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Understanding Islam On Women

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By Hakim Ouansafi
June 10, 2009 - MidWeek

Editor’s note: Hakim Ouansafi is the president and chairman of the Muslim Association of Hawaii.

In his column “Just What We Need, Islam Day” (May 20), Jerry Coffee argues against having a state-sponsored Islam Day based on his (mis)understanding of Islam’s position on women.

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Torture, the painful truth

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It may be a blow to our self-image, but torture has been part of the American way for decades.
By Ben Ehrenreich
June 15, 2009

Perhaps we protest too much. Torture, after all, is a venerable American tradition. If not quite as homespun as apple pie or lynching, it is at least as old as our imperial aspirations. We were waterboarding captives in one of our earliest wars of occupation, the Philippine-American War, which cost as many as 1 million civilian lives. In 1902, Teddy Roosevelt himself wrote with laconic praise of "the old Filipino method."

 

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The justifications of the torturer

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A discussion with an Egyptian State Security officer raises questions and suggests a few answers.
By Alaa Al-Aswany
May 31, 2009
Writing From Cairo --

Some years ago, I was invited to a relative's wedding, and at the wedding, I sat next to one of the bridegroom's relatives. He introduced himself to me by saying: "My name is such-and-such, police officer."
 
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Biden's visit is a sign that Obama plans to make the region (Afghanistan) an immediate priority

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http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1870885,00.html

 

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Ralph Nader, Cynthia McKinnet, Barak Obama

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Muslim Voters in 2000 choose to veto Ralph Nader, read his message to Bush below[1], and they voted 84% for Bush.
Muslim Voters in 2008 choose to veto both Ralph Nader, and Cynthia McKinney[2], and voted 94% for Obama [3].

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Obama on the Attack on Gaza by Joshua Frank

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As President-Elect Barack Obama vacationed in Hawaii on December 26, stopping off to watch a dolphin show with his family at Sea Life Park, an Israeli air raid besieged the impoverished Gaza Strip, killing at least 285 people and injuring over 800 more.

It was the single deadliest attack on Gaza in over 20 years and Obama’s initial reaction on what could be his first real test as president was "no comment." Meanwhile, Israel has readied itself for a land invasion, amassing tanks along the border and calling up 6,500 reserve troops.

On Sunday’s Face the Nation, Obama’s Senior Adviser David Axelrod explained to guest host Chip Reid how an Obama administration would handle the situation, even if it turns for the worst.

 

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Robert Fisk: Why bombing Ashkelon is the most tragic irony

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How easy it is to snap off the history of the Palestinians, to delete the narrative of their tragedy, to avoid a grotesque irony about Gaza which – in any other conflict – journalists would be writing about in their first reports: that the original, legal owners of the Israeli land on which Hamas rockets are detonating live in Gaza.

 

That is why Gaza exists: because the Palestinians who lived in Ashkelon and the fields around it – Askalaan in Arabic – were dispossessed from their lands in 1948 when Israel was created and ended up on the beaches of Gaza. They – or their children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren – are among the one and a half million Palestinian refugees crammed into the cesspool of Gaza, 80 per cent of whose families once lived in what is now Israel. This, historically, is the real story: most of the people of Gaza don't come from Gaza.

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Explaining the legitimacy of demonstrating in Islamic Shari`ah

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Explaining the legitimacy of demonstrating in Islamic Shari`ah.
The prominent Saudi Scholar, Dr. Muhammad al-Ahmari states:

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Gaza

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Picking up the pieces (English)

Children are killed (Arabic)

Bombardment

 

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Letter published in Tuesday 25th of Nov Star Bulletin

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www.starbulletin.com/editorials/20081124_Letters_to_the_Editor.html

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