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December 2005
December 30, 2005
Top American Muslim/Arab-American Radiation Hot Spots Reported by the FBI
By Riad Abdelkarim Note: the following are fictitious examples of real occurrences—we suspect! These days, it seems that truth is far stranger than fiction. Since a list of the targets of the recent widely reported warrantless radiation monitoring by federal...
December 29, 2005
Torture Lite: Michael Ignatieff’s Problematic Written Record
By Grace-Edward Galabuzi Controversial Canadian novelist and human rights scholar Michael Ignatieff is one of the Liberal Party's candidates for the 2006 federal election. In his response to Haroon Siddiqui’s opinion piece in the Toronto Star titled “Ignatieff now in...
December 25, 2005
Sleepless in Los Angeles: Showtime's "Sleeper Cell"
In spite of all its melodramatic hype, the more I watched, the more I was surprised to discover that this is one series that’s more intriguing for the things it gets right than it is for the things it gets wrong.
December 24, 2005
Bring Back the Christmas Cheer!
If as a member of a minority community, I am allowed to call my festivals Eid-ul-Fitr, Ramadan and Eid-ul Azha, why must Christians be censured for calling their festival Christmas or Easter? Why can't they call the tree, a Christmas tree?
December 19, 2005
Taking the Christ out of Christmas?
By Pamela K. Taylor Newport News, Va., is getting ready for their annual Christmas celebration, except they aren't calling it that. They're calling it Hollydazzle. And instead of lighting the Christmas Tree, they'll be lighting the “Tree of Illumination.” Who...
December 16, 2005
Is Australia a Racist Country?
By Najad Abdul-Aziz This piece is partially inspired by a comment from a reader arguing the concept of Arab victimhood: “At what point does one tire of the narcissism of Arab victimhood, and will we ever reach this point in...
December 9, 2005
Wrath of God? The Qur’anic View of Natural Calamities
On the basis of the Qur’an it is not correct to regard ordinary natural disasters as the acts of chastisement or punishment from God.
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