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DETROIT (AP) — A group that counts Islam among the ills facing the nation began a 24-hour prayer rally Friday

Nov. 9, 2011: Imam Abdullah Bey El-Amin, center, speaks during a news conference in Detroit. A coalition of Detroit clergy and community activists plan to march to a downtown football stadium and…

In his classic study "Suicide" (1897), French Sociologist Emile Durkheim coined the term anomie. Anomie derived

photo: AP / Vahid Salemi

Soledad O'Brien's latest chapter in her Black in America series has caused a huge uproar even before the episode airs

Frank Greene; Shellye Archambeau; Paul Judge

By: Joel Dreyfuss

on Nov. 13. In her continuing exploration of the nooks and crannies of African-American life, O'Brien has taken on Silicon Valley, which sees…

Another mission accomplished, or so it seems. Israeli navy has managed to thwart yet another civil society

'We will keep coming, wave after wave..' (Via Press TV)

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By Ramzy Baroud

provocation' (as described by the Israeli Embassy in Dublin, Irish Times, November 4).

 

Thus the 27 activists from nine countries aboard two boats were rounded up and hauled, along with their 'provocative' medical supplies, to the…

The American public is about to be inundated with another flood of “expert analysis” about a dangerous Middle Eastern

Exclusive: The US press corps and “independent” American weapons experts got almost everything wrong about Iraq’s purported WMD before the US invasion in 2003. Now, much the same cast is returning to interpret dubious intelligence about Iran’s nuclear program, reports Robert…

 From 1831 until 1840, French political philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville traveled throughout the United States

                              Imam Khalid Fattah Griggs

 recording his observations of the religious, social, and political life of the American people. His masterful sociological treatise of early America, Democracy in America, published in 1835, introduced a characterization of the nation that…

  Every Muslim who has the means must make the journey to Mecca at     least once in his or her life time.  This is a duty owed to Allah Most High. 

                 Click:  Hajj Pictures Boston Globe Dhul Hijjah 1432 /…

Q: Why Tom Friedman? And can you talk a little about how the book is organized?

Why Tom Friedman?

(Belén Fernández’ book…

Thomas Friedman’s predilection for double standards favoring Israel is visible time and again, as is his predilection for

In Thomas Friedman’s world,…

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WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday heralded the movements of Arab Spring and said the



Clinton says US is prepared to work with rising Islamist groups, such as Ennahdha which enjoyed recent election victory in Tunisia.

United States was prepared to work with rising Islamist groups in the region, such as those who enjoyed a recent election victory in Tunisia. The United States shares "their desire to see a Tunisian democracy…

Hasbara is the Hebrew word for a particular type of pernicious propaganda first employed by early Zionists leaders to

By Ira Glunts

explain the unexplainable actions of the Jewish administration in Palestine. In recent years, hasbara has been disseminated by certain Christian fundamentalists who believe supporting Israel brings them closer to God, and also by many members of the United States Congress who have been co-opted…

Herman Cain's emergence as the GOP candidate who could take on Barack Obama in 2012 lets people know a

Luther Campbell, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke assesses the African-American frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination

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