Global Intifada

Are the Wars on Terror and Iraq truly designed to promote global stability or merely to pursue American interests? Is this expansionism a new phenomenon or merely a manifestation of a pre-existing pathology to control the world at the expense of other peoples?
- Extermination of the Native Americans
- Spanish-American Wars followed by the brutal suppression […]

Today, the New York Times posted an article that reveals that the Obama campaign has fairly systematically avoided associating itself with the American Muslim community. Here are some interesting tidbits of information:

Last December, the first American Muslim congressman, Representative Keith Ellison, offered to assist Obama in Iowa last year December. The Iowa caucuses are important […]

Earlier this month, Republican Presidential candidate John McCain lambasted the oil industry:
“I am very angry, frankly, at the oil companies,” said the presumptive GOP presidential nominee. “Not only because of the obscene profits they’ve made, but their failure to invest in alternative energy to help us eliminate our dependence on foreign oil.” (Source)
When McCain ran […]

The Muslim Obamabots (hat tip to Eteraz for the term) are bending over backwards to support Obama, in spite of several indications that supporting him might not be in the best interest of the community, such as his weak stance against Islamophobia, blind support of Israel, and violating the sovereignty of Pakistan to fight the […]

As you read this post, I would advise that you pop in classic modern rock song “The Boys Are Back In Town” by Thin Lizzy.
Got the song on? Okay, now proceed with reading the post.
According to the New York Times, several Western oil companies that were kicked out of Iraq for 36 years during Saddam […]

Alhumdulillah, it looks like Senator Obama personally contacted the two sisters who had been prevented from sitting behind him by campaign volunteers during an election rally in Michigan and apologized to them. He also issued the following statement earlier today:
“I reached out to Ms. Aref and Ms. Abdelfadeel this afternoon. I […]

We’ve heard this phrase so many times before.
When tyrannical monarchies hiding behind the guise of religion oppressed people, we were told “Don’t make waves.”
When European imperialists came to our lands, robbed our natural resources, subverted elites into their peons, enslaved millions, dispossessed the lands of its native inhabitants, and created a patently discriminatory and unfair […]

Muslim Barack Obama Fans Told to Hide from Television Cameras
So apparently, some Hijabis were sitting in special seats at Obama’s Detroit rally and one of them was asked to sit somewhere else and another was asked to take her headscarf off. Now, the underlying reason is probably because these volunteers didn’t want Obama to be […]

Interesting juxtaposition on skin tanning/whitening beauty product commercials.

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In case you already didn’t know, one of the hottest Muslim magazines is Illume Media. In addition to writing thought-provoking articles, they just revamped their website and its got some amazinggggg features. In addition to really integrating it into the web (RSS feed, user blogs, etc), my favorite feature is the magazine preview which gives […]