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Al-Ahram Weekly | Focus | Being Muslim at the wrong time in America
"Post 9/11, America has declared war on Islam with the FBI in the lead at home. It notoriously targets the vulnerable, entraps them with paid informants, inflates bogus charges, spreads them maliciously through the media, then intimidates juries to convict and sentence innocent men and some women to long prison terms. Justice is nearly always denied. At times wilful killings are committed. The Detroit Muslims are their latest victims."
The Invention of the Jewish People
"The Jewish people were forced from the Holy Land by the Romans and wandered Europe for two thousand years until they could reclaim their rightful homeland.
Even when I was a kid, that story didn’t sound quite right. I began to read about Jewish populations in places they weren’t supposed to be--China, Ethiopia, Central Asia, India. Not only that, but also Jews tend to resemble the people they live among. That didn’t quite fit the standard biblical narrative and the story of the diaspora. If we Jews are all—but for a few converts along the way—descended from David and Solomon, how come there are so many holes in the story?"
stuff white people do: mistake greeks for arabs, arabs for muslims, and muslims for terrorists
Aaron Glantz: Fort Hood Shootings: Soldiers Often 'Racialize' to Cope
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.
The Chica-Iranian Project, Orientalism Gone Wrong in Aztlan: A Performance Photo Essay on the Dangers of Ethnic Profiling in the Post 9/11 Era
Can you tell a Chicano apart from an Iranian?
'I am not White': for many light-skinned Blacks, identity is more than skin deep | Ebony | Find Articles at BNET
"It was one of countless incidents in which Lowder, now 33, was mistaken for being White. 'I've been pulled over with my boyfriends because I looked like a little teenage White girl in a car with a Black man,' says Lowder, who is the fairest of her siblings. The reaction she gets from White Americans who discover that she's Black and biracial ranges from intense anger to firecracker curiosity. 'I become the great interpreter,' says Lowder, who is flooded with questions. 'Why do Black people steal? Can Black people tan? Why are the bottoms of their hands and feet pink?' she's been asked. 'But if I tell a Black person about my White father, they don't ask me to explain White people to them.' "
Tampa police: Marine reservist attacked Greek priest he mistook for terrorist - St. Petersburg Times
TAMPA — Marine reservist Jasen Bruce was getting clothes out of the trunk of his car Monday evening when a bearded man in a robe approached him.
That man, a Greek Orthodox priest named Father Alexios Marakis, speaks little English and was lost, police said. He wanted directions.
What the priest got instead, police say, was a tire iron to the head. Then he was chased for three blocks and pinned to the ground — as the Marine kept a 911 operator on the phone, saying he had captured a terrorist.
Alexios Marakis Assaulted: Greek Orthodox Priest Attacked By Marine Reservist In Fit Of Anti-Muslim Hysteria
It's not for nothing that General George Casey warned against an anti-Muslim backlash in the wake of the Fort Hood massacre. But a whole slew of childlike nimrods, spurred to action by Casey vowing that it would be "a shame if our diversity became a casualty," have taken the stage to decry such concerns as "political correctness." Michelle Malkin complained that this was worshiping "the false god of diversity." Pat Robertson demanded that Muslims be treated as "members of some fascist group."
Via Think Progress:
Alexios Marakis, a Greek Orthodox priest visiting the U.S., got lost in Tampa and tried to stop and ask directions from Marine reservist Jasen D. Bruce. But instead of offering help, "Bruce struck the priest on the head with a tire iron." The reservist believed Marakis, who spoke limited English, was an Arab terrorist. Bruce chased the priest for three blocks, "and even called 911 to say that an Arabic man tried to rob him."
Donaldson Institute Study Details Struggles of Korean Adoptees - NYTimes.com
This is the result when people like Angelina Jolie collect/steal babies from other countries.
Fort Hood shootings: Again we will be judged for acts we didn't commit | Moustafa Bayoumi | World news | The Guardian
"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."
Mixed Race Americans Picture A 'Blended Nation' : NPR
"The 2000 U.S. census was the first to give Americans the option to check more than one box for race. Nearly 7 million people declared themselves to be multiracial that year, a number that's expected to shoot up in the 2010 count. As more of the nation's population identifies itself as being of mixed race, the authors of a new book say Americans' traditional ideas of racial identity are in for a challenge."
Demystifying Hasan in Three Parts | KABOBfest
"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."
LAU | IWSAW: Al-Raida Issue # 116-117
Winter/Spring 2007 issue of Al-Raida Journal (Lebanese American University, Beirut). Issue exclusively focused on Arab women in diaspora.
altmuslimah.com - Book "Islam Needs a Sexual Revolution": Two views of a sexual revolution
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