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As promised, President Obama has donated the money he was awarded from his Nobel Peace Prize to charity. The White House released a list of the charities chosen by the President to receive funds from the $1.4 million award money. See below for the full list. The biggest awardees were Fisher House, to provide housing…

My playwright friend Wajahat Ali writes about the Jihad Jane case, in the broader context of why the various cartoon depictions of the Prophet SAW are such a provocation to muslims. Wajahat affirms, but also puts into context, the imperative of free artistic expression, invoking his own experience writing a play about muslim characters: As…

The public option is almost assuredly not going to be in the final package for health reform, and that’s a good thing because it’s existence imperils passage of this historic and incredibly progressive legislation. It represents a huge – and long overdue – leftwards shift for American social policy, despite the public option’s absence. And…

Here in a nutshell is why ethnic profiling is so fundamentally flawed as a means of protecting against terrorism: A petite, blond-haired, blue-eyed high school dropout who allegedly used the nickname JihadJane was identified Tuesday as an alleged terrorist intent on recruiting others to her cause, as federal prosecutors unsealed criminal charges that could send…

The trend of “white right” violence is definitely increasing – we’ve had the abortion doctor murder, the austin suicide plane, and now a shooting at the Pentagon in Washington DC: Officials said the man, indentified as John Patrick Bedell, 36, of the US state of California, died on Friday from head wounds recieved in a…

Consider “My accidental jihad” – an award winning essay by Krista Bremer (a non-muslim) about being married to Ismail Suayah (a muslim of Libyan origin) during Ramadan. The essay is a scathing self-critique, of her difficulty in coping with her husband’s piety during Ramadan. In the essay she is unflinching about her reaction and expectations…

This amazing archeaological find has the potential to rewrite our understanding of human history: a literally prehistoric temple complex in Turkey which, at 11,500 years old, is the oldest known human structure in existence: They call it potbelly hill, after the soft, round contour of this final lookout in southeastern Turkey. To the north are…

Milad mubarak! Like hundreds of millions of muslims worldwide, I honored the Prophet Mohammed SAW last week, finding the anniversary of his birth (by most authoritative sources, 12 Rabi ul Awwal) a time to reflect on my love for him as the Messenger of Islam. Is it controversial to celebrate the milad (birthday) of the…

Recall after the Haiti earthquake, Pat Robertson blamed the Haitians for their misfortunes, invoking the historical libel about Haiti’s founders making a “pact with the devil”. Now, in the wake of this weekend’s earthquake in Chile, Nation of Islam minister Louis Farrakhan has struck the same judgemental tone, calling it a warning to America: “It’s…

The health care summit at the White House has begun – here’s the live video feed from Whitehouse.gov: JOIN THE LIVE CHAT VISIT WHITEHOUSE.GOV mcjoan at dkos had a preview of the summit earlier which takes a pretty pessimistic view of expectations. But I like what I’m hearimng from Sen. Lamar (R-TN) so far, about…
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