted three videos supposedly depicting Muslims committing acts of violence, each captioned in a manner linking the actions with the perpetrators’ racial or religious identity. The videos originated from the Twitter feed of Jayda Fransen, an anti-Muslim activist in the UK who was recently convicted of religiously aggravated harassment. Read More
Muslim leaders speak out against Trump’s inflammatory retweets
By Sharon Samber: Muslim American leaders gathered on Capitol Hill to condemn President Trump’s sharing of videos purporting to show Muslims committing violent acts just hours after he posted the images to his Twitter feed. The retweets, sent to his more than 43 million followers, showcased three videos originally tweeted from the account of the deputy leader of a British anti-immigrant fringe group, Britain First. The group is considered anti-Muslim by many in the country, and its name was shouted by an extremist who gunned down and stabbed a member of Parliament earlier this year. Read More
Concerns, Causes and Countermeasures to the Rohingya Problem
By Dr. Habib Siddiqui: In the last four months, since August 2017, more than 615,000 natives of Arakan – the Rohingya Muslims and Hindus – have been forced to leave their native land to settle in Bangladesh as a refugee. They have left behind everything that was important to them and even family members – as their properties were looted before being burned down with living family members inside. The perpetrators have committed unfathomable crimes against humanity that have been described by the UN Secretary General as the ‘textbook example of ethnic cleansing.’ Human rights activists (including me) and genocide experts have been calling them the victims of Genocide. Read More
Anti-Islam GOP survey alarms American Muslims
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: The seven-million-strong American Muslim community was alarmed at an anti-Islam question included in the Republican Party survey titled as “Listening to America.” The question No. 27 of the 32 question survey asks: “Are you concerned by the potential spread of Sharia Law?” It may be pointed out that the term ‘Sharia’ refers to Islamic religious teachings, comparable to Catholic cannon law and Jewish Halacha. Read More
Appeals court allows Trump's Muslim ban 3.0 to take partial effect
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: The San Francisco-based 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Monday (Nov.13) allowed President Donald Trump's Muslim travel ban 3.0 to go partially into effect, exempting persons with 'bona fide relationships' to the US. The Monday order means the ban will apply to people from Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia and Chad who do not have connections to the United States. Read More
Hate crimes — especially against Muslims — went up in 2016: FBI
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: Incidents of hate crimes, particularly against African-Americans, Jews and Muslims, went up to 6,121 during 2016, seeing an increase of 4.6 percent compared to the previous year, according to data released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Monday (Nov. 13). A hate crime is defined by the FBI as a "criminal offence against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender's bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, or gender identity". Read More
Judge Moore and Joseph the Carpenter ain’t the same!
By Habib Siddiqui: As President Trump is visiting Southeast Asia, another Republican is making the headlines in the US news media. He is Roy S. Moore, a 70-year old former Alabama state judge best known for being twice elected to and twice removed from the Alabama Supreme Court. In 1992, he became a circuit court judge and hung his wooden Ten Commandments plaque in his courtroom. In 2000, he was elected chief justice of Alabama’s Supreme Court, and he soon installed a 5,280-pound granite Ten Commandments monument in the judicial building. Read More
Turkey denies working with Michael Flynn to kidnap Gulen
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: Prime Minister Binali Yildirim Saturday (Nov 11) denied Turkey's involvement in an alleged plot involving former U.S security adviser Michael Flynn to kidnap U.S.-based controversial cleric Fetullah Gulen, allegedly behind last year's coup attempt to overthrow President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Extraditing Gulen is a major priority for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Read More
Why India alarmed at US funding of NGOs promoting religious freedom?
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: The Indian government on Thursday (Nov 9, 2017) said it has sought details about the US announcement to provide grant to NGOs to promote religious freedom in India. The US has announced it wants to “increase societal tolerance” and reduce “religiously-motivated violence” and discrimination in India with nearly $500,000 grant to NGOs in the country. Read More
Muslims decry double standard after NYC-Texas attacks
Hannan Adely: In the days after the recent terror attack in New York City, Paterson mosques fielded death threats, and Muslim Americans were again called to explain the actions of one individual whose violent acts don't reflect the tenets of their faith. Having to denounce an act committed in the name of their faith is a double standard, say Muslim leaders, who reluctantly step into that role even as other groups aren't asked to do the same. Read More
If a guy named Mohammad blew up Texas church?
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: 'If a guy named Mohammad blew up that church yesterday. O my God, O my God, Washington would be on fire," says MSNBC Moring Joe Host (Monday Nov.6, 2017). Joe Scarboroug was alluding to Sunday's shooting at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas that killed at least 26 people and injured 19. Read More
Texas Church Shooting or Terrorism?
By Dr. Ejaz Naqvi: First of all my thoughts and prayers go out to the victims and their families and friends of this terror attack on a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas yesterday. There are so many angles to look at this terror attack. It is being called a “gun shooting”, “gun violence” and “massacre”. I have yet to hear the T-word- terrorism to describe it. Read More
Why Should Britain Apologize For the Balfour Declaration?
By Dr. Mohsen Mohammad Saleh: Until now, the British government does not seem inclined to review its colonial behavior in Palestine, which led to the establishment of the Zionist state “Israel” there, and caused a catastrophe for the Palestinian people. They were dislodged from most of their land, and their social fabric was ripped apart, while most Palestinians became refugees. The statement by UK Prime Minister Theresa May, in which she showed pride in the Balfour Declaration and the foundation of Israel, is only proof of that. British policy has for decades claimed that during its occupation of Palestine in 1917–1948, it sought not to inflict harm on the Palestinian people…, and that the context of events is responsible for their tragic situation. Read More
The problem with American democracy
By Habib Siddiqui: The 2016 American presidential election and its result have been odd by any standard. No one expected Donald Trump, a man who never ran a single public office in his life, to be chosen by the GOP as its candidate and then win the election defeating Hillary Clinton. The latter, even on the very day of voting, was touted as the presumptive winner until almost midnight when it was clear that she could not win the states like Florida and Pennsylvania where it was necessary. But more importantly, even the Democratic Party was not fair in its path to nominating Mrs. Clinton. The party insiders have long been accused of showing favoritism to her and that Bernie Sanders was cheated out of the system. Even the questions during the 1-to-1 debate were leaked out to Clinton! Primary election was rigged, true to Trump's accusations. Read More
American Muslims fear backlash after New York attack
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: The seven-million strong American Muslim community fears a backlash after the Tuesday (Oct. 31) attack in New York when a driver ploughed a truck through crowds in lower Manhattan killing eight and injuring a dozen more. Imam Mohammad Qatanani, spiritual leader of the Islamic Center of Passaic County (N.J.), said: “People here feel they will be blamed as a religion and as a people. Because this guy was a Muslim, Muslims will be blamed anywhere and everywhere.” According to Pittsburg Post-Gazette the Islamic Center of Passaic County had already received eight telephone threats, prompting police to assign extra patrols to the area. Read More
DPRK’s little known secrets ensure sustainability of the Stalinist regime
By Habib Siddiqui: In recent months, North Korea has attracted much world attention due to its nuclear program threatening its neighbors to the east and south. The official name of the country is Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), although it is neither democratic nor a people’s republic. The state is run by Kim Jong-un, a tyrant with a Fred Flintstone haircut. He is effectively one of the last pure hereditary absolute monarchs on the planet. He is the Marshal of the DPRK, the Great Successor, and the Sun of the 21st Century. In his mid-30s, the Supreme Leader owns the longest list of excessive honorifics anywhere, every one of them unearned. He is the youngest head of state in the world and probably the most spoiled. Read More
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