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RAMADAN
The Fiqh Council of North America (FCNA) and the European Council for Fatwa and Research (ECFR) have used a Shar’ia compliant method to determine the 2010 Ramadan and Eid calendars. On behalf of FCNA and ECFR, ISNA announces the first day of Ramadan to begin on Wednesday August 11, 2010 and Eid ul-Fitr will be Friday September 10, 2010.
ACTION- There are many items listed in our ACTION section that allow individuals to take a stand on important issues. Some of these issues of importance to the Muslim community have very surprisingly received little attention. We update this with new action alerts regularly.
“Do not be people without minds of your own, saying that if others treat you well you will treat them well, and that if they do wrong you will do wrong to them. Instead, accustom yourselves to do good if people do good and not to do wrong (even) if they do evil.”
—Muhammad, son of Abdullah, may peace and the blessings of God be upon him
CURRENT NEWS - July 2010
We will make every effort to post news and articles of particular concern to Muslims in America and the West. The most recent will be at the top of the page.
—Burning the Qur’an? ‘Wherever they burn books, they will in the end Burn Human Beings’, Juan Cole
—IDF Report Confirming Goldstone’s Key Findings Is Suppressed Inside Israel, Max Blumenthal
—The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (with video), Adam Horowitz
—Furqan Dogan, The Forgotten American, Roger Cohen
—Will House Democrats Oppose a Jobless War Supplemental?, Robert Naiman
—Wikileaks’ Afghanistan Trove to Rival Ellsberg’s Pentagon Papers?, Richard Silverstein
—Wikileaks Afghanistan leak, Glenn Greenwald
—Resolution Green-Lighting Israeli Strikes on Iran Introduced by House Republicans , Jamal Abdi
— Obama’s Afghan war in perspective, Gary Leupp
—Goldstone was right
—We Who Advocate Peace, Cammilo Mac Bica
—The heroism of Shirley Sherrod, Glenn Greenwald
—An Appeal to the Jewish people from Nobel Laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire
—Bombshell Report: 550 IDF Officers And Soldiers Interrogated About Possible War Crimes In Gaza, Max Blumenthal
—The Incredible Shrinking American City, Gordon Young (Flint MI)
—Top Secret America: A hidden world, growing beyond control, Dana Priest & Wm. Arkin
—The motive behind whistle-blower prosecutions, Glenn Greenwald
—Netanyahu admits on leaked video that he deceived US to destroy Oslo accord, Jonathan Cook
—The Unchallenged Power of the Israel Lobby, James Abourezk
—15 Mind-Blowing Facts About Wealth And Inequality In America
—NYT Ties Turkish Group to ‘Terrorism’–by Mixing It Up With a Different Group, Alex Kane
—Obama’s New Policy on Islam and Terrorism Hits a Roadblock, Afshan Qureshi
—Cultural history of the Crusades in 2010 United States, Zainab Cheema
—Why telling Muslims what they believe is a bad idea
—Octavia Nasr firing from CNN
—Does Israel Make Us Safer?, Thaddeus Russell
— Separating Church and Hate: Irrationality and Anti-Muslim Stereotyping, Cynthia Boaz
—Securing the Homeland, Javeed Akhter
—NY Times ‘Discovers’ $200-Million American Jewish Settler Funding Network, Richard Silverstein
—Egyptian Qur’anic scholar Nasr Abu Zayd has died
—Israel: A sinking ship, John Mearsheimer
—Lebanon’s top Shiite cleric Fadlallah dies at 75
—Poll: 26% Of U.S. Clueless On Who We Declared Independence From
—Steele blames Obama for Afghanistan, Defends Iraq War, Juan Cole
—The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives by Gilbert Achcar, Tariq Ali
—Fear: My IFC Mini-Doc on the Tea Party, Max Blumenthal
—Charles Krauthammer’s propaganda on Times Square bomber, Glenn Greenwald
—Suicide bombers strike Sufi shrine in Pakistan
— We can’t afford war, Amy Goodman
—WorldNetDaily Warns Bible Might Predict Destruction of Saudi Arabia, Richard Bartholomew
—Turkey Forbids Israeli Military Overflights, Juan Cole
CURRENT NEWS - June 2010
— The Anguish of the Age: Emotional Reactions to Collapse, Robert Jensen
—BP welcomes you to the apocalypse, Mark Morford
—Did 9/11 Justify the War in Afghanistan?: Using the McChrystal Moment to Raise a Forbidden Question, Prof. David Ray Griffin
—Veiled Truths: the rise of political Islam in the West, Marc Lynch
—How many Americans are targeted for assassination?, Glenn Greenwald
—Elena Kagan: Of Jews, Muslims, and Islamophobic Conspiracy Theories, Adam Serwer
—Video: Israel is spying in and on the U.S.
