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Netanyahu's
"argument was long on appeals
to emotion – he pointed out
Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel
in the audience while calling
Iran a 'dark and murderous
regime' – and short on facts
and reasonable alternatives"
...
... "I’ve never seen anything like
that press conference by House
Democrats… Full rejection of the
propriety & substance of
Netanyahu’s speech" -- Matt Lee
of AP:
"The hawkish Israeli Lobby’s massive
strength in Congress depends for its
power upon a myth—that it represents
nearly all American Jews. Instead,
today it depends upon others,
especially Bible Belt Republican
evangelicals—... [but] the idea of
imminent Armageddon is wearing thin"
...
... "The [Israeli] lobby’s
power is waning because ... Jews
are no longer monolithic on
Israel. Ideas of Jewish
nationalism and separation are as
discredited by the Israeli
experiment as Communism was by the
Soviet one. Young Jews are
bridling ... and Netanyahu has
fostered that, [G]od bless him":
Last words form the beloved Jewish
actor recall that as with the
characters in Theodore Sturgeon's
Star Trek episode "Let This Be
your Last Battlefield",
Palestinians and Israelis are
"prepared to battle to the death
to defend the memory of their
people who died from the
atrocities committed by the
other":
Why is it so hard for the press to
admit that a beloved hero is a
Muslim? A great athlete is now
hailed as "a new kind of public
intellectual" in an article whose
single allusion to the beloved
man's Muslim faith is an oblique
reference to his observance of the
Hajj pilgrimage as "visiting
Mecca" (!):
They call this secularism. Muslims
"are estimated to be 60 percent of
the 67,000 inmates in French
prisons ... [but only] about 182
Muslim prison chaplains [compared
to] about 562 Christian chaplains,
a disparity largely attributed to
the country’s Roman Catholic
history and traditions":
"IS not only misreads the texts it
cites, most clerics say, it also
ignores Quranic verses and a long
body of clerical scholarship
requiring mercy, preservation of
life and protection of innocents,
and setting out rules of war — all
of which are binding under Islamic
Shariah law" ...
... yet, "Saudi Arabia embraces the
same capital punishment techniques
on convicted criminals as the
Islamic terrorist group does on
innocent hostages":
After past abuse of
vaccination programs to gather
intelligence for foreign assassins
has terrified parents to the point
that there were 306 new polio
cases in Pakistan last year ,
the government resorts to
incarceration to force parents to
submit to the program:
[12/26/14] Dr. Ahmad's notes from
the panel on“Ethics inMaqasid al-Shari’ah,Politics,
and Policy” with
Prof. Jasser Auda and Prof. Jonathan
Brown, moderated by
Prof. Carl W. Ernst at the 2014 IIIT
conference on Islamic Law and Ethics
are now available on our blog.
[12/26/14] Dr. Ahmad's notes from
the special lectureon "Pluralism in Islamic Ethics”
by Prof. Carl W. Ernst at the 2014 IIIT
conference on Islamic Law and Ethics
are now available on our blog.
[12/14/14] Dr. Ahmad's notes from
thepanel on“Reform of
Higher Education in the Muslim
World” withErmin
Sinanović, Prof. Abdulaziz
Sachedina, and Prof. Ebrahim Moosa
at the 2014 IIIT
conference on Islamic Law and Ethics
are now available on our blog.
[12/12/14] MFI's Dr. Imad-ad-Dean
Ahmad and Prof. Sulayman Nyang are
quoted in "A
Vision of Jerusalem for All Faiths"
in Middle East Eye answering
the Chief Rabbi of the IDF's
assertion that Jerusalem is never
mentioned in the Qur'an.
on this site 