Category: Dr. Ahmad’s blog

I was recently interviewed by Javier Méndez Araya, journalist in El Mercurio newspaper in Santiago Chile about the potential for Benjamin Netanyahu’s return to the helm of Israel politics after the tragic and disastrous invasion of Gaza. Here are my answers to his questions. Q. After the war in Gaza, do you think there is…

Every year the Heritage Foundation puts out its rankings of economic freedom in the world. This year the USA came in sixth. Of the Muslim countries, Bahrain scored best, coming at #16, with an economy ranked overall at 75% free. Bahrain got honorable 80% scores on trade freedom, business freedom, and government size, 74% on…

The cruel circus surrounding the trials of Dr. Sami Al-Arian continues. We must declare our admiration for Judge Leonie Brinkema who has maintained her judicial integrity in the challenging balancing act of maintaining the rights of the accused even as the prosecution employs double dealing with a deck already stacked against defenders of the Palestinian…

Even as John McCain made an impeccably gracious concession speech yesterday, voices of his supporters interrupted him with boos directed against the new President-elect. Those boos reminded you of the why McCain lost: the frightening jingoistic, racist, Islamophobic rhetoric of too many of his supporters and the trail of destruction visited upon the Republican Party’s…

Congressman Wayne Gilchrist (R-MD) was among the speakers at a gala dinner sponsored by the Council for the National Interest (CNI) to honor Congressman Paul Findley, author of They Dare to Speak Out. CNI seeks to re-orient American foreign policy to the benefit of the United States rather than foreign countries. Congressman Gilchrist, who recently…

Here are my answers to recent questions from Farspress about the relationship of the economic crisis on American foreign policy. Q- The U.S economy supremacy suffered from the U.S invasion to Afganistan and Iraq and the alleged “development of democracy.” How do you see the future of this trend? A. The disastrous collapse of the…

Naim Ateek is the founder of the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center in Jerusalem and the author of Justice and Only Justice: A Palestinian Theology of Liberation. He spoke at the Festival Center in DC on Oct. 3 at the invitation of the Friends of Sabeel—North America and the US Campaign to End the Israeli…

Yesterday, I received an e-mail asking me to comment on the following: “The current regime occupying the Holy Land of Hijaz Al Muqadas formally known as the Kingdom of Al Saud has announced the first day of Shawaal 1429 Hj, (Tuesday, September 30, 2008) claiming to have sighted the new moon. Claims were made as…

Last Thursday night (Sept. 25, 2008) I attended an interfaith iftar dinner cosponsored by a number of pro-peace Christian churches and the Iranian mission to the United Nations. The theme was the role religion can play in solving the world’s problems and the main featured speaker was the president of Iran. Most of the speeches…

Saad-ad-Din Ibrahim, Visiting Professor of Political Sociology at Indiana University and Founder of the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies, Egypt, spoke at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars today on “Freedom ‘After’ Speech.” He offered his own persecution by the Egyptian government as the tip of an iceberg and identified the enabling role…