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EDITORS COLUMN
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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.
ISLAMOPHOBIA - RESPONSES TO ISLAMOPHOBIA AND EXTREMISM
Click on the Muslims Denounce Terrorism icon on the main page for article collections on this and other topics.
The most recently posted are at the top
How right wing extremists and Islamists are the same, Barbara Hans & Julia Juttner
The American Character, Glenn Greenwald
The problem with calling the Qur’an anti-Semitic, Jonathan Kay
Counter Islamists and Islam: The new religious opposition, H.A. Hellyer
1,600 Palestinians on hunger strike and the world doesn’t even bat an eyelid, David Rose
[url=http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31262.htm]American Atrocities: Not Who We Are? Really?
So Then Who in the Hell Are We? [/url], Dan DeWalt
NYPD surveillance revisited, James Zogby
Arab Spring has washed the region’s appalling racism out of the news, Robert Fisk
Welcome to the asylum, Chris Hedges
The Why of Terrorism, Ray McGovern
Interview with Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) on Music and Faith, Malika Bilal
Outrage as Egyptian lawyer sentenced to 20 lashes in Saudi Arabia, Ekram Ibrahim
Heaven On Earth: A Non-Hysterical History of Shari’ah, Haroon Moghul
The Americanization of Islamism, Mohamed Nimer
Iran: We do not want nuclear weapons, Ali Akbar Salehi
American Islam, Scott Korb
Who Is Watching Who and Why?, Azeem Ibrahim
The Never-Ending Crusade: No Americans were killed on U.S. soil by Islamic extremists in 2011. Why does Islamophobia persist?, Patrick Glennon
A Jihad for Justice: Honoring the Work and Life of Dr. Amina Wadud (PDF)
Catholic Bishops Release Religious Liberty Manifesto Vowing Disobedience to “Unjust Laws”, Sarah Posner
Neighbors Spying on You? New Program Spreading Across the US Takes Neighborhood Watch to Scary New Level, Uzma Kolsy
How the West de-democratised the Middle East , Irfan Ahmad
Liberty and Justice for Non-Muslims, Andrew Rosenthal
Creating the Muslim Manchurian Candidate, John Feffer
Muslims in Yemen demonstrate against killing of American teacher, Mindy Belz
Tariq Ramadan on Europe, Islam & Pluralism (full video of speech & partial transcript)
The Toulouse Shootings: The Ghetto Within, Uri Avnery
Torturing bin Laden, William Saletan
When Americans Kill vs When Muslims Kill, Omid Safi
Speech and the Sacred: Does the Defense of Free Speech Rest on a Mistake about Religion? (PDF), Andrew F. March
Are we about to get embroiled in a nightmare war with Iran?, Noam Chomsky
Why Afghans are turning on their US “Allies”, Eric Margolis
NPR and NYT on Americans v. Afghans, Glenn Greenwald
The Systemic Atrocity of Afghanistan’s Occupation, Ross Caputi
Helping Syria without war, Marc Lynch
How Ayn Rand’s Bizarre Philosophy Made the New Right so Toxic, George Monbiot
How We Cured “The Culture of Poverty,” Not Poverty Itself, Barbara Ehrenreich
Forging a New Relationship Between American Muslims and Law Enforcement, Rabia Chaudry
Prophet Muhammad’s Birthday – To Celebrate or not to Celebrate, Muqtedar Khan
Is Liberalism Islamic?: An Interview with Mustafa Akyol, Haroon Moghul
NYPD Lied About Islamophobic Third Jihad, Hussein Rashid
Islamists’ current dilemma, Tariq Ramadan
Is Iran Really a Threat to the United States?, Omid Safi
Radical U.S. Muslims Little Threat, Study Says, Scott Shane
Islam and homosexuality: straight but narrow
The Grave Threat of “Homegrown Terrorism”, Glenn Greenwald
107 Muslim scholars issue statement calling on members of the Syrian army to disobey the orders of the repressive Assad regime and to desert. The statement said President Bashar al-Assad’s rule in Syria is no longer acceptable.
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“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.” — Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children….This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. — Dwight D. Eisenhower farewell speech to the American people.
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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
