By Ali Moosavi - The Arab American News
The events of Sept. 11 have to be seen in two ways — as the predictable and inevitable consequence of our unchecked imperial policies and as the growth of Islamism as the only popular alternative to the status quo. The irony is that these aren’t mutually exclusive forces; [...]
Moazzam Begg
During my years of incarceration at Bagram and Guantánamo Bay, I was interrogated well over 300 times. One of those interrogations, by the CIA, in my third year of US captivity, I still recall with a sense of amusement. The agent insisted on repeating the word ‘terrorist’ when referring to me. Nothing new, I [...]
By Huma Yusuf
Is anyone else feeling an uncanny sense of deja vu? It seems as if political actors across the globe conspired last week to remind us that history does in fact repeat itself. Looking back at events that have recently unfolded, it becomes clear that the powers that [...]
Going through legal channels to study in America doesn’t protect young people from racism.
By Edwin Okong’o, New American Media.
As a Muslim male of Somali descent living in post-September 11 United States, Mustafa Jumale knew that he risked harassment from law enforcement officers and racism from some Americans. Although he had never experienced [...]
..Now why does this not surprise me? Check out some of the names… Sen. Edward Kennedy? I think my hero Pogo said it best when he said, “We have met the enemy - and he is us!”
By Randall Mikkelsen
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. watch list of terrorism suspects has passed 1 million records, corresponding to [...]
As we enter the Orwellian Age…………………..
Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service
The eye of tech-artist Benjamin Males’ custom-made surveillance camera is engineered for a black and white world.
Black and white people, that is.
Males, 25, a mechanical engineer who recently graduated with a master’s degree from London’s Royal College of Art, wrote the software for a camera that [...]
Just days after the MoD has to pay out millions to the father of a man UK soldiers beat to death, fresh claims of abuse emerge
By Andrew Johnson
The IoS has pixellated this image of the boy making the complaint because he is consumed by shame, and lives in fear of retribution from [...]
WASHINGTON - Civil liberty and immigrant groups are raising red flags against the Justice Department, fearing that ethnic profiling could become institutionalized.
The Justice Department is considering letting the FBI investigate Americans without any evidence of wrongdoing, relying instead on terrorist profiles that could single out racial and ethnic groups.
Currently, FBI agents need specific [...]
Dawud Walid
Now that Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama have become the presumptive presidential nominees for the Republicans and Democrats, they should address how all bigotry, including Islamophobia, hurts America.
The need to address this issue is urgent given the spike in anti-Muslim rhetoric and fear-mongering during the presidential campaign. Former GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee [...]
When a tabloid newspaper reports that a ‘Muslim hate mob’ is daubing abuse, can we believe them?
By Peter Oborne
On the morning of 7 October 2006 The Sun newspaper splashed a dramatic story across its front page. The story – billed as exclusive – concerned a callous and cynical crime committed by Muslims. A [...]
Suspicion of the Muslim community has found its way into mainstream society – and nobody seems to care. By Peter Oborne
Three years ago, four young suicide bombers caused carnage in London. Their aim was not just to kill and maim. There was also a long-term strategic purpose: to sow suspicion and divide Britain between Muslims [...]
by John Halliwell
Sami Al-Arian, holding daughter Lama, 6, center, with son Abdullah, 19, left, daughter Laila, 18, foreground left, daughter Leena, 14, center, wife Nahla, center right, and son Ali, 9, foreground left, pose for a photo with presidential candidate George W. Bush and wife Laura in this March 12, 2000 family photo in Plant [...]
Shannon Proudfoot, CanwestNews Service
A Muslim-style turban is perceived as a threat, according to a new study, even by people who don’t realize they hold the prejudice, dubbed “the turban effect” by researchers.
Research volunteers played a computer game that showed apartment balconies on which different figures appeared, some wearing Muslim-style turbans or hijabs and others bare-headed. [...]
By LARA JAKES JORDAN
In this May 19, 2008 photo, Attorney General Michael Mukasey talks at a roundtable discussion with federal, state and local law enforcement leaders in New Orleans Monday, May 19, 2008. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, file)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is considering letting the FBI investigate Americans without any evidence of wrongdoing, [...]
by Chad
In World War II, we had three major enemies: Germany, Italy, and Japan. Guess which one’s fellow people we primarily put into internment camps during the war. If you guessed the non-European country (Japan), you get a gold star. (Yes, we also interned German-Americans and Italian-Americans, but not nearly to the extent of [...]
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I hear tell they did this stuff in Nazi Germany… now it’s the US and the UK … and everyone else who got sucked into it by the Bush administration….
Mr Shaffi fears his research will place him in conflict with anti-terror laws
A Muslim lecturer who is carrying out online research is so afraid he [...]
Lecturers fear threat to academic freedom
Manual downloaded from US government website
Polly Curtis and Martin Hodgson
A masters student researching terrorist tactics who was arrested and detained for six days after his university informed police about al-Qaida-related material he downloaded has spoken of the “psychological torture” he endured in custody.
Despite his Nottingham University supervisors insisting the materials [...]
By KUSHAL JEENA
UPI Correspondent NEW DELHI, May 28 (UPI)
Indian intellectuals meeting in the aftermath of the May 13 bombings in the northern tourist spot of Jaipur have accused the security and investigative agencies of picking up Muslim youths on suspicion and without any tangible evidence of their involvement in terror- related crimes.
The conference, titled “Terrorism: [...]
By PAUL KORING, Toronto Globe and Mail
Getting on the United Nation’s terrorist list is easy. Getting off is next to impossible.
The blacklist created by Security Council Resolution 1267 in 1999 turns the listed into international pariahs. All U.N. member states are obligated to seize their assets, prevent them from traveling and prosecute anyone who gives [...]
A teenager is due to appear in court charged with terrorist offences.
Andrew Ibrahim is accused of possession of an explosive substance, intent to commit terrorism and possession of articles for terrorist purposes.
The student was arrested on 17 April and three controlled explosions were later carried out at his flat in Westbury-on-Trym, a Bristol suburb.
His hearing [...]
SOURCE : Anonymous
I was transferred to HMP Whitemoor from HMP Belmarsh on 11th July 2007. On arrival I was held in the normal association. I had no problems in whilst in normal location. I had never been in trouble with the officers or other prisoners, and I believe my wing reports will show this. I [...]
By Tom Eley
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In a chilling example of the expanding prosecution of individuals on trumped-up charges of “terrorism,” Syed Hashmi, a 27-year-old US citizen and former student at Brooklyn College in New York City and at London Metropolitan University, is being held in solitary confinement in a federal prison on trumped-up charges of providing [...]
by Chris Floyd
Annals of Liberation I:
“Angry Arab” As’ad AbuKhalil notes the curious Bush-Clinton notions of liberation and freedom in Iraq:
Today Hillary said that the US gave Iraq “the precious gift” of freedom. Here is an example [from the Washington Post]: “Iraq is resisting U.S. proposals for a pair of new bilateral security agreements, saying it [...]
Gareth Peirce on the position of Muslims in BritainThe history of thirty years of conflict in Northern Ireland, as it is being written today, might give the impression of a steady progression towards an inevitable and just conclusion. The new suspect community in this country, Muslims, want to know whether their experience [...]
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