By Fareed Zakaria (welcome back, Fareed Zakaria). The Daily Star Underneath the headlines of the presidential campaign, there are growing signs that we are moving toward another war in the Middle East. This week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu scolded the United States for refusing to draw a “red line” […]
The United States and the Muslim Brotherhood are not as far apart as they can sometimes seem, writes Bassem Hassan AL AHRAM WEEKLY The Egyptian presidential race kept many people on their toes in anticipation of the changes it would bring, among others things to Egyptian-American relations. But two months […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — We strongly condemn the brutal murder of the United States ambassador to Libya and three of the embassy employees. In order for peace to reign throughout […]
By Paul Kokoski For centuries the practice of naming one’s child after a saint was almost second nature. Typically, Catholics named their child after the saint on whose day he was born. Over the past few decades, however, the invasion of secularism and moral relativism has worked to undermine the […]
Source: The Washington Post By Qasim Rashid As with many of you, my Twitter feed spiked Wednesday with tweets about an anti-Islam filmand ensuing murder of U.S. Ambassador to Libya […]
By EILEEN SULLIVAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal authorities have identified a Coptic Christian in southern California who is on probation after his conviction for financial crimes as the key figure behind the anti-Muslim film that ignited mob violence against U.S. embassies across the Mideast, a U.S. law enforcement […]
Source: The New York Times RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil’s government has enacted one of the Western Hemisphere’s most sweeping affirmative action laws, requiring public universities to reserve half of their admission spots for the largely poor students in the nation’s public schools and vastly increase the number of university students […]
U.S. warns of rising threat of violence amid outrage over anti-Islam video By the CNN Wire Staff updated 10:19 PM EDT, Thu September 13, 2012 Protesters chant slogans during a march to the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, on Thursday, September 13. One protester was killed in clashes when Yemeni security […]
by David Frum, The Daily Beast. Mitt Romney has received much (deserved) criticism for his maladroit comments on the 9/11 embassy attacks. But you know what? There is a critique to be made of the Obama administration’s approach to Islamism, especially in Egypt – and it doesn’t require anyone to […]
Source: Asia Times The attack on the US consulate in Benghazi may have been just an out-of-control protest against a crude movie produced by an Israeli-American certified Islamophobe – or a determined response to the death by drone of al-Qaeda number 2 (and former “freedom fighter”), the Libyan Abu Yahya […]
Credit: TOI Obama vows to ‘bring to justice’ envoy’s killers, sends Marines to Libya BENGHAZI: The US dispatched an elite group of Marines to Tripoli on Wednesday after the mob attack that killed the US ambassador and three other Americans. Officials were investigating whether the rampage was a backlash to […]
WASHINGTON: An assessment of the costs and benefits of attacking Iran says U.S. military strikes probably would trigger Iranian retaliation that carried risks of igniting all-out war in the Middle […]
Source: Rochester Homepage.net By: Ashley Zilka On Tuesday, Rochester’s Muslim community chose to promote peace by holding a blood drive. Attackers in Libya reacted in a different way killing four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens. “Yesterday we just had a blood drive. Muslims for Life. It was […]
Source: Yahoo news The deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya may have been a planned operation and not a spontaneous protest that turned violent, U.S. officials told the New York Times and CNN on Wednesday. Initial reports suggested that protesters in Benghazi, Libya, were angry about an online video […]
He wrote: Willard Mitt Romney @MlTTR0MNEY I demand justice for the events in Benghazi. The Liberian people should pay a steep price for their actions. Evidently the guy does not know the difference between the Liberian people and the Libyan people. Should someone like this become President of the USA? […]
By Atifa Ahmed, Calgary Source: Calgary Herald Re: “Imam accused of planting evidence in Pakistan Qur’an burning case against Christian girl,” Herald Online, Sept. 2. As a Canadian Muslim, I am ashamed of what my fellow Muslims are up to, but as a mother and as a professional who works […]
Former US president says American influence in the Mideast waning, US electoral process ‘corrupt’ The Times of Israel: US influence in the Middle East has never been weaker and prospects for a peace settlement between Israel and the Palestinians are grim, former US president Jimmy Carter warned on Tuesday. He […]
An extreme American film that ridicules the Prophet Mohammed and calls Islam a “cancer” provokes violence across Muslim countries. BY Sam Kiley SKY NEWS If there was ever a propaganda […]
Europeans hold strongly negative views about GOP contender but Obama’s favourability poor in Pakistan and Middle East. The reputation of the US in Europe risks sinking back to Bush-era levels […]
I was working with a Swiss NGO in Kosovo on 9/11. I saw a ‘News Alert’ on my PC that a plane hit the World Trade Center in New York. Then I saw a second ‘News Alert’ that a second plane hit the second World Trade Center Tower. I decided […]