New York (Tomdispatch.com) – Anti-Muslim activists in the United States were operating in a “post-truth era” and putting out “alternative facts” long before those phrases entered the language. For the last decade they have been spreading provable falsehoods through their well-organized network of publications and websites. A major theme of those falsehoods is telling the […]
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Archives for 2018
Love in the Qur’an: 19:96
Despite the negative messaging nowadays about the Qur’an (the scripture of the Muslims) among the haters, it is a book replete with love, mercy, warmth and peace (to the extent that Muslims are bewildered by the odd opinions of it among outsiders–most of whom have never read it). My new book, out October 9, explores […]
Orwell knew: we willingly buy the screens that are used against us
Ann Arbor (Aeon) – Sales of George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 (1949) have spiked twice recently, both times in response to political events. In early 2017, the idea of ‘alternative facts’ called to mind Winston Smith, the book’s protagonist and, as a clerk in the Ministry of Truth, a professional alternator of facts. And in […]
Trump Passive-Aggressive Offer to Meet Iranians Rebuffed b/c he is “Unreliable”
At a news conference Monday with the prime minister of Italy, Trump blurted out that he was willing to meet with Iranian president Hassan Rouhani any time and without preconditions. “No preconditions. No. They want to meet, I’ll meet. Anytime they want. Anytime they want. It’s good for the country, good for them, good for […]
Palestinian Teen Ahed Tamimi: Israelis should put Selves in My Place, Recover their Humanity
Nabi Saleh (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi said Monday she was deeply changed by her eight-month sentence in an Israeli jail for slapping two soldiers, but does not regret any of her actions. Tamimi, who was 16 when she was arrested in December for hitting and kicking soldiers in front of her […]
Israeli Author Yuval Noah Harari Refuses Honor, Protesting Nation-State Law
Israeli author Yuval Noah Harari has refused to be honoured by the Israeli consulate in Los Angeles, USA, in protest against Israel’s nation-state law. Harari, who authored the bestselling novel “Sapians: A Brief History of Humankind”, called the bill an “erosion of Israel’s basic liberal norms,” Arutz Sheva reported. Harari’s comments came after the Israeli […]
Right Wing Hindu Gov’t of India Strips 4 mn Muslims of Citizenship
Guwahati, India (AFP) – India on Monday effectively stripped four million people in Assam of citizenship, sparking fears of mass deportations of Muslims from the northeastern state. A new draft register of citizens includes only those able to prove they were in Assam before 1971, when millions fled Bangladesh’s war of independence into the state, […]
‘Quiet Skies’: US Latest Spying Program on Unsuspecting Air Passengers
The teams document whether passengers fidget, use a computer, have a “jump” in their Adam’s apple or a “cold penetrating stare,” among other behaviors, according to the records. A Boston Globe expose has revealed that the federal air marshals are tracking the profiles of unsuspecting U.S. citizens who aren’t involved in a crime or are […]
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