Wafa Sultan's Attacks Will Not Bring Positive Change
I'm a practicing Muslim. I'm peaceful. I don't have any intention of killing off non-Muslims, and I don't believe my religion asks me to.

What Would Prophet Muhammad Have Done?
This posturing by Arab governments and Islamist movements is not in the tradition of Islam. These zealots should ask the question: What would Prophet Muhammad have done when faced with this insult?

A Mountain Out of a Molehill Over Danish Cartoons
By Mona Eltahawy Can we finally admit that Muslims have blown out of all proportion their outrage over 12 cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad published in a Danish newspaper last September? In the latest twist, both the Organization for the...

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.

Race Has Nothing To Do With It...Right?
By Najad Abdul-Aziz Undoubtedly, an array of articles will be published politicising the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina, using it against the Bush administration. Bring it on. That is because this disaster should be politicised, analysed, stripped bare exposing the...

The Quran Abuse Fiasco
By Mona Eltahawy It is difficult to say who comes out looking the worst in the fiasco over the Newsweek Quran episode. But it would be too easy to dismiss the whole affair as just the latest in a string...

Flushing the Koran: Newsweek got it Right
By Joshua Frank White House staffers scurried this past week to souse the flames sparked by Newsweek's recent story, which revealed that an internal US military investigation had found substantial evidence interrogators at Guantanamo Bay had desecrated the Koran. Newsweek's...

‘The Muslims Are Coming! The Muslims Are Coming!’
"24" conjures an image of the Arabs in this country as leather wearing, squinting, bad parents, who are out to get you.

The '24' Conundrum
It is the case, unfortunately, that some angry Americans don't distinguish between terrorists and law-abiding American Muslims.

Out of the Box in America: On the ‘Natalism’ Phenomenon
Natalism is about constructing an identity, one that privileges parenthood as the most elevated human activity.

Andy Warhol at Abu Ghraib
The War in Iraq is a living historical moment and, yet, many of the images coming from this particular place are diffuse, contextless, agentless, or nonexistent.

Meeting with Maysoon: America's First Muslim Female Comic Discusses Palestine, the Good Side of Ashcroft, and Why an ABC Reporter Thought She Needed Therapy
Thanks, Mr. Ashcroft, for getting together all the Arab men under 35 in one place for my viewing pleasure.

Writer Issues Call for 'Appropriate Actions' Against MWU!, Accuses Us of 'Sowing Terror'
The author begins his parade of lies with the claim that the Neocons have forged an alliance with "opportunists" calling themselves moderate, liberal, and progressive. So there you have it--if you consider yourself any of these, then watch out--you're in bed with the Neocons and you didn't even know it.

Canada’s Media and Muslim Organizations Ignore Country’s First Muslim Woman Elected to Parliament
The question is this: How could the national media miss such a historic milestone for Canada's 600,000-strong Muslim community?

Doctor Hate
The latest tirade by conservative pop psychologist Dr. Laura Schlessinger—her degree is actually in physiology, but who cares about credentials in this era of AWOL-guardsmen-turned-commanders-in-chief--is worthy of mention, if only to illustrate the level of acceptability that this kind of drivel against Muslims/Arabs/South Asians (haters are not big on making fine distinctions between Muslims, Christian Arabs, or Indian Sikhs) garners these days.

Why Do Those People in Toledo Hate America So Much? The National Media's Fear of Reporting the Truth
The media blackout of the Tiger Force story is indicative of the state of corporate journalism in this country. The real embarrassing question to the national media here is not just about their lack of coverage; it is why did it take a small newspaper in Toledo to break this story? Where were the legion of New York Times, Washington Post, and TV network reporters?

Through Different Lenses
Why do so many people around the world, the vast majority of the people on this planet, see things so differently from the majority of Americans when it comes to Iraq?

America in Wonderland
I’m sure that many Americans were shocked and awed by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his patently absurd reference to the Fourth Geneva Convention in regard to the American POWs. I’m not sure how the man manages to keep a straight face during his speeches. Perhaps that’s why he’s often seen darting away from the cameras. President George W. Bush also could not help but offer his own share of non sequitur logic and commented that if Iraq is holding POWs then he expects them to be treated well.

Death Before Dying: A Retired Lebanese Officer Tells Why He Is Going to Iraq
I could no longer take sitting around for hours as if drugged, or like an idiot, in font of the satellite TV channels, watching my people being killed by bombing raids, or under the rubble of their destroyed homes.

Sending Wimps to Baghdad? Or Why Opposing the War Is Supporting the Troops
The United States has managed to convince the whole world that Iraq has to be bombed. Um, well, they have convinced four other countries. Absent from the Coalition of the Killing are the US’s two neighbors (Canada and Mexico), all but two of its NATO allies and every other country on earth.

Sydney-Slickers Meet Forrest Gump at South Park
By Irfan Yusuf Picture this. I am sitting at my best mate Don’s place in the inner suburbs of Sydney. We have just had dinner, prepared by Carol, his lovely Chinese-Australian wife. And we move to his lounge-room to watch...