Author: Kevin Duewel

The little boy was beaten at school and called a terrorist, but only months earlier “his mother had been killed in a roadside bombing by a real terrorist”: The Burden Of Being a Young American Muslim (Washington Post) Ismail Haniyeh’s declaration, “all Palestinian citizens must prevent all harm to all Christian churches on Palestinian land.…

A dangerous situation: the percentage of urban Iraqis living in slums has skyrocketed from under 20%  before the American invasion to 53% today and unemployment is over 25%: What You Will Not Hear About Iraq (Counter Currents) The worst side of nationalism, and of nativism meet in a recent Israeli government effort to “preserve the…

A 56-year-old from Brooklyn says outsiders propagandizing over the Park51 have “nothing to do with New York and they don’t care about New York.” Even some locals opposed to the center agree that people like Palin and Gingerich “until very recently, didn’t seem interested in New York at all” : Mosque Debate: New Yorkers Take…

Cato Institute Vice President Gene Healy asks why “zoning issues in lower Manhattan” should be itemized on the top of the national agenda: ‘Mosque’ Debate Is a Red Herring (Cato) “Israeli investigations still fall far short of being thorough and impartial, while Hamas appears to have done nothing at all to investigate alleged violations,”  —…

Regulations restricting farmers from assisting Muslim customers from slaughtering animals have unintended — and undesirable — consequences: Business Caters to Muslim Immigrants Seeking to Fulfill Ritual Animal Sacrifices (Washington Post) Muslim Public Affairs Council, Washington office Director Haris Tarin tells his father’s story of immigration from Afghanistan to “the America he fell in love with”:…

“Men like Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf should be embraced as vital allies, and we should have only contempt for those who, through ignorance or political calculation, attempt to conflate them with the extremists”: The Muslims in the Middle (New York Times) “Allowing the Muslim community center to be built where it is being proposed represents…

Polling shows that despite 60 percent of Americans think the construction of the Muslim community center is wrong, 60 percent of Americans also think that the Muslim group has the right to build the mosque if it chooses: Should President Obama Have Commented on the Ground Zero Mosque Plan? (abc News) Social networking website Facebook …

“Four of the nation’s most highly valued terrorist prisoners were secretly moved to Guantanamo … years earlier than has been disclosed, then whisked back into overseas prisons before the Supreme Court could give them access to lawyers”: CIA Whisked Detainees from Gitmo (AP / Yahoo) “Uniformed military personnel, civilians and family members faced Mecca and…

Al Gore and Paul Wolfowitz join forces to “urge the U.S. government to speak out” on behalf of Anwar Ibrahim, who “could be headed to prison again on trumped up charges”: Malaysia’s Opposition On Trial (Harapan Baru) John Esposito is concerned about rhetoric that “incites and demonizes, alienates and marginalizes and leads to the adoption…

“America has a long history of learning from some of the mistakes made in Europe when it comes to religious toleration and liberty. Here we have yet another opportunity to do so. Let’s not miss it”: Anti-Mosque Sentiment in America: Lessons from Europe? (Huffington Post) With stocks in Indonesia JKSE up about 20 percent in…