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Peace In Arabic

David Suissa | Posted 11.20.2009 | World

Read More: Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Jews, Arabs, Khaled Abu Toameh, Ramallah, Islamic Radicalism, Palestinians, Stand With Us, Israel, Barack Obama, Israeli Arabs, World News

His words didn't smell like propaganda or activism. He spoke for moderate Palestinians like himself, and he spoke from his heart, not from talking points.

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Malaysia's Government Goes Islamic: Commentary

RealClearWorld | Posted 10.26.2009 | World

Read More: Islamophobia, Islam, Malaysia Islam, Islamic Radicalism, Malaysia, Malaysia Muslims, Asia, World News

In Malaysia's current political climate, it is no longer possible to distinguish Islamic radicals from Islamic moderates. Despite official boasting ab...

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Somalia: Islamists Whip Women For Wearing Bras

Reuters | Posted 10.16.2009 | World

Read More: Somalia Violence, Women, Women's Rights, Islam, Violence Against Women, Islamic Radicalism, Somalia, Somalia Terrorists, Islamic Extremists, World News

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's hardline Islamist group al Shabaab has publicly whipped women for wearing bras they say violate Islam by constituting ...

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Dear America: Letter From a Muslim-American

Mohsin Mohi-Ud Din | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Islam, America, Middle East, Afghanistan, Foreign Affairs, Iran, Iraq, Muslim, Barack Obama, Kashmir, Muslim Moderates, Despots, Media and Islam, CIA Afghanistan, Muslim World, Islamic Radicalism, Obama Muslim World, Politics News

America, you are part of us and we are a part of you. The actions of a violent minority have for too long trumped the selfless and righteous actions of the moderate majority who do good in the name of Islam.

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Central Asia Sounds Alarm On Islamic Radicalism

nytimes.com | CLIFFORD J. LEVY | Posted 09.18.2009 | World

Read More: Central Asia Terrorism, Islamic Radicalism, Terrorism, Central Asia, Central Asia Islamic Radicalism, Asia, Central Asia Human Rights, Central Asia Radicalism, World News

KOSH-KORGON, Kyrgyzstan �" The three men were locals who were said to have once crossed into nearby Afghanistan to wage war alongside the Taliban. T...

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Saving the Islamic World's Christians

Richard Z. Chesnoff | Posted 08.24.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Islamic Extremists, Christians, Palestinian Christians, Islamic Radicalism, World News

Even in Islamic countries not strictly run by Sharia law, pressures mount on local Christians to leave the homes they've known for centuries.

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Why the "New Atheists" are Right-Wing on Foreign Policy

Robert Wright | Posted 08.13.2009 | World

Read More: Islam, Religion, Suicide Bombers, Atheism, Islamic Radicalism, Terrorism, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, The Evolution of God, Religion and Politics, Atheists, Adolf Hitler, Robert Wright, Richard Dawkins, World News

It must strike progressive atheists as a stroke of bad luck that Christopher Hitchens, leading atheist spokesperson, happens to have hawkish views on foreign policy.

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Barack Obama and Islam

John L. Esposito | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama-and-Islam, Islamophobia, Jerry Falwell, Cairo, Obama Muslim, Prophet Mohammed, Islamic Radicalism, Obama Mideast Trip, Obama Cairo Speech, Barack Obama, Pat Robertson, Muslim World, Islamo-Fascism, Politics News

Muslims' major grievance against the West is what they identify as the denigration of Islam and Muslims and how they are seen by the West as inferior and not of equal value.

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The Student of History Needs to Go to Summer School

Mark Levine | Posted 07.07.2009 | World

Read More: Egypt, Islam, Obama, War on Terror, Islamic Radicalism, Middle East, Cairo, Obama Cairo, Obama Mideast Trip, Palestine, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Western Sahara, Soviet Union, Morocco, Israel, Iraq, India, World News

For all its well-intentioned rhetoric, President Obama's speech was, sadly, conceptually flawed, empirically challenged, and politically blind to the daily realities that drive hundreds of millions of Muslims to increasing despair.

