[By Paul Findley — Chicago Tribune — Feb. 7, 2007] At the age of 82, Jimmy Carter entered the lion's den. With the publication of his latest book, “Palestine: Peace not Apartheid,” he did what a patriot would do — rally Americans to vigorous debate of a critical issue that affects

[By Shahed Amanullah – alt.muslim — January 3, 2007] . . . Adorned with his initials, Jefferson's Qur'an — a 1764 English translation from Arabic by George Sale — was purchased and used during his comparative legal studies, and was sold to the Library of Congress after the War of 1812. . . . And

“I can tell you from personal experience that the support Israel has in Congress is based completely on political fear — fear of defeat by anyone who does not do what Israel wants done. I can also tell you that very few members of Congress — at least when I served there

Gerald Ford was almost alone in understanding that there can be no healing without pardon." — Dick Cheney, 30 December 2006, eulogizing Gerald Ford. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- One of the executioners asked "Are you afraid?" He answered "I am not afraid of anyone. I have been a mujahid and

Cumhuriyet yesterday [21 November 2006] reported that Denmark, which started a crisis when one of its newspapers printed cartoons of Prophet Mohammed(PBUH), has included the phrase “All terrorists are Muslims” in primary school textbooks. Cumhuriyet claimed the textbooks used in Denmark’s schools teach about Islam under chapters titled

One should not forget that Cardinal Ratzinger (before becoming pope) said: Turkey should find its identity in the Islamic world and not in Christian Europe. I had the privilege to visit Istanbul recently, and I would advise anyone to please go visit Turkey, and particular Istanbul, to understand this critical

The October 23, 2006, issue of McLeans contains an alarmist article, “Why the future belongs to Islam,” written by Mark Steyn, is an overtly racist piece of propaganda. A description of the cover picture is in order. The dark, ominous image features a background mass of people entirely covered in

While meetings with Bush at that time were friendly, Schroeder said he could not reconcile himself with the feeling that religion was the driving force behind many of Bush’s political decisions. “What bothered me, and in a certain way made me suspicious despite the relaxed atmosphere, was again and

INDONESIA EMERGING AS A BEACON OF WORKING DEMOCRACY [By Shawn W. Crispin – Asia Times — October 19, 2006] With Thailand under military-appointed rule, the Philippines fresh from a stint of martial law, plus an unresolved vote-rigging scandal, and the rest of Southeast Asia under hard and soft authoritarian yokes, Indonesia has

Dinar Standard [http://dinarstandard.com/current/Scientific100206.htm] **Table 1: Top 25 Most Productive Universities in the Muslim World***University CountryPublications**1. University Hacettepe Turkey 8,9792. University Istanbul Turkey 6,488 3. Ankara University Turkey 5,9824. Cairo University Egypt 4,9775. Kuwait UniversityKuwait 4,4956. King Saud University

From Dinar Standard [http://dinarstandard.com/management/IbnKhaldun_Mgmt100206.htm] Many classical scholars wrote books and treatises which fell into a genre called nasihat al muluk (advice to the kings). This advice to royal authority stemmed from the fact that these scholars served in the courts of sultans, caliphs and

In 1919 in India, the Rowlatt Act was passed, indefinitely extending wartime “emergency measures” in order to control public unrest and root out conspiracy. “This act effectively authorized the government to imprison without trial, any person suspected of terrorism living in the Raj (rule).” “Na Vakeel, Na Daleel, Na Appeal,

In his own words: #In February 1971, when I was unjustly fired by the Globe and Mail nine days after being nominated for a national newspaper award, following which I was blacklisted across Canada for the next 35 years, Hardial encouraged me to march on. “If the Globe and Mail

While travelling the other day, I observed the lady next to me reading an American evangelical magazine with page after page of anti-Islam stuff stated in the most childishly hateful manner. More than offended, I was amused and wondered what was the desired goal of this synergy between Zionists, evangelical

The war on terror as initially envisioned by the US is lost – today Bush effectively declared the CIA ‘torture’ program illegal, upheld the Geneva conventions, promised to eventually close down Guantanamo and try the captured 9/11 terrorist leaders in military tribunals with defence attorneys provided. Now it is

Letter published by the Toronto Star [http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1156456211037&call_pageid=968332189003&col=968350116895] Re: Outspoken Liberal MP exits foreign critic post – Aug. 24. The recent flap over a Liberal MP’s suggestion

Do Canadian Muslims have leaders who represent the aspirations and political leanings of the growing and divergent Muslim community, or are they seduced by short-term opportunism? Let us take a look. Liberal MP Jim Karygiannis resigned from Joe Volpe’s Liberal leadership campaign due to Volpe’s unabashed support for

The king of Saudi Arabia threatened that regional war [http://today.reuters.com/business/newsarticle.aspx?type=tnBusinessNews&storyID=nL25115098] would take the place of the ‘peace processes’ of the past. Being stranded on the wrong foot for the past two weeks, this is brilliant strategy to counter the

Often in human history, there comes a time when a generation must heed the call to quell a threat to civilization. Not every generation is faced with this call and those that do are remembered for their sacrifice by the others that are not. These are the people who recognize

Akber Choudhry “Russia’s big and so is China”, the US president made this remark while the microphone was on. The rest of the overheard conversation [http://www.crooksandliars.com/posts/2006/07/17/bush-unplugged-at-the-g8-over-middle-east-conflict] showed how pitifully foolish and out of touch Bush is. It also shows, sadly, that

Impeccable timing and media manipulation – that’s all I can say. “Now the Lebanese and the Palestinians are both caught in the crossfire. Iran and its proxies on one side, and Israel (and Washington) on the other, are acting like chess players who, having both thought out a sequence of

“This isn’t a challenge to some decision that a court makes. This is a challenge to the court itself.” – Prof. Neal Katyal, in front of the US Supreme Court. bin Laden’s driver defeated the US Secretary of Defence in the US Supreme Court. Some sense has prevailed in

So-called freedom for Iraqis has been death, poverty and insecurity. The following accounts are not a result of ‘insurgent’ activity, but rather the work of US/UK allies: Terri Judd in the Independent UK [http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article717570.ece] takes a deeper look at their

By Faheem Hussain The Post, Pakistan [http://www.thepost.com.pk/Arc_OpinionNews.aspx?dtlid=44303&catid=11&date=06/14/2006&fcatid=14] Faheem Hussain is an Italian based Pakistani theoretical physicist who has written for Counterpunch magazine. In this piece for the Pakistani newspaper POST,

First, a British professor refused to write for an academic journal funded by Israeli universities, saying that he was taking part in a boycott of Israel. “Alas, I am unable to accept your kind invitation, for reasons that you may not like,” wrote Professor Richard Seaford, from the University of