Archive for the ‘International Affairs’ category
Blackwater’s Secret War in Pakistan
By Jeremy Scahill At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members of an elite division of Blackwater are at the center of a secret program in which they plan targeted assassinations of suspected Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives, “snatch and [...]
Israel’s War Crimes: A First Hand Account of Israel’s Attacks on Palestinian Civilians and Civilian Infrastructure
By Reem Salahi Reem Salahi is a lawyer specializing in national security and civil rights. In February 2009, Reem traveled with the National Lawyers Guild delegation to assess the legal implications of Israel’s onslaught on Gaza. Reem would like to dedicate this article to all the Palestinians she met and interviewed while in Gaza and [...]
National Campus BDS Conference
Note: Insha’Allah SuhaibWebb.com will be sending people to cover this conference. Announcing the 2009 Campus Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Conference at Hampshire College endorsed by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel What & Where: From November 20th through the 22nd, students, faculty, and staff from around the country who are [...]
Open Letter to Anwar al-Awlaki
By Omer Mozaffar In response to his blog posting “Nidal Hassan Did the Right Thing.” I would post this letter as a “comment” on that blog entry, but I do not trust that that blog is legitimately his. Some of the blog postings are so shortsighted and simplistic that I do not expect that they [...]
Muslim Americans Must Obey U.S. Laws: Nidal Hasan Disobeyed Islamic Doctrine
by Danios The Islamophobic blogosphere has gone buck-wild. Robert Spencer, Pamela Geller, and the rest of the goof troop are pretty ecstatic that Major Nidal Hasan, a Muslim American, killed thirteen U.S. soldiers at Fort Hood. Nothing makes a neo-conservative happier than an attack on American soil; as the family of the victims mourn the [...]
Thoughts on the Fort Hood Tragedy
Asalamu `alaykum, Over the last few days I received a number of emails and messages expressing great disillusion with what has happened at Fort Hood. This is your chance to vent, offer your thoughts and share in the healing process. One of the positive, out of many, things I’ve noticed is the idea of taking [...]
Fort Hood Has Enough Victims
By Wajahat Ali Whatever was in the mind of alleged shooter Major Nidal Malik Hasan, there is no reason to question the loyalty of Muslim Americans After an American soldier’s tragic outburst of violence at Fort Hood, Texas – the army’s largest US post, with some 40,000 troops – dominates the headlines, a fear-mongering hysteria [...]
Court Reverses Decision to Bar Swiss Muslim Scholar
By Benjamin Weiser A federal appeals court in Manhattan on Friday reversed a lower court ruling that had allowed the government to bar a prominent Muslim scholar from entering the United States in 2004 on grounds he had contributed to a charity that had connections to terrorism. Court Ruling The scholar, Tariq Ramadan, 46, a Swiss [...]
A Window into Xinjiang
Asalamu alaykum, I had dinner the other night with 20 Imams from China. While the expressed great hope for the areas of China they live in, there was great concern and fear for the Muslims of Xinjang. May Allah protect them. Suhaib
The Headscarf and Sacrifice
by Kate Connolly and Jack Shenker Some thousands of Egyptians surround the coffin of 32-year old pregnant Egyptian woman Marwa el-Sherbini, Monday July 6, 2009, who was stabbed by a German man in a courtroom in eastern Germany last week, during her funeral in Alexandria, Egypt. The woman was to testify against the man in court after [...]
Russell [Rush] Simmons On Obama’s Speech
By Russel Simmons I was brought to tears by the president’s simple, but truthful approach to building a bridge with the Muslim world. This is the real way to fight terrorism, through open and honest dialogue, where we promote love and destroy hate. We are now witnessing the front line of the battle. The battle for [...]
On Obama’s Speech by Sh. Ali Guma Grand Mufti of Egypt
By Dr. `Ali Gom`a | Translated by Sr. Marwa I listened to the well-prepared speech of the US President Barack Obama in Cairo University last Thursday. In fact, it is a good start of the mutual relationships between the Muslim World and the United States. In his speech, President Obama referred to civilization’s debt to [...]
Scholar’s Thoughts on Obama’s visit
Asalamu alaykum: The last few weeks have been nothing short of a hurricane for me. Ask anyone who knows me and the word that seems to follow me is “exams.” It is exam season and I have had very little time to catch my breath. However, over the last few weeks I was able to [...]
Obama’s Egypt Speech: What He Should Say to the Muslim World Middle East, Arab-Israeli Relations, Human Rights, Diplomacy, Islamic World Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World The Brookings Institution
On June 4, 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama will deliver what is being billed as a “major speech to the Muslim world” in Cairo, Egypt. The speech comes at a particularly tense moment in the relationship between the United States and the world’s approximately 1.3 billion Muslims, as the latter wait to see how the [...]
The Fall Out Of Hijra: The Fallacy Of The Hijra Fatwa Strikes Back At Our People
By Kitty Caparella SAYFULLAAH Al-Amriykiy was reeling after he read a Daily News story last August about Nasir Daymar Gould, a 30-year-old West Philadelphia native, and five other U.S. citizens locked up for two months in a Yemeni prison. “I knew exactly what he was going through,” said Al-Amriykiy, 53, a world-renowned jujitsu grand master. [...]
Another War, Another Defeat
The Gaza offensive has succeeded in punishing the Palestinians but not in making Israel more secure By John J. Mearsheimer Courtesy of The American Conservative Israelis and their American supporters claim that Israel learned its lessons well from the disastrous 2006 Lebanon war and has devised a winning strategy for the present war against Hamas. [...]
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