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Obama's Challenge to the Muslim World

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf | Posted 07.06.2009 | World

Read More: Islam, Cairo, Islamic Radicalism, Religion and Politics, Quran, Obama Cairo, Islamic Extremists, Obama, Muslim, Obama Cairo Speech, World News

Muslims now have the leader of the most powerful nation on earth agreeing with them and seeking their help.

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Cooperation and Conflict: Obama's Cairo Speech

Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics

In Cairo, President Obama employed a variety of historical, liturgical, and political references to express America's hope for a new beginning with the Islamic world. Here are ten critical lines from the speech.

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Obama to Muslims: Unclench Your Fist

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 06.26.2009 | World

Read More: Religion, Islam, Islamic Radicalism, Terrorism, Obama Inauguration, President Obama, Religion and Politics, Islamic Extremists, Obama Administration, Muslims, Obama, Muslim, Barack Obama, Muslim World, World News

Obama recognizes that although most Muslims reject violence, many Muslims do not favor our kind of political system or the full plethora of human rights as we list them.

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What Shariah Law Is All About

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf | Posted 05.25.2009 | World

Read More: Muslim, Sharia Law, Cordoba Initiative, Islam, Burka, Islamic Radicalism, Sharia, World News

Rather than fear Shariah law, we should understand what it actually is. Then we can encourage Muslim countries to make the changes that achieve the essence of fairness and justice at the root of Islam.

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Women's Rights, Rape and Religion

Carol Hoenig | Posted 05.20.2009 | World

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Lds, Religion, Polygamy, Islamic Radicalism, Bible, Afghan Rape Law, Oprah, Afghanistan, Koran, Fundamentalists, Extremism, Women's Rights, World News

For our Afghanistan sisters escaping from a domineering marriage can mean possible death without punishment for the husband since the government recognizes Islamic law as the law of the land.

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How Bush's Policies in the Muslim World Played into Terrorists' Hands -- Can Obama Reverse Course?

Robert Creamer | Posted 03.26.2009 | World

Read More: Islam, K, Middle East, Islamic Radicalism, Palestine, Israel, Obama, Ashmir, Terrorism, Al Qaeda, Bush, War on Terror, Neoconservatives, Afghanastan, World News

What the Bush policy on terrorism ignored was that more than anything else people want a sense of meaning and identity -- and their corollary: respect.

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"Honor Killing" and Islam

Kamran Pasha | Posted 03.22.2009 | World

Read More: Mo Hassan, Islam, Muzzammil “Mo” Hassan, Hassan Beheading, Muzzammil Hassan, Islamic Extremists, TV Exec Beheaded, Muzzammil, Muslim TV Exec, Muzammil Hassan, Islamic Radicalism, Muslim Exec, Muslim Tv Exec Accused of Beheading Wife in Ny, Aasiya Hassan, Beheading, World News

Perhaps the way out of this madness for the Muslim community is to look back at the life of Prophet Muhammad and remember his true legacy as a visionary champion of women's rights.

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Southern California Muslims Battle Islamophobia in a Post 9/11 World

Brooke-Sidney Gavins | Posted 03.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hate Crimes, Terrorists, Terrorism, California, Islamophobia, Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, Anti-Muslim, Cair, Islamic Radicalism, Smearcasting, Muslims, Islamic, Anti-Muslim Bias, Muslim, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, Council for American and Islamic Relations, Religious Fanaticism, Politics News

Terrorism. Terrorists. Since the planes flew into the World Trade towers on September 11, 2001, these words have become almost synonymous with Islam and being a Muslim.

