Posted on March 15, 2015. Tags: AIPAC, Charlie Hebdo, Congress, Danish Cartoons, Denmark, Dome of the Rock, Foreign Policy, George Washington, Iran, Islam, Israel, Israel Lobby, J Street, James Madison, Jerusalem, Jewish Voice for Peace, John Boehner, Mecca, Muslims, Netanyahu, Obama, Palestinian Israeli Conflict, Palestinians, Republicans, Shin Bet
This article was first published in The Huffington Post on 3rd March 2015. One of the defining precepts of the American Republic from its earliest days to today has been that the president of the United States represents the country in its dealings with the world. It is a view which the Supreme Court unambiguously […]
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Posted in Iran, Middle East, US, World
Posted on March 15, 2015. Tags: 9/11, Al Qaeda, Charlie Hebdo, Conspiracy Theories, Danish Cartoons, European Union, Iraq, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Islamophobia, Jordan, King Abdullah, Middle East, Obama, Qur'an, Religion, Syria
This week, King Abdullah of Jordan appealed to European parliamentarians to help root out both terrorism and ‘Islamophobia’. Setting aside this interesting conflation, the wholesale failure of Arab and majority Muslim countries to embody either mutual respect or inclusivity towards many of their ethno-religious minorities bespeaks of an imbalance in critical attention to how those […]
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Posted in Europe, Iraq, Islam, Middle East, Political Security, Religion, Security Issues, Syria, Terrorism, World
Posted on January 24, 2015. Tags: Al Qaeda, alienation, Bowen, British Muslims, Charlie Hebdo, deprivation, France, French Muslims, Giles Kepel, identity, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, jihadi, Jivraj, multiculturalism, Racism, Religion, Salafism, Salafist Islam, Theo Van Gogh, United Kingdom
The tragedy of Charlie Hebdo has provoked an immense response from Muslims and non-Muslims all over the world. Almost all who have written about this issue have condemned the killings in Paris, equating them to other similar terrorist threats and attacks such as the Rushdie Affair and the 7/7 bombings in Britain, the 9/11 attacks, and […]
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Posted in Europe, Islam, Religion, Security Issues, Terrorism, World
Posted on January 14, 2015. Tags: Bill Maher, Charlie Hebdo, CNN, Islam, Islamic State, Saudi Arabia
This isn’t a new video but in the aftermath of Charlie Hebdo and the standard rush to judgement on the nature of Islam, Reza Aslan is worth listening to.
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Posted in Culture, Global Politics Videos, Islam, Middle East, Security Issues, Terrorism, World