Category: Spotlight

Threats against Bridgeview Mosque investigated (Updated)

January 22, 2015September 24, 2018 rayhanania 3 Comments

By Ray Hanania UPDATE 2, Friday: Bridgeview Police released the following statement: Bridgeview Police today interviewed two individuals believed to be involved in an exchange of comments on Facebook that involved allegations of threats made against the Bridgeview Mosque. Both suspects were interviewed at the Bridgeview Police Headquarters. The names of the persons of interest…

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Moderate Arab World mourns loss of Saudi King Abdullah

January 22, 2015September 24, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

By Ray Hanania Saudi Arabia’s moderate leader and monarch, King Abdullah ibn Abdul Aziz al-Saud, 90, who has ruled the powerful Arabian kingdom for nearly a decade since 2005 when he succeeded his brother King Fahd, died Friday. His Majesty King Abdullah was succeeded by his brother, Crown Prince Salman who was named the kingdom’s new…

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The war is in English and the Arabs are losing

January 22, 2015June 12, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

By Ray Hanania Wars are fought with many armaments. Some of them blow up. Others cause things to blow up. And still more can undermine entire nations simply with a few words. In the Arab-Israeli war, the Arabs are losing. They have been losing for a long time, but they are losing even more, now….

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Secret Audio tape Reveals Coup Plot by ex-Yemen President and Shia rebels

January 21, 2015January 21, 2015 Ali Younes No Comments

By Ali Younes A secret audio tape was released yesterday that showed a link between former president of Yemen Ali Abdullah Saleh discussing events and steps to be taken by the Shia rebels the “ Houthis” in order to complete their takeover of the republic of Yemen. The tape which was first uncovered by Al…

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Watch for growing Israeli-Iranian & hezbollah tension in Syria

January 21, 2015June 12, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

By Ali Rizk In August 2013 Israeli defense minister Moshe Yaalon said the following to visiting US joint chief of staff Martin Dempsey: “We must also be prepared for a long conflict and instability in Syria. We cannot let the Tehran-Damascus-Beirut axis of evil to win this fight”. Over a year has passed since then,…

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The Death of Reason: American bias when it comes to Justice

January 21, 2015January 21, 2015 Jafar Ramini No Comments

By Jafar M. Ramini The late John F. Kennedy, the only President of the United States of America since WW2 with any integrity, once said about justice, “We cannot negotiate with people who say what’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.” (The White House, July 25, 1961) Let’s try to equate this with…

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Obama calls for end of racism against Arabs

January 20, 2015January 20, 2015 rayhanania No Comments

By Ray Hanania President Barack Obama delivered his 6th State of the Union Address before a joint session of the U.S. Congress and vowed to use his power of veto to block any partisan effort to undermine the economic gains, social changes, healthcare advances and even foreign policy strategies. Obama specifically called on Americans to…

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Freedom of the Press, is Israel listening?

January 20, 2015September 24, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

By Ray Hanania U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivered opening remarks to attendees at the Journalists’ Security Conference held this week in Washington D.C. Kerry, who has been far more principled than his Bush administration predecessors, reminded the group that a free press ensures that flow of accurate information, but the price has been high in…

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Strawberry harvest continues in Gaza Strip, Palestine

January 20, 2015 Mohammed Asad No Comments

By Mohammed Asad Palestine Strawberries from the Gaza Strip are ranked as being among the world’s best. Every year, the Palestine Strawberry industry employs hundreds of farmers to harvest the strawberry crops to pick, package and ship the popular fruit to locations around the world. Despite exporting restrictions imposed by Israel’s military occupation, which controls the flow of…

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Bobby Jindal Shows his Racism,Ignorance ,Should Apologize to Muslims

January 19, 2015June 12, 2019 Ali Younes 1 Comment

By Ali Younes Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal finally spoke the truth and showed his true colors during his recent interview with CNN when he decried and insulted Muslims and Islam. The truth Jindal revealed was not about Islam or Muslim as he thinks he did, rather, it was about his racist and twisted views of…

Ali Younes, American Arabs, Bloggers, Commentary, Spotlight, US Arab Politics

Celebrating the Baptism of Christ on the Jordan River

January 18, 2015January 18, 2015 Maria Khoury No Comments

By Maria C. Khoury, Ed. D. It was simply a most glorious celebration of the Epiphany on the Jordan River today according to the Old Julian calendar. There were hundreds of priests, nuns and thousands of people from all walks of life coming to the precious site where over 2,000 years ago “…the heavens were…

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Netanyahu exploits Charlie Hebdo for his own motives

January 17, 2015January 18, 2015 rayhanania No Comments

By Amer Sabaileh When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s attended the march against terrorism in Paris last week in the wake of terrorist attack against French satirist newspaper Charlie Hebdo, he was in reality marching for his own agendas, not against terrorism. His Paris appearance was critically designed to position himself as a direct partner…

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I Am Not Charlie Hebdo: I Am Not the Terrorists Either

January 15, 2015August 20, 2019 rayhanania 1 Comment

By Ray Hanania The absence of our story as Arab-Americans may explain why so many Americans hate Arabs and Muslims, especially in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo Massacre. Most Americans lump Arabs and Muslims into one category of spite because, to be honest, most Americans are uneducated and ignorant about the facts. I blame…

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Zionism is the cause of Middle East violence

January 12, 2015January 12, 2015 Jafar Ramini 2 Comments

By Jafar M. Ramini In the last 125 years, Zionism has enjoyed what I would call ‘a golden age’. They had a plan. They had the finances. They had the cunning. They had brute force and they were not bashful about using it. A group of Atheists looking for a destination to put down roots…

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Paris in Crisis: A clash of aberration

January 11, 2015September 24, 2018 Abdennour Toumi No Comments

By Abdennour Toumi Ankara – Turkey — I thought the West had finally gained some understanding of Arabs and Muslims in the aftermath of the 9/11 tragedy a decade ago. For instance Americans attended Arabic classes en masse at any nearby community college or state university program. Their interest greatly increased book sales about Arabs and…

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Charlie Hebdo, terrorism and the debate on morality

January 10, 2015June 12, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

By Ray Hanania When human life is lost, it is difficult to have an unemotional discussion about the issues that might be involved when morality clashes with emotions. That’s what happened when a group of terrorists murdered 12 people in an attack on the offices of a satire newspaper in Paris last week, and then…

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Winter storm gathers over Occupied Palestine

January 10, 2015 Mohammed Asad 1 Comment

By Mohammed Asad A winter storm brought unusually cold weather and snow and rain to Occupied Palestine this past week. Snow blanketed much of the Holy Land adding a nice touch to the Orthodox Christmas which was celebrated throughout occupied Palestine. Hit hardest were residents of the Gaza Strip which was devastated by Israel’s war…

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Western Media should not treat Islam as a target of its insults in the name of freedom of press

January 10, 2015January 10, 2015 Ali Younes 13 Comments

By Ali Younes Muslims and Islamic organizations across the world condemned in strongest terms, and rightly so, the massacre against the journalists and editors of the satirist French Magazine Charlie Hebdo, even when at the same time disagreed and disapproved with Charlie Hebdo’s insults against the Muslim faith. Western media acts free of any legal…

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