Author: Fatema

The commissioner and his deputy admitted to ” involvement in the film [only] after producer Raphael Shore emailed The Times and provided a date and time of the interview” and “the department was found to be fibbing about how many times the film had been screened“: Ray Kelly Admits Involvement With ‘The Third Jihad,’ Anti-Muslim…

Nearly 1,500 New York Police department officers are trained  to think that American Muslims have plans to infiltrate and dominate America: In Police Training, a Dark Film on U.S. Muslims (New York Times) Holding that “‘the market economy and free trade … is part and parcel of Islam as a complete way of life,’ and “reminding…

The Brotherhood’s “‘Freedom and Justice’ party championed the rights of free market economy and political and social diversity.”  Unlike the more conservative An-Nour Party, “the group’s most loyal supporters are not the fervent extremists they are made out to be in western media, but are well-educated and predominately middle-class Egyptians”: Egypt: Islamists vs. Islamists (Huffington Post)…

Sectarian violence had been absent in Afghanistan, where an Islamic Brotherhood Council of Shia and Sunni clerics was long established to maintain harmony between the communities. Yet, regional players and developments carried the sectarian epidemic across the boarders of the unstable country: Why Have Afghanistan’s Shias Been Targeted Now? (BBC News) At Least 55 Dead in Kabul Suicide Attack…

Islamic Banking has experienced a compound annual growth rate of 20 percent over the past three years and is predicted to almost double to $1.8 trillion in assets by 2016, yet suspicion is still present on the power of Islamic banking to eliminate the problem of leverage: Western Debt Crisis Spurs Growth of Islamic Finance (Reuters)…

Seeing the trees: a close-up look at the voting in Egypt; a man votes for the first time because his son was killed in Tahrir Square and his wife refuses to vote for the same reason: One Egyptian Voter Cast a Ballot in Honor of His Son (Washington Post with Foreign Policy) The community service…

“”Our demands are clear,’ said Khaled El-Sayed, a protester from the Youth Revolution Coalition and a candidate in the upcoming parliamentary election. ‘We want the military council to step down and hand over authority to a national salvation government with full authority.’ He also demanded” trials “for the ‘horrific crimes’ of the past few days,…

While Egypt, Tunisia and Kuwait engage the new generation of conservative by allowing their participation in the political process, Jordan has reportedly “kept them in solitary confinement and denied them medical attention”, as the authorities there see “their very existence as an ongoing threat to the country’s stability”: As Gov’t Warms up to Islamists, Salafists…

Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports that FBI statistics found that anti-Muslims hate crimes rose nearly 50 percent in 2010, and Cain refuses to identify the “Muslim leader” who warned hm that most Amercian Muslims are extremists: FBI Reports Dramatic Spike in Anti-Muslim Hate Violence (Huffington Post) Cain’s Lapse into Bigotry, Again (Washington Post) “The free market system…

Dr. Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad, President and Director of the Minaret of Freedom Institute,and Dr. Steven Zunes, a professor of politics and international studies at the University of St. Francisco talk about Iran’s nuclear program and the wider implications of the IAEA claims that it has credible information that Tehran is trying to build nuclear weapons: Iran Will Not…