Author: ImadadDean
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News and Analysis 9/4/21
The death of a peaceful advocate of Kashmiri self-determination provides India with a pretext to double down on its repression: Internet Shut Down and Indian Troops Deployed After Death of Kashmir Separatist Leader (Reuters / CNN) New Zealanders distinguish between the lone wolf responsible for the ISIS-inspired attack and New Zealand’s broader Muslim community which …
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What Happened in Afghanistan?
It seems everyone is asking some version of the question “What happened in Afghanistan?” Of course, what happened is exactly what many predicted from the moment the invasion of that country was announced almost twenty years ago. While not everyone can be expected to understand the reasons why America’s defeat was a foregone conclusion, everyone,…
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News and Analysis 8/31/21
It is possible to teach about 9/11 without triggering anti-Muslim hysteria: include the Muslim immigrants who lost their lives as first responders, discuss the “Muslim ban” and “no-fly lists,” and keep students safe: Commentary: Lessons About 9/11 Often Provoke Harassment of Muslim Students (Press Herald) Gantz’s “previously undisclosed talks on Sunday with President Mahmoud Abbas”…
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News and Analysis 8/29/21
“[I]deology is going to have to take a backseat if the Taliban government is to survive” …: The Taliban Talks a Lot About Sharī‘a — but How Much Does that Really Tell Us About How They Will Govern? (ABC) … but Biden’s withdrawal of American diplomats from Kabul guarantees no American influence, at least in…
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News and Analysis (7/21/21)
An Israeli firm’s cyberespionage program is being used “to spy on rights activists, dissidents and journalists” … Israeli Spyware Maker Is in Spotlight Amid Reports of Wide Abuses (NY Times) … and their families: Jamal Khashoggi’s Wife Targeted with Spyware Before His Death (Washington Post) “[N]ew laws across India are seeking to ban all interfaith…
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The Hamas Charter
The original HAMAS charter, written in 1987 by a single person and adopted in the crush of the first intifada in 1988 without critical scrutiny, has been an embarrassment to HAMAS to the extent that it is still cited by Zionist propagandists years after its replacement in 2017. The new and official HAMAS charter is…
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Stop Anti-Semitism Now
You have heard reports of an upswing in anti-Semitic (i.e., anti-Jewish) incidents lately, and in any case anti-Semitism was already a serious problem with over half of the religiously based hate crimes in the U.S. being directed against Jews. A concern has been expressed that at a time of rising opposition to Israeli aggression, the…
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Voter Suppression in Jerusalem
[The following letter to the editor was submitted to The Washington Post on May 5. The editors elected not to publish it. We are pleased to print it here]: The Washington Post editorial “An election fiasco leaves the Palestinian government weaker than ever†(5/3/21) tries to blame the Palestinian leadership for the delay in the…
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Manufacturing Counter-mythology
Manufacturing Counter-mythology [This is a preprint of a book review scheduled for publication in the Molinari Review in May 2021] The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise: Muslims, Christians, and Jews under Islamic Rule in Medieval Spain by DarÃo Fernández-Morera, Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2017, 358 pp., US$29.95. ISBN 161017095-4 (hb). Myths are important. Actual myths…
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“THE MEANING OF JERUSALEM THROUGH MY MOTHER’S MEMORIES AND MY FAITHâ€
“THE MEANING OF JERUSALEM THROUGH MY MOTHER’S MEMORIES AND MY FAITH†Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad, Ph.D. Minaret of Freedom Institute Adapted from WHAT JERUSALEM MEANS TO US: MUSLIM PERSPECTIVES AND REFLECTIONS I am a Palestinian-American Muslim. Although I was taken away from it while still in my mother’s womb, Palestine is my motherland in a multi-dimensional sense. My mother…
