Posts Tagged ‘Anti-Muslim Bigotry’
Memoirs of Mulla Abdul Salam Zaeef
Reuters | By Myra MacDonald | 10 Feb 2010 “My Life with the Taliban” – on study and Islamic values In “My Life with the Taliban”, Abdul Salam Zaeef — who fought with the mujahideen against the Soviets in Afghanistan and later served in the Taliban government before it was ousted in 2001 — writes of how he longed [...]
US/NATO “Hunters” Killed Hundreds of Civilians
Pravda.ru | By Lisa Karpova | 27 July 2010 Troops in Afghanistan Had Special Group to Exterminate "Terrorists" Hundreds of civilians were killed without public and official knowledge by coalition troops in Afghanistan. Secret plans to kill leaders of the extremist Taliban and Al Qaeda and the discussion of the alleged involvement of Iran and [...]
Open Letter from Prominent Afghans to Obama: Discrimination Against Pashtuns
Dawat Independent Media Centre | 1 July 2010 To: Mr. Obama, President, United States ofAmerica From: Dr. Misdaq, Dr. Zirakyar, Dr. Miraki and Dr. Burhani This letter was sent to U.S. President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Chairman of Senate Foreign Relations Committee John Kerry and Ranking Member Richard Lugar, [...]
Americans to hold “Burn a Koran Day” on 11 September 2010
Southern Poverty Law Center | By Alexander Zaitchik | 22 July 2010 Coming Soon: 'International Burn a Koran Day' After years of having the field all to himself, Westboro Baptist Church leader and gay-basher extraordinaire Fred Phelps might finally have some competition for the title of America’s most media-hungry hate-church [...]
Psy-Op? American said to edit alleged online Al Qaeda magazine (that can’t be found)
Colbert Report | 1 July 2010 Al Qaeda Starts Inspire Magazine Is this some twisted American Psy-Op -- sorry, MISO (Military Information Support Operation), as it is now called -- or just some disaffected American Muslim hounded as a terrorist, who lost his job, and decided to live up to his tormentor's expectations? It is hard to say. An [...]
Syrian Alawites Ban the Muslim Veil
Ha'aretz | Associated Press | 19 July 2010 Syria bans Muslim face veils at universities Headscarves will still be permitted under new rules meant to defend the secular nature of the country. Syria has banned the face-covering Islamic veil from the country's universities, as similar moves in Europe spark cries of discrimination against [...]
Anti-War Conference in Albany, NY (23-25 July 2010)
Times Union | By Dennis Yusko | 18 July 2010 From fighting a war to fighting war Veterans more vocal in anti-war movement "Fear turns into hatred and overcomes everything you are," McCord said from his Wichita home. "You turn into a monster over there. I feel it is my duty to speak out on the wars and what I witnessed." ALBANY -- Ethan [...]
MI5/6 Complicit in Abduction, Torture of Non-White U.K. Citizens
Guardian | By Ian Cobain and Owen Bowcott | 14 July 2010 Covert words that paint a vivid picture of complicity in torture Foreign Office and No 10 interventions revealed Emails and memos began months after September 11 Early January 2002. The Taliban regime in Kabul had been toppled, Nato forces were spreading out across Afghanistan, [...]
Mortenson’s “Three Cups of Tea”
In a brilliant reflection on Greg Mortenson's Three Cups of Tea, Nosheen Ali exposes how the book constructs a patronising and misleading narrative of terror in which the realities of Northern Pakistan and Muslim life-worlds are distorted through simplistic tropes of ignorance, backwardness and extremism, while histories of US geopolitics and [...]
Bosnians mark Srebrenica genocide
Islâmi Davet - Islamic Invitation | 11 July 2010 Fifteen years after Serbs slaughtered almost 8,000 Muslims in what is believed to be one of the worst massacres in Europe, Bosnians hold a special ceremony to remember the victims. Bosnians gathered at Potocari memorial in Srebrenica on Sunday to honor the victims of the Srebrenica [...]
