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       There Are Some Things Even The Scarecrow Knows....

               The Palestinians require a homeland

The realization came to Deborah Rashada while she was lying flat out in bed with a broken ankle, staring at the ceiling

DAMASCUS - Syrian security forces killed at least four people on Saturday in a border town, witnesses said, as the

At least four killed in anti-regime protests despite no-shoot order, dialogue offer, troop pullouts.

 death toll rose in anti-regime protests despite a no-shoot order, dialogue offer and troop…

What silent communion this scene holds,

How rekindle love in a world of sin?

By William A. Cook

Of a life lived and one yet to unfold;

What forlorn love those encircling arms portend,

That would protect against the evils that descend

From…

Marchers in Beit Lahm…

The millions of people who have been protesting - from Tunis, Egypt and Libya, to Bahrain, Yemen and Syria - appear

'Bad laws,' Edmund Burke once said, 'are the worst sort of tyranny.'

By Neve Gordon

to have recognised this truism and are demanding the end of emergency law and the drafting of new constitutions that will guarantee the separation of powers, free, fair and regular elections, and basic political, social and…

Double straps or double standards?

Amnesty slams US over Guantanamo Bay detention center, impunity of CIA 'rendition' program.

Afghanistan and by a flawed capital punishment…

CAIRO - A senior official of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood said on Thursday that the group would expel any member



who runs for president, after a leading Brotherhood reformer was quoted as saying he might stand.



Abdel Moneim Abolfotouh, a former member of the Islamist group's politburo, told the Al-Shorouk newspaper he had decided to stand in the election scheduled for November even though the Brotherhood said it would not nominate a candidate.…

Some 17 million children across the U.S. live in poverty, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, and that number is on

the rise. Islamic Relief USA is partnering with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to provide nutritious meals to needy children in our communities.

First lady Michelle Obama is asking the Muslim community to help establish 50 new sites where nutritious meals will be provided to children living in high-poverty areas throughout the…

 Imam Khalil Abdur-Rashid is a former social worker and Arabic language instructor at Georgia State University. After

teaching there for some time, Imam Khalil consulted his private teacher in Islamic law about what he should do with his life. He already had a bachelor’s degree in social work, yet because he did not possess a graduate degree, his time as a teacher at Georgia State was restricted to three years. Khalil’s teacher in Islamic law had just completed his…

News personalities, politicians, self-appointed experts on the Muslim world, and law enforcement and…

The question we try to raise in this feature touches us in many ways. Whether we are contemplating marriage

by Hassen Laidi

 ourselves, are concerned about a daughter or sister, or thinking about the general welfare of our community, we often find ourselves asking: what makes an ideal husband? And I hope that you will…

WASHINGTON, USA - Three imams including a US-born Muslim bound for a conference on Islamophobia were kicked

off US domestic flights out of security fears, clerics and an airline said Saturday.

Two imams boarded a flight from Memphis, Tennessee to Charlotte, North Carolina on Friday only to have it return to the terminal so they could be put through "additional screening," said a spokesman for Atlantic South Airlines (ASA), the Delta Connection airline…

The Syrian regime is laying siege to whole cities, and is willing to annihilate them to crush the peaceful democracy

movement. Security forces have cut off all food, water and medicine to these towns, shot hundreds of citizens, and detained and tortured thousands -- in many cases ripping out their fingernails before releasing them, as a warning to other protesters.



Despite this unimaginable terror, the Syrian people refuse to be silenced, and…