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A Silk Road to Obama's Success

Sunil Adam | Posted 03.01.2009 | World

Read More: Al-Qaida, Islamic Radicalism, Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, Kashmir, Hillary Clinton, Obama, Afghanistan, India, World, China, Terrorism, Foreign Policy, State Department, Barack Obama, World News

The Obama administration seems oblivious of the only option it has to solve the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan without broadening the crisis -- involving China in the conflict resolution strategy.

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Accused of Funding Hamas, Controversial Charity Collects Money in Lebanon for Palestinians in Gaza (VIDEO)

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin | Posted 02.12.2009 | World

Read More: Islam, Treasury Department, World News, World, Gaza, France, Terrorism, Hezbollah, Tzipi Livni, Ehud Barak, Lebanon, Hamas, Humanitarian Aid, Muslim Brotherhood, Islamic Radicalism, Israel, President Bush, Video, World News

On Beirut's waterfront road, young men dressed in green jackets with the Etelaf Al-Khair logo on their backs are handing out fliers with images of bloodied Palestinian children and holding donation boxes.

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Hajj and Terrorism

Jamal Dajani | Posted 01.12.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Islam, Kirkuk, War on Terror, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Terrorism, George W. Bush, 9/11, Hajj Pilgrimage, War in Iraq, Barack Obama, Islamic Radicalism, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Hajj, Mumbai Attacks, World News

Radical Islam can only be defeated from within. The sooner President-elect Barack Obama understands this, the faster innocent lives will be spared.

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Starving the Murderers

David Suissa | Posted 01.04.2009 | World

Read More: Middle East Politics, Terrorism, United Nations, Global War on Terror, Hezbollah, Iran, Mumbai, Hamas, Martin Kramer, Foreign Policy, Shalem Center, David Horowitz, Islamic Radicalism, Mumbai Attacks, Financial Crisis, Muslims, Mumbai Terrorism, World News

When violence strikes, we get angry and make all this noise about our "Global War on Terror," which only feeds into the jihadists' pathology and apocalyptic visions.

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Why They Hate Them

Lapham's Quarterly | Posted 01.03.2009 | World

Read More: India, Pakistan, Islamophobia, Hinduism, Muslim and Hindu Relations, Islamic Radicalism, Terrorism, Mumbai Attacks, World News

To distance itself from last week's terror attacks, the Pakistan-based organization now held responsible issued a missive from a fake terror organization. Indian intelligence was not fooled.

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My Uncensored Interview with Deepak Chopra

Michelle Haimoff | Posted 01.03.2009 | World

Read More: Islamic Militants, India, War on Terror, Islamic Extremists, Dorothy Rabinowitz, Media, Wall Street Journal, Mumbai Hotel Shootings, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Saudi Arabia, Mumbai Deaths, American Muslims, Deepak Chopra, Muslims, Mumbai Terrorist Attacks, Mumbai Terrorism, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Terrorism, Pakistan, The View, Mumbai, Shock and Awe, Mujahideen, Mainstream Media, Iraq War, Patriot Act, Patriotism, Islamic Radicalism, Cnn, Mumbai Attacks, Deepak Chopra Mumbai, Anti-Muslim Bias, Iraq, World News

I spoke to Chopra Tuesday and gave him the opportunity to speak candidly about censorship in the media, the new patriotism, Elizabeth Hasselbeck, and latent anti-Muslim racism in the United States.

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The Refugee Who Rocked Islam: an Exclusive Interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Johann Hari | Posted 12.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Terrorism, Religion, Islam, Islamic Radicalism, Theo Van Gogh, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Politics News

Here she is, with the last sliver of protection she can afford standing between her and the people determined to murder her, still speaking, still fighting.

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Dare We Stand Up for Muslim Women?

Johann Hari | Posted 11.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Women's Rights, Islam, Islamic Radicalism, Saudi Arabia, Oil, Taliban, Iraq, Feminism, Politics News

Shahnaz's husband and his brothers carefully gathered up battery acid, pinned her down, and hurled it into her face. Her crime was to be a Muslim woman who wanted to be treated as equal to a man.

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