Global Intifada

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 […]

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 […]

MSA National has recently announced the results of this year’s elections. The purpose of this article is to discuss several problems in the election process that have arisen year after year. For the record, I e-mailed the Election Committee with my concerns and a month has gone by and I have still not received a […]

Here are the relevant excerpts:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is considering letting the FBI investigate Americans without any evidence of wrongdoing, relying instead on a terrorist profile that could single out Muslims, Arabs or other racial and ethnic groups.
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Although President Bush has disavowed targeting suspects based on their race or ethnicity, the new […]

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 […]

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 […]