Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص's Blog – October 2011 Archive (59)

US cuts UNESCO funding over Palestine

In Tehran, an unexpected source is expressing doubt about the assassination plot laid out by US officials, alleging that

Dawud Salahuddin, an American fugitive in Tehran who carried out 1980 hit near Washington, argues that Iran would not try to kill the Saudi ambassador to the US for fear of provoking war

By…

It's 11 months since I began taking a daily low-dose - 75mg - of aspirin in the hope that it might reduce my long term

Nearly 900 patients took part in the trial

 risk of developing cancer.

This personal decision came after a…

        PRO:            Minister Louis Farrakhan On Libya…

TEHRAN - US plans to launch a "virtual embassy" for Iran will fail, the speaker of Iran's parliament said Thursday,

Larijani says US is hoping for protest movement inside Iran, insists Arab spring is result of Islamic revolution in Iran.

according to the website of the state broadcaster IRIB.

"If the Americans believe they can do something in Iran with a virtual (embassy), they are…

Deeply entrenched attitudes towards colour, and the increasing promotion of skin-lightening products, are

 placing a ‘horrible burden’ on dark-skinned women, Bim Adewunmi writes in London’s Guardian.

Next week, at the international black film festival in…

10/27/2011  The shooting case, of Brother Shukri Abdur Rahman, is still on the back burner with the Atlanta Police Department.  It is not clear as to why the Department is not responding, or respond at such a slow pace.  In speaking with the family today…

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(WASHINGTON, D.C., 10/26/11) -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called on the U.S. Senate

CAIR Seeks Senate Hearing on 'Shocking' Report of NYPD Spying on Muslims

Department reportedly opened secret files on anyone who changed or adopted Muslim names

 Judiciary Committee to hold hearings on what the Washington-based civil rights and advocacy organization said is the…

Friends:

Late Tuesday night into early this morning, a massive police force cordoned off a large section of downtown Atlanta

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President Obama has already started campaign for the 2012 presidential election. But how much is Israel's power over

 America's politics and during the presidential elections? This is the question raised by Nisa Islam in this edition of American Dream.…

 The Project

Peace X Peace is proud to launch a new video series called Catalyst: Voices of Israeli and Palestinian Women.  The videos lift up hopeful voices of Palestinians and Israelis during this time of dynamic confrontation. Hope and despair have taken turns in the Middle East through the Oslo Accords of 1993, two intifadas, the building of the separation wall, a blockade, the killing of more than 1300 Gazans in January 2009, and a financial upturn in…