Archives » September, 2008

Responding to an Obsession

Earlier this month, an Islamophobic DVD entitled “Obsession” was distributed to approximately 28 million households after being inserted in 70 newspapers throughout the country although in predominantly swing states. The distribution of this documentary is highly controversial because of its inflammatory nature during the month when the 9/11 terrorist attacks occurred. The film parades itself […]

American Muslims and US Foreign Policy

The 2008 elections is upon us and once again, the American Muslim is caught with its pants dropped between its ankles as our leaders run around like a bunch of chickens with their heads cut off. The biggest problem seems to be that both of the presidential candidates seem to plan on “intervening” somewhere in […]

ACLU Wants Information on Government Watch List

In September 2007, the Inspector General of the Justice Department reported that the Terrorist Screening Center (the FBI-administered organization that consolidates terrorist watch list information in the United States) had over 700,000 names in its database as of April 2007 - and that the list was growing by an average of over 20,000 records per […]

Observations on the Current International System

Unfortunately, the talk of a return to the Cold War has become quite frequent among political analysts these days due to American and Russian competition in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. The term is misleading because, unlike the Cold War which was essentially characterized by the bipolar nature of international relations, the present conflict is […]

Islamists Need a Comprehensive Program

One of the problem with Islamists is that they tend to reduce all of the Ummah’s problem into one of the implementation of certain legal injunctions and ignore that society has a variety of needs that must be fulfilled in order to be functioned or they become fixated on the fetish of fighting some foreign […]

George Saliba on the “Decline” of Science in the Muslim World

I’ve received several complaints from people that I post articles that are too long. For those of you who don’t feel like reading the entire thing or would like some background before delving into it, the following comments are my “cliff notes summary” of this excellent piece by Professor George Saliba.
Professor Saliba has written a […]

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