December 2011 Blog Posts (49)

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Los Angeles (CNN) -- Ad time for next Sunday's "All-American Muslim" episode is apparently sold out, despite

"All-American Muslim" is an eight-part series that follows five Muslim families living in Dearborn, Michigan

Lowe's decision to pull its commercials from the TLC reality series, a TLC network spokeswoman said.

Hip hop mogul Russell Simmons announced his intentions Monday…

How Harmful Is TLC....…

WASHINGTON, D.C., 12/13/2011) -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called on Lowe's, the

Community leaders seek meeting with company to discuss decision to pull spots from TLC's 'All-American Muslim'

world's second largest home improvement retailer, to address the anti-Muslim hate rhetoric prompted by that company's decision to pull its…

A few days ago, I revisited a lecture given by Fred Halliday, FBA, an intellectual giant among scholars of Middle East

Where is Iran's nuclear program going? I do not know.

By Deepak Tripathi

and Cold War history, at the London School of Economics in 2009. His topic was “The Islamic Republic of Iran After 30 Years.” For nearly a quarter century, Halliday was professor of International Relations at the LSE and recognized…

On December 2, the Geneva-based UN Watch welcomed that day’s “strong condemnation” of Syria by a UN Human…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Maureen Faulkner waited nearly 30 years for her husband's murderer to be executed. But

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Britain's foreign secretary William Hague has written a widely acclaimed 576-page biography of William Pitt the

By Stuart Littlewood

Younger, who became prime minister in 1783 at the tender age of 24. Pitt was the war leader during Britain’s running battles with Napoleon, but it is said that he was uncomfortable in such a role and considered war got in the way of trade and prosperity.

It is a pity that Pitt’s abhorrence…

The Palestinian Uprising or Intifada of 1987 remains the single most significant triumph of popular mobilization in

Allegiance must not lie with any particular faction. (Latuff)

By Ramzy Baroud

Palestinian history.

The First Intifada, as it is commonly known, had, once and for all, placed the Palestinian people as a collective on the political map of a region that previously had room only for Israeli Merkava tanks and US…

(CHICAGO, 12/7/2011) — On Thursday, December 8, the Chicago office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations

CAIR-Chicago: Rights Groups to Condemn Bill Allowing Military Detention of U.S. Citizens

(CAIR-Chicago), along with other civil rights and interfaith groups, will hold a press conference calling on Congress and President Obama to reject the U.S. Senate’s version of the National Defense Authorization Act (S.…

(WASHINGTON D.C., 12/6/2011) -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is urging American Muslims

and other people of conscience to call on Congress and President Obama to reject the U.S. Senate version of the National Defense Authorization Act (S. 1867), which calls for the arrest and indefinite military detention of American citizens suspected of terrorism without charge or trial.

That…