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In the context of my earlier thoughts about how the muslim community can help combat extremism, one more thing occurs to me; perhaps what is also needed is a rebranding of the War on Terror. You cannot wage war against an emotion or a tactic, and the Bush Administration’s alternative slogan of “Global Struggle Against…

At the White House National Prayer Breakfast this morning, President Obama quoted (among other things) a Hadith of the Holy Prophet Mohammed SAW: We know too that whatever our differences, there is one law that binds all great religions together. Jesus told us to “love thy neighbor as thyself.” The Torah commands, “That which is…

I’d like to highlight one of the essential blogs in the Islamsphere – Muslim Media Watch (MMW). It’s a group weblog that tracks issues related to women and Islam, and features a broad stable of writers. One of the MMW editors, Fatemeh, does a weekly wrap-up of MMW posts at Talk Islam that serves as…

I’ve often dismissed the idea that muslims in the West have any obligation to apologize for or routinely condemn on demand the actions of the extremist minorities who commit acts of terror in the name of the faith they claim to share. The American muslim community fights extremism every day by simply living their lives…

Indeed, change has come to the White House. Our President is able to admit to mistakes: Barack Obama, the US president, has admited he made a “mistake” following the withdrawal of his nominee for US health secretary amid a controversy over unpaid taxes. “I screwed up”, he told NBC news on Tuesday after Tom Daschle, whom the…

UPDATE: Tom Daschle has officially withdrawn his name from consideration. I heard it on Twitter first, actually. It turns out that Tom Daschle has even more explaining to do: Daschle’s tax problems were even more substantial than earlier reported. The report indicates that Daschle’s failure to pay more than $101,000 taxes on the car and…

During the Gaza war, Al Jazeera was the only news outfit able to report on the carnage from the field, by virtue of actually being on-location, while the international media was forced to watch from afar by the Israeli government. Al Jazeera’s innovative “journalism 2.0” reporting was of course an embarrassment for the IDF, whose…

Ali A. Rizvi, a muslim blogger, asks the hard questions: Where are the large-scale protests and outrage from the Muslim community over the senseless deaths and rape of hundreds of thousands of poverty-ridden African Muslims? Why is there such a glaring discrepancy between the Muslim world’s response to the atrocities in Gaza and the atrocities…

President Obama’s email address is the new status symbol in Washington DC – and the circle of who knows his email address is very, very selective indeed. There’s a great article in the NYT about Obama’s email, which includes this gem: Mr. Obama presumably knows not to send his bank account information to those ubiquitous…

Tom Daschle, President Obama’s pick to run the sprawling Department of Health and Human Services, also has some tax issues: Daschle filed amended tax returns for 2005, 2006 and 2007 to reflect additional income for consulting work, the use of a car service and reduced deductions for charitable contributions. He filed the returns after Obama…
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