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Who’d You Rather? Jihad Jane or Irshad Manji

14 hours 25 min ago
Colleen "Jihad Jane" LaRose is a 47 year old Michigan Native who's blonde with beautiful green eyes. Irshad "Suck on This" Manji is a 42 year old Canadian with caramel skin and impressively pointy...

Harvard Students Rebuke Kramer and the U’s Support

Thu, 03/11/2010 - 19:27
Harvard students put together a coalition of sixteen campus groups calling on the university to terminate Martin Kramer's fellowship for his highly problematic suggestion that humanitarian aid to...

Dalai Lama Gives Shout-Out To All His Uighurs

Thu, 03/11/2010 - 02:07
His holiness, the fourteenth Dalai Lama risked the ire of Chinese Authorities when he came out explicitly in support of the Muslim Uyghur minority yesterday, Uighurs have fought for equal rights and...

Racial Privilege or Persecution for Arab Americans

Wed, 03/10/2010 - 09:17
According to the US federal government, this guys is white: Yes, if following the categorization of race in the upcoming Census, which directly takes its taxonomy cues from the Office of Budget...

Biden’s Farce of a ‘Peace Mission’ Too Much For Israelis

Wed, 03/10/2010 - 05:41
Minutes after Joe Biden sang Israel’s praises for willingness to reengage in ‘peace talks’ and promised to confront Iran on it’s behalf, the Israeli government rebuffed the VP with an announcement to...

Shaykh Issues Fatwa, People Get Stoked

Wed, 03/10/2010 - 04:51
In the thriving and exciting world of usul ul-fiqh - Islamic jurisprudence - comes another unbinding legal opinion (fatwa) that is gaining publicity. Pakistani Islamic scholar Dr. Muhammad Tahir...

Guest Post: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? The Butcher of Gaza is

Tue, 03/09/2010 - 18:33
One year after the first anniversary of the war on Gaza during which the Israeli Defense Forces [IDF] murdered 1,400 Palestinians including 400 children, the IDF and war criminal Lt. General Gabi...

World’s Most Ethical Army Vs. The 12 Year Old

Mon, 03/08/2010 - 08:49
The Israeli Criminal Army has imprisoned 12-year old Alhassan Muhtasib of Hebron for the past 9 days. Alhassan, was arrested with his younger brother, Alameer, 7, who was severely beaten by the...

Guest Post: The Hurt Locker’s (Mis)use of Sacred Muslim Symbols

Mon, 03/08/2010 - 04:10
After watching Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker I felt it was necessary to write about what I found to be a careless use of sacred sound design. The Hurt Locker is an Oscar nominated film about a US...

Ziobot Loses Israel Apartheid Week Debate on Al-Jazeera, English

Fri, 03/05/2010 - 15:04
Al-Jazeera, English featured a nice little discussion on Israeli apartheid week. I love that we finally have a channel where the debate is two-to-one against the pro-Israel position. In US...

Auto-Tune-backed Gubernatorial Candidate Loses Primary

Wed, 03/03/2010 - 16:01
Perhaps to prove Jay Z right about the death of auto-tune, the last minute release of a campaign theme song by the Farouk Shami campaign failed to convince democratic party members to give the...

Palestinian Boycott Leader Challenges SF Jewish Federation

Wed, 03/03/2010 - 03:58
Open Letter to Rabbi Doug Kahn by Omar Barghouti, a leader of the international movement to boycott Israel

From the Melbourne Age

Tue, 03/02/2010 - 19:34

Faced With Egypt’s Wall, Gaza Tunnels Go On Sale

Tue, 03/02/2010 - 05:20
A news report by Falasteen Alyoom "فلسطين اليوم" reports that now one can buy a functioning Gaza tunnel for $20,000 instead of $150,000, the ongoing price. It seems that the laws of supply and demand...

Hamas to Participate in “Let’s Move!”

Fri, 02/26/2010 - 17:15
Early Thursday morning, Hamas spokesman Ayman Taha announced the establishment of a fat camp in the Gaza Strip. “We are reaching out to America,” Taha stated. “We’ve witnessed its First Lady’s quest...

Film Review: My Name is Khan

Thu, 02/25/2010 - 10:01
To be of the South Asian persuasion means there are several cultural observations you must oblige to, ideally without much verbal protest: spicy foods, medical degree, a severe lack of emphasis on...

Guest Post: Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon Deserve Civil Rights

Wed, 02/24/2010 - 03:50
Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon face a very uncertain future. They deserve better. When Palestinians were kicked out of their homeland at gun point in 1948, some found a safe haven in Lebanon,...

A racist who wants to stop Palestinian reproduction, and an ad so bad it might just do it

Tue, 02/23/2010 - 01:23
Martin Kramer, a (pretty racist) fellow at Harvard, has outlined measures to curb the Palestinian birth rate. What century do these fuckers live in? And what kind of institution gives a platform for...

I’d Join ADC if Ralph Nader was its President!

Sat, 02/20/2010 - 03:12
We Arab-Americans and friends of the Arab-American community support the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee's noble mission. We believe in ADC's potential to galvanize the community and...

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

Sat, 02/20/2010 - 03:09
In honor of Gil Scott Heron, the original ‘The Revolution will not be televised‘ poet, releasing a new album after a long absence, below is a poem by KABOBfriend Nader Abusumaya in which...