Scratch & Sniff: Kamal Nawash & Free Muslims front for GOP

Posted on September 17th, 2004 by martijn.
Categories: Internal Debates.

The Blogging of the President: 2004

Well I had a piece here on Freemuslims.org, feeling sorry for 9/11 and so on. I had a funny feeling about it, the apologies I mean. Someone looked into it more deeper and found out they are a front group for the Republican party. Well, I like to say that also for Republican muslims it is not forbidden to apologize…;-), but the question is do they have to? Another thing, ok call me a cynic, who sincere is this before election (believe me, I would have said the same thing if they were democrats).

The one who informed me on this Shaula Evans. Her blog: http://tsuredzuregusa.blogspot.com

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Scratch & Sniff: Kamal Nawash & Free Muslims front for GOP

Posted on September 17th, 2004 by .
Categories: Internal Debates.

The Blogging of the President: 2004

Well I had a piece here on Freemuslims.org, feeling sorry for 9/11 and so on. I had a funny feeling about it, the apologies I mean. Someone looked into it more deeper and found out they are a front group for the Republican party. Well, I like to say that also for Republican muslims it is not forbidden to apologize…;-), but the question is do they have to? Another thing, ok call me a cynic, who sincere is this before election (believe me, I would have said the same thing if they were democrats).

The one who informed me on this Shaula Evans. Her blog: http://tsuredzuregusa.blogspot.com

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Muslims turn on terror in name of Islam

Posted on September 17th, 2004 by .
Categories: Internal Debates.

Muslims turn on terror in name of Islam – SEPT 15, 2004

“From Jakarta to London, Cairo to Paris, Muslims have been calling radio talk shows, writing newspaper columns and firing off letters to the media condemning terrorist acts in the name of Islam. “

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The crisis of universalism: America and radical Islam after 9/11

Posted on September 17th, 2004 by .
Categories: Religious and Political Radicalization.

The crisis of universalism: America and radical Islam after 9/11 Fred Halliday – openDemocracy

“In a trenchant analysis of the post-9/11 world, Fred Halliday documents the two-sided assault both by the United States and its fundamentalist enemies on universal principles. Can citizens of the world retrieve a confident, humane politics from beneath the rubble?”
[…]
The crisis of universalism, the weakness of the traditional nation-states, and the militarised character of world politics today, together mean that the major issues already confronting the world before 9/11, none of which have become easier since then, are being increasingly neglected. The existence of specific transnational problems like the spread of HIV/Aids and narco-trafficking is sufficient evidence of this. Moreover, none of the interethnic conflicts that fuel public support for Osama bin Laden have been resolved, most notably the Palestine question.

The most important of all these issues is the profound inequality in global conditions of wealth and life between the rich elites of the OECD states and the rest of the world. This polarisation lies at the heart of the pressure to migrate to the richer states of the world, of the corrupt character of many states, and of the rising world resentment of the west, and especially of the United States. “

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Germans have negative view of Islam

Posted on September 17th, 2004 by .
Categories: Misc. News.

Germans have negative view of Islam

BERLIN – Germans hold negative views about Islam and a big majority believe there is a “clash of civilizations” following the attack on a school on southern Russia earlier this month, a poll said.

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CONFLICT IN SUDAN: THE CASE OF DARFUR

Posted on September 17th, 2004 by .
Categories: Misc. News.

African Studies Centre – CONFLICT IN SUDAN: THE CASE OF DARFUR

The Library, Documentation and Information Department of the African Studies Centre Leiden has compiled a web dossier on conflict in Sudan, and especially Darfur, to coincide with a workshop held at the ASC on 10 September 2004. The workshop brought together scholars involved in African Studies and journalists with a special interest in Africa in order to exchange ideas on information gathering and media coverage of African issues, in particular conflicts and war. The current crisis in Darfur was
discussed as an example. The dossier aims to give background information on the Darfur crisis within the context of the wider conflict in Sudan. It contains a selection of titles from the ASC library’s online catalogue on Darfur, the conflict in Sudan, and media coverage of conflicts in Africa in general, covering monographs as well as articles and chapters from edited works. The dossier further contains an introduction on the Darfur crisis and links to selected web resources.

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