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A brief interview with an Arab American ex-Marine on the Fort Hood shootings within the context of anti-Arab and -Muslim racism in the U.S. military.

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Brief overview of the socio-economic situation in Egypt, within the context of the NDP's annual conference last week.

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"Many western journalists sum up Arab gay realities with sentences like: "Saudi Arabia: homosexuality punishable by death", "Iraq: gay men killed." Full stop. But gay men are also killed in "civilised" western countries. While homophobia is certainly a problem in Arab countries, like anywhere else, it never overshadows the thriving and lively local gay cultures. Yet no one talks about these cultures. "Cairo: bad", "Damascus: bad", we're told by Ricardo, the Spaniard in the article. Even Dubya and his "Axis of Evil" would envy such eloquence. How ironic that many Lebanese gay men, including myself, actually feel more comfortable in places like Damascus or Amman and go there often in order to escape the Beiruti agitation. There might be no Kylie Minogue nights there, but on the other hand there is a lot less snobbery and less fuss about homosexuality. My friend Ali recently went to Jordan to be wedded to his boyfriend by a Muslim cleric and then spent his honeymoon in Damascus. The advantage of such trips also comes in finding an anonymity one is denied at home."

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"These are the kinds of questions we should be asking, not out of a desire to excuse, but to explain actions that seem beyond words. But I worry that the mood in the US is dimming and turning in a more sinister direction. The questions we will be hearing are: why are Muslims in the military? And, do Muslims even belong in the United States? The allegiances of America's Muslims, all of them and not just those in the military, will be called into question. Once again, we will be judged for an act we didn't commit or condone and have loudly denounced.\n\nAm I being irrational? I don't think so. Every year since 2001 the Washington Post-ABC News poll has asked Americans if they hold negative perceptions of Islam. When the latest poll was released in April 2009, the number was 48%, the highest yet recorded."

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"We are witnessing anew the way in which imperialism and nationalism can intersect to bloodily reconstruct the geography and political economy of whole regions." Afghanistan is falling apart under US/NATO occupation, and Pakistan is not far behind.

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"Gay Imperialism" uses the work of activist Peter Tatchell, founder of Outrage!, as an example of how white gay activists can become complicit with this agenda by painting Islam as inherently homophobic and misogynist, and appointing themselves as the saviours of non-white queers.

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"Unlike the major Arab-American and Muslim organizations, I do not just condemn the killing spree, but I condemn the whole culture and industry of institutionalized violence Fort Hood is but one piece of. Major Hasan was part of that and acted under a similarly deadly logic of the righteousness of self-preservation."

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"Excluded from a political role by Israel and the United States, the European Union (EU) -- the largest aid donor -- hoped "that the provision of assistance and funds to the Palestinians would in turn give donors ammunition to influence American unilateral mediation efforts and Israeli policies on the ground" (173). But "courting the Americans and appeasing Israel" (173) did not have the desired effect. Instead, financial aid became a "fig leaf" (13) for the absence of a political process to resolve the underlying causes of conflict; it subsidized Israeli occupation and colonization, and donors knowingly bankrolled a Palestinian regime that was "authoritarian, unaccountable and repressive" (169) -- and completely dependent on subsidies."

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