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Washington, D.C., February 11, 2015: The Muslim American Society is shocked over the execution style murder of three American Muslim students in Chapel Hill, North Carolina last night, and calls on local and federal authorities to look into the incident as a possible hate crime. The Students, Deah Barakat, 23, his wife Yusor Abu-Salha, 21…
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By Eileen Fleming On Monday at a Likud election rally in Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ignored the increasing congressional efforts to dissuade him from speaking before the U.S. Congress on March 3rd claiming: “A bad deal with Iran is forming in Munich that will endanger Israel’s existence. … Therefore I am determined…
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By Ray Hanania Chapel Hill police have identified the alleged killer of three Muslim Arab students as Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, of 270 Summerwalk Circle. According to police, Hicks was involved in a “dispute” over a parking place at the condominium parking lot with the victims. Hicks is currently being held without bond, and many…
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By Abdennour Toumi Ankara – Turkey — The recent attacks in Paris are but one act in a series of serious threats posed by “homegrown” radicalism from young immigrant Muslim dissenters. This menace has forced Western domestic intelligence to deal with a case that demands vigilant law enforcement on one hand and a general review of Muslim…
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By Abdennour Toumi On Monday, according to local sources of Kurdish media, fighters of the YPG entered the city of Kobani, united with the forces of the Kurdish Alliance, and now together they control 90% of the town and its environs. The city of Kobani has been seen as a major testing-ground for the Kurdish…
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By Ali Younes With the passing of King Abdullah Bin Abdel Aziz, King of Saudi Arabia, in the early hours of Friday, Saudi Arabia has now a new King in Salman Bin Abdel Aziz, the half brother of late King Abdullah. King Salman was born in 1935 and is the 25th son of the Kingdom founder. At…
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Ambassador Riyad H. Mansour, the permanent observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations, will visit Indiana University and speak at its Maurer School of Law on Tuesday, Jan. 20. Mansour will speak on the theme “States of Palestine at the International Arena: A Discussion on Current Events in Palestine,” beginning at 7:30…
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day will be observed in the United States on Jan. 19 this year, but he was born on Jan. 15, 1929. In his manifesto from Birmingham Jail, Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. directly challenged his “fellow clergymen.” By Eileen Fleming I have taken a few liberties with King’s masterpiece, added a…
Detroit’s Muslim community helps those in need during water crisis: Giving water is the best form of charity, according to the Prophet (PBUH) MMCC and Islamic Relief-USA gave $100,000 to Detroit residents this week to help with the water crisis. Over 25,000 Detroit residents have had their water shut off since last year due to aggressive…
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By Ray Hanania As a Christian, no city in the world means more to me than the “Little Town of Bethlehem.” I write about it often, mainly to remind American Christians — many of whom have forgotten the roots of their faith and therefore the spirit of their Christianity — that Bethlehem is a real…
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By Ali Younes According to New York attorney Stanley Cohen, the Islamic State or ISIS will not be interested in negotiating with the Jordanian government to free its captured Jordanian pilot. Not any time soon at least. This is because, he argues, the way Jordan handled the negotiations to save American aid worker Peter Kassig. Jordanian…
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By Eileen Fleming Banksy, the graffiti artist, political activist, film director, and painter depicts 21st century Bethlehem reality onto holiday greeting cards and informational cards with this message: Towering walls and militarized fences now encircle Bethlehem, turning the 4,000-year-old city into a virtual prison for its Palestinian Christian and Muslim citizens. Bethlehem has…
New head of Antiochian Church in America enthroned in New York City by Patriarch of Antioch; Antiochian Patriarch to meet with World and U.S. officials on issues in Syria The second largest Orthodox Christian Church in North America has a new leader, enthroned by the head of one of the oldest churches on earth. On…
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By Eileen Fleming After nearly a year of silence, Israel’s Nuclear Whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu, ‘spoke’ on Wednesday through the uploading of Freedom Now First at his YouTube Channel. Vanunu adds no description, explanation or translation to the nine-minute Israeli TV report which aired on 23 May 2010, just prior to Vanunu returning to 78 days…
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By Eileen Fleming On Tuesday, ABC NEWS filed the AP Report UN Resolution: Israel Must Renounce Nuclear Arms: The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved an Arab-backed resolution calling on Israel to renounce possession of nuclear weapons and put its nuclear facilities under international oversight. The resolution, adopted in a 161-5 vote, noted that Israel is…
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Embed from Getty Images The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom, the U.S. Secretary of State, the High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, and the UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs met in Brussels on December 3, 2014 to assess the current situation in…
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By Eileen Fleming Evil is relatively rare. Ignorance is epidemic and the cure for that is journalism and expression Jon Stewart has reiterated regarding why he produced “Rosewater” which is based on the memoir Then They Came for Me by Maziar Bahari, which recounts Bahari’s 2009 imprisonment by Iran, after an interview with Jason…
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Radio Interview with Arab American publisher Mansour Tadros Mansour Tadros, publisher of The Future News (Al Mustaqbal) in Chicago discusses the ethnic news media and the American Arab community, and challenges small publishers face in addressing and covering the American Arab community in Chicago and the United States. Tadros, Jordanian American, has been publishing his…
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