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7/8/2008 | News | By:Tashbih Sayyed, Ph. D
Fourth of July - Is America Safe?
We must realize that the real war to defeat America is not being fought in South Asia, Central Asia or the Middle East, but right here in the United States of America. Our enemies have adopted our ways, our mannerisms, and our language. Understanding our commitment to our values, the enemies of Americanism have become "Americans". They are using our democracy and our freedoms to subvert the very Constitution that is the source of them.
7/8/2008 | News | Supna Zaidi
Why Secularism Matters
What does it mean to be offended and when does a person have the right to expect the law to intervene because we have been offended? The West's sense of "offense" versus the Muslim world's is fast becoming a central issue all over the world and is a factor in the failure of secularism in the Muslim world so far. From the dramatic riots caused by the Dutch cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad to more subtle fights in the courtroom, where Islamists shout defamation and bigotry to censor criticism in the name of respect for their faith. So long as there is no separation of religion from the public sphere, Muslims will never be raised to understand the difference between legitimate debating, disagreement and critique from racism and bigotry.
7/8/2008 | News | Farhan Bokhari
Al Qaeda Expanding Recruitment Of Children
Al Qaeda has successfully established a network for recruiting boys as young as 12 from across central Asia as it seeks new volunteers to enlarge its team of prospective suicide bombers and militants fighters, senior security officials from the Middle East have revealed to CBS News. News of al Qaeda venturing into the former Soviet central Asian republics with a population that has a largely Muslim heritage marks a significant addition to reports earlier this year that the hardline group had recruited young boys in the Pak-Afghan border region.
6/26/2008 | News |
Saudi Marriage Officiant: It Is Permitted to Marry a Girl Aged One Year, If Sex is Postponed; The Prophet Muhammad, Whose Model We Follow, Married 'Aisha When She Was Six and Had Sex with Her When She Was Nine
Following are excerpts from an interview with Saudi marriage officiant Dr. Ahmad Al-Mu'bi. The interview aired on LBC TV on June 19, 2008: To view the clip on MEMRI TV, visit http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1798.htm. "There Is No Minimal Age For Entering Marriage...The Prophet Muhammad is the Model We Follow" Dr. Ahmad Al-Mu'bi: "Marriage is actually two things: First we are talking about the marriage contract itself. This is one thing, while consummating the marriage - having sex with the wife for the first time - is another thing. "There is no minimal age for entering marriage. You can have a marriage contract even with a one-year-old girl, not to mention a girl of nine, seven, or eight. This is merely a contract [indicating] consent. The guardian in such a case must be the father, because the father's opinion is obligatory. Thus, the girl becomes a wife...
6/25/2008 | News | Pete Chagnon
Vermont city split over Al Jazeera on cable
A New England mayor has stopped one of his city's cable providers from dropping Al Jazeera English, a 24-hour English version of the controversial Arabic-language news network. Taxpayer dollars are used to broadcast anit-American bias in news coverage.
6/20/2008 | News | Jim Brown
Islamic school has notorious alumni
A conservative group says it's attempting to "lift the veil off the deception" at an Islamic school in Virginia funded by the Saudi government. The Traditional Values Coalition (TVC) recently held a demonstration outside the Islamic Saudi Academy, which is renting a school facility from Fairfax County, Virginia. Conservative activists, as well as the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, have called on the State Department to shut down the private school because of its use of textbooks that promote violence against Jews, Christians, and other non-Muslims.
5/29/2008 | News | PIERRE THOMAS and THERESA COOK
Al Qaeda Supporters' Tape to Call for Use of WMDs
Intelligence and law enforcement sources tell ABC News they are expecting al Qaeda supporters will post a new video on the Internet in the next 24 hours, calling for what one source said is "jihadists to use biological, chemical and nuclear weapons to attack the West."
5/29/2008 | News | Cliff May - Townhall.com
You Must Remember This
There’s an anniversary this week we might do well to recall. On May 29, 1453 – just 555 short years ago -- troops led by Mehmed II broke through the walls of the ancient Christian capital of Constantinople. Mehmed the Conqueror – as he would be known from that day forward -- rode triumphantly into the city on a white horse. Soon, churches would be converted into mosques. Constantinople would become Istanbul. “For the West this was a dark moment,” writes historian Efraim Karsh in his masterful book, Islamic Imperialism. “For Islam it was a cause for celebration. For nearly a millennium Constantinople had been the foremost barrier – physically and ideologically – to Islam’s sustained drive for world conquest and the object of desire of numerous Muslim rulers.”
5/28/2008 | News | Barbara Bradley Hagerty
Some Muslims in U.S. Quietly Engage in Polygamy
Although polygamy is illegal in the U.S. and most mosques try to discourage plural marriages, some Muslim men in America have quietly married multiple wives. No one knows how many Muslims in the U.S. live in polygamous families. But according to academics researching the issue, estimates range from 50,000 to 100,000 people. You can see some of the women involved in polygamous marriages in the lobby of Sanctuary for Families, a nonprofit women's center in New York City. It bursts with color as a dozen women in bright African dresses and head wraps gather for a weekly noon meeting for West African immigrants. The women come each week to this support group where they discuss hard issues, such as domestic abuse, medical problems, immigration hurdles and polygamy. Polygamy is freely practiced in parts of Africa, and almost every one of the women in the group has experienced polygamy firsthand – either as a wife in a plural marriage or having been raised in families with one father who has two or more wives.
5/21/2008 | News | Kenneth R. Timmerman
Iranians Would Welcome Airstrikes, Sources Say
As Barack Obama and John McCain thrash it out over how they would deal with Iran, voices from inside Iran are weighing in with an unusual message: If the United States strikes hard and fast, we will support you. Emissaries from inside Iran have been meeting with Iranian exiles in Europe, the United States, and elsewhere in recent weeks to deliver this provocative message, which they claim comes from pro-U.S. dissidents at the upper-most levels of the regime. “U.S. airstrikes must be powerful and sustained enough to break the myth of the regime’s absolute power and reveal the weakness of the leadership,” a former official who traveled outside of Iran recently said. The United States should target the office of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as well as the headquarters of the Revolutionary Guards Corp, the offices of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and that of his predecessor and rival, Mullah Hashemi-Rafsanjani, Iranian sources say. The goal should be to carry out sustained airstrikes over a 48-72 hour period that would “decapitate” the regime. Such a strike would send a clear message to the Iranian people and to disgruntled officials throughout Iran’s faction-ridden government that the United States is serious about confronting the regime over its bad behavior in Iraq and is willing to strike the leaders responsible for that behavior, the Iranian sources argue.