Added on 16/06/2013
Tabsir
Asia , Assad family , Bashar al-Asad , Bashar al-Assad , Fertile Crescent , Iran , Israel , Libya , Middle East , Muammar Gaddafi , Obama , Politics , President , Syria , United Arab Republic , United States
DANIEL M. VARISCO: For George W. Bush the phrase was ‘Mission Accomplished’. For his successor there could be another phrase that defines his foreign affair policy
Added on 15/06/2013
Juan Cole
Afghanistan , Algeria , Asia , Bill Clinton , Chemical weapons , Damascus , Foreign policy of the Bill Clinton administration , France , Hillary Rodham Clinton , Iran , Obama , Osama Bin Laden , Politics , Politics of Syria , Politics of the United States , President , Protests in Syria , Syria , Syrian uprising , United States , War in Afghanistan , War/Conflict
JUAN COLE: Bill Clinton has criticised President Obama for not providing stronger military support for the Syrian opposition. His own record on military intervention isn’t so good.
Added on 02/06/2013
Juan Cole
Carolina Center , Chapel Hill , Charles Kurzman , co-director , Islam in the United States , Islamic terrorism , Middle East , North Carolina , Politics , Professor of Sociology , Social Issues , University of North Carolina
CHARLES KURZMAN, INFORMED COMMENT: If the lead agency in combatting terror against the U.S designates the whole Islamic world as the source of terror what hope is there?
Added on 28/05/2013
Common Ground News Service
Boston , Council on American-Islamic Relations , Islam , Islam in the United States , Marathon , Shazia Tariq , The Boston Marathon , Todd Gallinger
KIRAN ANSARI, CGNEWS: It was a difficult choice – whether to identify myself visibly as a Muslim at a public community event
Added on 24/05/2013
Juan Cole
Al Qaeda , Barack Obama , Barack Obama foreign policy , Central Intelligence Agency , Congress , Drone attacks in Pakistan , Government , Islam , Islamic terrorism , Islamism , Obama , Politics , President , United States , Unmanned aerial vehicle , US government , War in Afghanistan
JUAN COLE: Some praise is due but Obama remains wedded to the idea that extra-judicial assassination is an effective counter-terror tool.
Added on 24/05/2013
Ramzy Baroud
Asia , Iraq , Israel , Levant , Middle East , Politics , Russia , United States , War/Conflict , Washington
RAMZY BAROUD: America’s current role as impotent looker-on is unprecedented in recent Middle Eastern history. This situation won’t continue indefinitely
Added on 22/05/2013
Common Ground News Service
Anti-Islam , Europe , European Islam , Islam , Islam in the United States , Islamophobia , Monotheism , Religion , Religion/Belief , United States
JOCEYLINE CESARI, CGNEWS: Muslim communities across the globe need to take inspiration from the African-American community on how to integrate within indigenous societies
Added on 18/05/2013
Common Ground News Service
African American Muslims , American Muslims , Anwar al-Awlaki , Boston , Islam , Islamic terrorism , Religion , teacher
NAZISH YARKHAN, CGNEWS: ‘Do people call you a terrorist?, ‘How Do you Feel about the Boston bombing?’ These difficult conversations are important.
Added on 17/05/2013
Steve Royston
Airstrikes , Barack Obama , Drone , Drone attacks in Pakistan , Military , Military terminology , Morality , Nawaz Sharif , Pakistan , Pakistan–United States relations , Signals intelligence , Unmanned aerial vehicle , War/Conflict
STEVE ROYSTON: Is killing via a missile fired remotely by a drone any different morally from killing by poison gas or a nuclear weapon?
Added on 08/05/2013
Ramzy Baroud
2001-09-11 , America , Anti-Islam , Antisemitism , Arab–Israeli conflict , Criticism of religion , Islamophobia , Israel , Israel–Pakistan relations , Jewish history , Politics , Religion , Religious persecution , Secularism , United States , War/Conflict
RAMZY BAROUD: The anti-Muslim brigade who take to the media at every possible opportunity received another boost with the Boston bombing.
