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Crisis in Sudan: ‘If the World Stands Idly By This Time, They Will Bring Genocide’

…li and more broadly in Sudan? The issue is complex and has more to do with Arabization: some Arabs imposing their own culture on black people, refusing, denying other black cultures. In some learning institutions and schools in Sudan, there is little or no history of black people; what children learn is history from Arab perspectives. We do not have big problems with Muslims in most parts of South Kordofan, only in a few places, especially in the…

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Hajj Journal: Friday Salat al Jumu’ah in Haram al-Sharif

…started as well. For one thing, my roommate chose this moment to sever our united front and settled herself and prayer rug elsewhere. So I was alone (with a few million people that is). The Arab woman who had been sleeping when I put my prayer rug next to her and her sleeping husband was pushed more and more to my side as her husband was pushed from his side. I tried to simply stay my ground but it was no use. She sat on my thigh or just continued…

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Nonviolence, Muslim Style: From Ghaffar Khan to Tahrir Square

…n of what’s happened over the past six or eight months.   Do you think the Arab Spring is changing this negative perception of Islam? Now, if you talk to an average or semi-well informed American, you don’t have to explain yourself when you talk about mass nonviolent movements in the Middle East, because they will immediately associate that with Egypt and Tunisia. So the American image of the Middle East is changing, but I don’t think it’s changed…

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Why Don’t Muslims Condemn Terrorism?

…lims is shocking. Yet, it is the history of the last 60 years and involves Arab Muslims. As much as Israel/Palestine is framed as a religious issue, most Muslims (the 80% who are not Arab) are not invested in it in the same level. We know Israelis will never desecrate the shrines of our shared prophets. The Dome of the Rock is a uniquely Muslim place, but the people most invested in blowing it up are Christian Zionists, not Israelis – at least not…

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The General’s Son Recounts Very Different Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

…Israel was compelled to fight for its life in 1967 against Egypt and other Arab nations determined to destroy it. But in fact Egypt massed troops on Israel’s border only because the Egyptians believed (from faulty intelligence) that Israel was preparing to invade its ally, Syria. Though that wasn’t true, it is true that Israeli military leaders were urging their civilian government to fight a war sooner rather than later. The Israelis knew that th…

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LGBT and Muslim? A New Report Busts Stereotypes

…at LGBT individuals face.” Shaikh calls the book “the first of its kind in Arabic in the region.” Helem is also launching an online homophobia monitor. Participants in the Intersections International project were aware of the global implications of their conversation, with many expressing gratitude that the United States provides a safe place to have conversations that would be hard to hold in most Muslim countries. Greater visibility in the U.S….

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God Bless You, Barbara Herz

…d manipulation of domestic passion is the Republicans’ forte.  UPDATE: The Arab-American Institute has criticized the language change on Jerusalem. From its statement: The 2012 language was clearly an attempt to bring rhetoric in line with reality—the generally acknowledged fact accepted by all sides of the conflict that the final status of Jerusalem is an issue that needs to be determined in negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians them…

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Looking at Libya, and at Ourselves

…s out, these events were feared to be the sign of an Arab winter after the Arab Spring, and that the Arab world really was violently reactionary.  Today’s events show us something else: rational actors, who died tried to protect the American who gave so much to them. There are numerous reports of Libyans dying protecting the compound where Ambassador Chris Stevens was killed, taking him to a hospital, and having both people on the street and the g…

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African Religious leaders complain about Obama advocacy for LGBT rights; Ultra-Orthodox Man Stabs Jerusalem Pride Parade Marchers, Again; Struggles over sexuality in Islam, Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican Churches; Global LGBT recap

…ed on “Oriented,” a new documentary that chronicles the lives of three gay Arab citizens of Israel, including Khader Abu Seif and “the dichotomy of his life as a gay Arab Israeli citizen considered an outcast by the Palestinian society for his sexuality and viewed with unease by some Israelis for his brand of nationality.” Mexico: Marriage equality advances; opponents take to the streets An estimated 5,000 to 10,000 people marched in Guadalajara,…

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Countering the “Countering Violent Extremism” Program

…ling-down on a failed security-centric approach to counterterrorism in the Arab and Muslim world. That disastrously overly-militarized approach to militant salafism, combined with federal support for de facto anti-Arab and anti-Muslim CVE programs at home, only help groups like ISIS make the case that America is, contrary to all public statements to the contrary, at war with Islam. These points are worth considering. But as Li points out it would…

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