By Ramzy Baroud | Source: PalestineChronicle I still remember that smug look on his face, followed by the matter-of-fact remarks that had western journalists laugh out loud. “I’m now going to show you a picture of the luckiest man in Iraq,” General Norman Schwarzkopf, known as ‘Stormin’ Norman, said at …
Read More »From Pol Pot to ISIS: The Blood Never Dried
By John Pilger | Source: PalestineChronicle In transmitting President Richard Nixon’s orders for a “massive” bombing of Cambodia in 1969, Henry Kissinger said, “Anything that flies on everything that moves”. As Barack Obama wages his seventh war against the Muslim world since he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and …
Read More »Inspiration: Islam and Racism
Episode-12 (final episode – Season 1) from the amazing Inspiration Series by Mohamed Zeyara. [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ukfzk0sDT-w] Islam does not pay attention to differences in colour, race or lineage. All people come from Adam, and Adam was created from dust. In Islam, differentiation between people is based on faith (eemaan) and piety (taqwaa), …
Read More »Rania Masri Speech: “Mr.Obama, What is Barbaric?”
A speech by Rania Masri, the keynote speaker, during the ‘Texas For Gaza’ protest on August 2, 2014 in Austin Texas. (Note that the recording missed the first few seconds. She began it by saying that “Yesterday, the Obama administration said that the abduction of the Israeli invading soldier by …
Read More »Extremist US pastor Terry Jones announces plans to burn Quran again
Anti-Islamist Pastor Terry Jones, who was sentenced to death by an Egyptian court in November 2012 for his ties to a film wrongly protaying Muslims that sparked Islamic riots, is planning a mass Quran burning to mark the 12th anniversary of Sept. 11. A press release from his organization “Stand …
Read More »Michael Prysner : ‘The Real Terrorist Was Me…’
navedz.com republishes the fragment of one of the most powerful anti-war speeches done by the former Corporal of the US Army in Iraq Michael Prysner at the 2008 Winter Soldier in Maryland. It is still relevant and sounding as ever. By Michael PRYSNER (USA) “I tried hard to be proud …
Read More »Malcolm X’s Letter from Makkah
The following is Malcolm X’s (al-Hajj, Malik al-Shabazz) letter to his assistants in Harlem during his pilgrimage to Makkah in April of 1964: Never have I witnessed such sincere hospitality and overwhelming spirit of true brotherhood as is practiced by people of all colors and races here in this ancient …
Read More »Obama’s extraordinary achievement in Iraq
– By Latheef Farook | Ceylon Today | 27, December, 2011 1,455,590 Iraqis killed Two million widows, five million orphans A quarter of the population lives in extreme poverty US President Barack Obama described the withdrawal of American forces from Iraq as “extraordinary achievement” and “mission accomplished”. The reality however, …
Read More »Prayers, taunts and weary resignation in Jerusalem
Source : The Independent – By Robert Fisk | 24-Sept-2011 So there I was, on the Via Dolorosa of course, chatting to a middle-aged guy in a red T-shirt and just a wisp of a beard with a prayer rug under his left arm.And I asked him, of course, what …
Read More »I Cannot Cheer You on Sister Rima Fakih, Miss USA 2010 : Too Much is at Stake
I Cannot Cheer You on Sister Rima Fakih, Miss USA 2010 : Too Much is at Stake by Hena Zuberi Source : www.muslimmatters.org As a Muslim woman, who is passionate about the using the best of our abilities to make this world a better place alongside our men, I cannot …
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