Added on 04/05/2013
Mondoweiss
A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm , Alawi , Andrew Tabler , Asia , Assad family , Bashar al-Assad , Fertile Crescent , Iraq , Israel , Israeli–Palestinian conflict , Israel–United States relations , Joshua Landis , Melissa Block , Middle East , Neoconservatism , Politics , Syria , Zionism
PHILIP WEISS, CGNEWS: Josh Landis’s marriage to a Syrian Alawite was judged fair game in a discussion on his views on the political situation. Why only him?
Added on 24/04/2013
Ramzy Baroud
Abuse , Barack Obama , Ethics , Force-feeding , George W. Bush , Guantanamo Bay , Guantanamo Bay detainment camp , Guantanamo Bay detention camp , Guantánamo Bay hunger strikes , Guantanamo Bay Naval Base , Guantanamo prison , Human rights abuses , Internments , Legal issues related to the September 11 attacks , Mohammed Saghir , Politics , Presidency of George W. Bush , President , United States
RAMZY BAROUD: Barack Obama promised to close Guantanamo Bay but still it remains open. And what a bizarre place it has become.
Added on 22/04/2013
Juan Cole
Al Qaeda , Al-Assad family , Asia , Assad family , Bashar al-Assad , Chechnya , Damascus , Hafez Al Assad , Middle East , Obama , Politics , President , Russia , Shabeeha , Syria , Syrian uprising , United States , Vladimir Putin , War/Conflict
JUAN COLE: It’s clear that reverberations from the Boston bombings will spread to Chechnya and beyond. How will it impact the U.S view of Syria?
Added on 20/04/2013
Mondoweiss
Ali Gharib , Anti-Islam , Boston , Criticism of religion , Islam , Islamophobia , Islamophobic incidents , law enforcement , Religion , Secularism , The Boston Marathon , War/Conflict
ALEX KANE, MONDOWEISS: It began even before we discovered that the two perpetrators were indeed of Muslim extraction. It’s set to be very ugly again.
Added on 18/04/2013
Steve Royston
Barack Obama , Boston , September 11 attacks , Terrorism , War/Conflict
So Boston, it seems, has had its 9/11. Not on the scale of the New York attacks, of course. But the shock will be almost as deep.
STEVE ROYSTON: So Boston, it seems, has had its 9/11. Not on the scale of the New York attacks, of course. But the shock will be almost as deep.
Added on 03/04/2013
Common Ground News Service
abaya , Burqa , Clothing , Culture , Dresses , Headgear , Headscarf , Hijab , Islam and women , Niqab , Philadelphia , Philadelphia City , Purdah , Scarves
KEZIAH RIDGEWAY, CGNEWS: A spate of crimes involving burqa-clad individuals has led to a rise in hate crime but the fightback is coming from an unlikely quarter
Added on 01/04/2013
Shelina Zahra Janmohamed
Abuse , Adolescence , Child marriage , Domestic violence , Ethics , Gender-based violence , Human behavior , Human sexuality , Laws regarding rape , Marriageable age , Ohio , Rape , Social Issues , Steubenville , Violence
SHELINA ZAHRA JANMOHAMED: Perhaps in light of the events in Steubenville, Ohio what’s needed is a simple ‘How To’ and ‘How Not To’ guide
Added on 30/03/2013
Tabsir
Behavior , Civic virtue , Conscience , Ethics , Freedom of Speech , Nonviolence , Personality , Philosophy , Philosophy of mind , Political philosophy , Religion/Belief , Social philosophy
QASIM RASHID, CHRIS STEDMAN, TABSIR: One of us is Muslim and one is an atheist but we agree on certain fundamentals concerning religion
Added on 23/03/2013
Francis Matthew
Barack Obama , Economy of Iran , Iran , Iran–United States relations , Politics , Politics of Iran , Sanctions against Iran
Iran and the US have growing technical agreement over the nuclear dispute, which will only become useful if the political leaders on both sides want to make a deal.
FRANCIS MATTHEW: A technical agreement over the nuclear dispute will only be useful if leaders on both sides want to make a deal.