—The CIA Performed Human Experiments on Prisoners Under Bush
—New Report Reveals How Bush Torture Program Involved Human Experimentation
—Teaching Totalitarianism in the Public Schools, John W. Whitehead
—What I learned about America from visiting 100 mosques, Frankie Martin
—What counts as abetting terrorists?, David Cole
—Getting out of Palestine, M. Shahid Alam
—Cause and effect in the war on terror, Glenn Greenwald
—Muslim advocacy group criticizes FBI for questioning of 5 SoCal Muslims
—Gulf oil spill: A hole in the world, Naomi Klein
—Sitting on a Tinder Box: Former Pakistani Ambassador to Great Britain, Akbar Ahmed, Discusses Homegrown Terrorism
—Journey into America, past and present, Akbar Ahmed
—Unveiling religion in the public sphere, Heather Laird
—GOP Senate candidate calls for the violent overthrow of the U.S. government and a “return” to Biblical Law.
—US opposes ICC bid to make ‘aggression’ a crime under international law
—Are Foreign Lives of Equal Worth to Ours?, Adil E. Shamoo
—Genocide Verdicts in Srebrenica Killings
—‘Takin’ it to the Streets’ expecting 20,000 in Chicago’s Marquette Park, Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah
—The strange and consequential case of Bradley Manning, Adrian Lamo and WikiLeaks, Glenn Greenwald
—Israeli law to criminalize advocates of boycotts, inside or outside of Israel, Cecilie Surasky
—Afghanistan: The Longest Lost War, James Petras
—Ethnic Cleansing in Kyrgyzstan - More American Chickens Come Home to Roost, Ted Rall
—Obama Changes Course on Islam, Hussein Rashid
CURRENT NEWS - May 2010
—NASA satellites view oil spill over time video
—Half a Million Displaced Iraqis Face Grim Future In Squalid Squatter Camps
—Mohammed Abed al-Jabri Moroccan scholar dies
—Choosing to wear hijab
—Is the U.S. Government Planning War to Quell the Tide of Economic Unrest?
—Dick Cheney’s Song of America
—U.S. Defence Spending Far Outpaces Rest of the World
—Targeting the Free Gaza Flotilla
—‘A battle for the high seas. And the high ground’
—Gaza Flotilla Drives Israel Into a Sea of Stupidity
—Memorial Day 2010: Corporations Profit from Permanent War
—Why is Israel afraid of a few boats?
—Neocon Vampires Sink Their Fangs Into the Tea Parties
—It’s Not a Tea Party, Silly, It’s a Rebellion
—America’s Muslims: Guilty Until Proven Innocent
—Religion gone global: an interview with Reza Aslan
—5 Essential Facebook Privacy Tips
—Israel offered Nukes to Racist South Africa for Use on Black Neighbors
—How One Palestinian Village Started a Non-Violent Resistance Movement
—Mosque pray-ins against segregation of the sexes are springing up in U.S.
