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Hillary Clinton’s desperation to silence divisions in the Democratic Party so she can focus her attacks against Donald Trump comes with a very high price, her critics contend, for many important issues including fighting racism, winning changes to improve immigration, accepting the unacceptable status quo on gun ownership, and preventing peace from overtaking the U.S….
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Anti-EU leaders driven by anti-Muslim, anti-immigration racism in Europe join push to leave EU. “I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him, but for my own part, it was Greek to me.” In politics, making a populist decision that politicians might think it is a big deal, though the domino effect may be drastic for…
Anti-BDS amendment (Boycott, Divest, Sanction) submitted to Defense Authorization Act of 2017 by Illinois Senator Mark Kirk, to support the apartheid movement in Israel discriminating against Christians and Muslims On May 25, 2016, Sen. Mark Kirk, (R-IL) and 16 co-sponsors submitted an anti-BDS amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (S….
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A moral inversion is unfolding in the state of New York By Dezeray Lyn New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo has moved against speech rights for the people of the state he serves by criminalizing any business or individual actively supporting the Boycott Divest Sanction campaign against Israel for various transgressions including the fracturing of international…
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Tony Rezko remains an icon in the American Arab community and it was no surprise that more than 250 people including friends, family and government officials would come together in Chicago recently to celebrate his release from Federal custody recently in Chicago. In addressing the gathering at the Al Hambra Palace on May 12, 2016, Rezko said…
Palestinians commemorate Land Day, Israel’s crimes. From its creation in 1948, Israel has made the conflict in occupied Palestine about the theft of land and the ethnic cleansing of the population of Palestine’s Christians and Muslims. On March 30, 1976, inside Israel, six Palestinians were murdered by Israeli soldiers when they protested Israel’s plans to confiscate…
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Racists set up phony website to defame and libel Muslims in Wheaton. Fake site purports to be website of Wheaton Mosque and is intended to promote hate and Islamophobia The Islamic Center of Wheaton (ICW) is under cyber-attack by an unknown group. A website bearing the same name of ICW is on the web and it contains…
Wheaton College professor Larycia Hawkins defended her actions in arguing that Muslims and Christians believe in the same God, but said she is confident she will prevail. Hawkins was suspended with pay by Wheaton College and is facing a termination hearing By Ray Hanania Wheaton College Political Science Professor Larycia Hawkins said Friday that she…
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Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump has peeled back the hypocrisy of the rightwing conservative Republican Party, exposing hardcore racist views against Muslims and Islam. Many of those standing up to defend Muslims are among the true Christians By Ray Hanania Donald Trump has attracted huge following because of his willingness to speak to the mindset of…
France racism at Arabs grows. Growing racism climate in the continent that earns Corsica nationalism, worried the French authorities By Abdennour Toumi The ugliness of anti-Arab sentiment on the continent has overflowed to the Island of Beauty, Corsica. Last weekend anti-Arab protests broke out in Ajaccio following an ambush of firefighters and police by hooded youth…
The fact that Americans are uneducated is pretty clear from their race-driven politics that usually causes more problems than bring solutions. But worse is the lack of education among the very institutions tasked with educating, like Wheaton College, which declared itself an ignorant bastion of racist stupidity this week By Ray Hanania As a Christian,…
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Teen killings in Chicago have raised questions about Israel’s similar polices in Occupied Palestine, and the biases of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel who has refused to address his abuses not only of African American rights but also his civil rights assaults against American Arabs in Chicago By Ray Hanania More than 13 months ago, a…
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By Mohammed Asad The Magen David Adom, the so-called emergency and ambulance service for the “Democratic” State of Israel, has been proven to be discriminatory and driven by hatred. The MDA has intentionally delayed emergency treatment to Palestinian Christian and Muslim victims and have often allowed the victims to die rather than provide them medical…
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Why is there a difference between the coverage by the mainstream Western and American news media of the terrorism in Paris on Friday Nov. 13 compared to the absence of media coverage of the terrorism in Beirut the day before? The reasons involve a twisted form of journalism applied by Western journalists that distinguishes between…
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In my weekly column at Creators Syndicate, this week, I analyze the factors that may be driving what I believe is the racism that is driving the Western response to terrorism in Paris and Beirut. Why is Daesh/ISIS terrorism in Paris different from Daesh/ISIS terrorism in Beirut? By Ray Hanania It’s a hot topic these…
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AHRC urges the Arab and Muslim American community to be vigilant, and to report suspicious activity to the authorities: In light of the drastic increase of bigoted and misinformed anti- Muslim rhetoric and Islamophobia that recently increased as a result of the horrific terrorist attacks in Paris, AHRC urges the Arab and American community to…
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“Liberty-Equality-Fraternity” is the motto of the French Republic but the spirit it implies is applied selectively in reality. By Abdennour Toumi Paris, France — In October of 2005 neighborhoods in the banlieues of France erupted in violence, the cause of those riots, the deaths of two teenagers Ziad and Bouna, electrocuted on a power transformer…
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Roger Waters, the acclaimed British musician and co-founder of the rock sensation Pink Floyd, is not bullied or intimidated by attacks from the likes of washed-up singer Dionne Warwick (“Walk on By”) or the foul-mouthed radio racist Howard Stern who stains the America’s Got Talent TV series each week. He’s standing by the civil rights tradition…
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