Featured Blog Posts – August 2014 Archive (8)

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HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – Terry Holdbrooks Jr., 29, wears the beard of a bald Amish guy, the tattoos of a punk kid, and

the twitchy alertness of a military policeman. Take him to a restaurant, and he’ll choose the chair with its back against the wall. Take his photo, and he'll prefer to look away from the camera.

Part of that wariness Holdbrooks learned while guarding detainees from 2003 to 2004 at Guantanamo Bay, the…

My opposition to the use of the word convert to describe someone like myself (Muslim over a decade) is linked to the

By: Myriam Francois-Cerrah

Source: http://myriamfrancoiscerrah.wordpress.com/

exclusive and thus exclusionary dimension of the term ‘convert’.

It both identifies…

100 Most Influential Muslim In Georgia...…

On Sunday, August 10th, 2014, renowned and notable scholar and professor Dr. Tariq Ramadan posted on his

Tarid Ramadan at the 2010 ISNA convention. Photo courtesy of Umar Nazir/Flikr…

During the US occupation of Iraq it was routine to torture Iraqis in prisons like Abu Ghraib whose prison

Shabana Syed

guards were using tactics learnt in Israeli training camps as Robert Fisk pointed out in ‘Abu Ghraib torture trail leads to Israel’; one of the most baffling questions asked during interrogation was “Where is the man called Imam Mahdi where…

Officials in St. Louis County and the tense town of Ferguson, Mo., remain mum nearly three days after an unidentified

police officer shot an unarmed black teenager to death. But a young man who says he was with the victim at the time of the shooting has described a virtually unprovoked attack in which the officer fired repeatedly—even after the victim raised his hands and begged him to stop shooting.

In an…