—Pakistan: Obama’s drone blitz
—Media conservatives enraged that Brennan used the Arabic word for Jerusalem
—Draw Muhammad Day Predictably Descends into Hate Fest
—Army has not addressed harassment complaints of Muslim soldier
—US Funds Israel’s Apartheid Roads Plan
—AIPAC and the Israel Lobby: A Graphic Retrospective
—Helen Thomas interview on Real News
—The goals of Ahmedinejad
—Pray to Your God For Us: Christians on Jacksonville City Council Stir Anti-Muslim Sentiments
—$100 million mosque planned in NYC
—Rearrange Your Head: An Interview with American Muslim Convert and Memoirist G. Willow Wilson
—Noam Chomsky Has ‘Never Seen Anything Like This’ (current political climate in U.S.)
—More Than 53% of Your Tax Payment Goes to the Military
—More cause and effect in the War against Terrorists
—Times Square bomb suspect arrested in New York
Previous news items are here
EDITORS COLUMNISLAMOPHOBIA - RESPONSES TO ISLAMOPHOBIA AND EXTREMISM
NOTE: We have had as part of our Muslim Voices against Terrorism and Extremism resources a section on responses to Islamophobia. This was in five parts: - Responses to Claims Made ABOUT Islam and Muslims in General - Responses to Claims Made ABOUT Qur’an Verses, Arabic Terms, Prophet Muhammad - Responses to False Claims ABOUT Muslim Individuals & Organizations & Incidents Involving Muslims - Responses to Actual Extremist Statements & Incidents of Extremism or violence BY Muslims - Responses to Claims Made BY Specific Individuals and Organizations About Muslims. Because of a restriction in the possible length of articles, we were unable to organize these in a more user-friendly manner. Our webmaster has now resolved this problem, and we have combined all these five sections into one section. The entries are alphabetical, and it should now be much easier to locate a response to a particular issue, incident, or individual. In order to keep load time down for our readers, this single resource will still be divided into two sections: A to L, and M to Z. A Control-F search for the name, subject, or incident should help you navigate this new section easily. Every attempt has been made to cross reference as much as possible. Sheila Musaji 3/5/2010.
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MUSLIMS DENOUNCE TERRORISM - Simply click on this logo on the homepage to go to a lengthy collection of Muslim denunciations of terrorism, extremism, and violence. Also includes collections of responses to claims about Islam and Muslims, resources about Islamophobia, and general resources on many topics. If you would like to place this icon on your website, please contact us and we will send you the artwork file. We have had a quantity of these made up in “Euro-style” 4 X 6” oval bumper stickers. We would like to have these seen on cars everywhere, and so are making them available at the best price possible. Contact us to purchase these at $1 each.
Articles from print issues of TAM going online. You may have noticed that we have been able to get volunteers to help get all of the old articles from the print issues of TAM scanned, retyped, and edited, and are working hard to get these online a few at a time. Wherever you see an * after an article that is one of the old issues from 1989 to 1995. What is fascinating is how many are still relevant.
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THE GOLDEN RULE
— Brahmanism: This is the sum of duty: Do naught unto others which would cause you pain if done to you.: Mahabharata 5:1517
— Buddhism: Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.: Udana Varga 5:18
— Christianity: All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.: Matthew 7:12
— Confucianism: Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others that you would not have them do unto you.: Analects 15:23
— Islam: No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother what which he desires for himself. Sunnah
— Judaism: What is hateful to you, do not to your fellowmen. That is the entire Law; all the rest is commentary.: Talmud, Shabbat 31:a
— Taoism: Regard your neighbor’s gain as your own gain, and your neighbor’s loss as your own loss.: T’ai Shag Kan Ying P’ien
— Zoroastrianism: That nature alone is good which refrains from doing unto another whatsoever is not good: for itself. : Dadistan-i-dinik 94:5
FINANCIAL COST OF WARS IN IRAQ & AFGHANISTAN
Posted by Sheila Musaji at July 29, 2010.