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If a Muslim is involved in any violent activity, it is called terrorism. If there is a non-Muslim, it is not terrorism! This has become the standard fare with law enforcement agencies, government officials and the media in most Western countries. Nor surprising then, that an average person believes the allegation that all Muslims are not terrorists but all terrorists are Muslims! Read on...

The US is involved in a slick game to hoodwink war weary Americans about its true intentions in Afghanistan. Despite repeatedly announcing that US combat mission in Afghanistan ended in December 2014, it is still continuing. The US has kept 10,000 or more troops and these are likely to remain in the country beyond 2016.

Dr. Aafia Siddiqui's case is a burning ember that will continue to burn the conscience of the Muslims; and particularly the Muslims living in the United States. Her tragic plight exposes the secular government in Pakistan and the "Islamic" organizations: both share a common silence about her plight — a silence that amounts to complicity and a crime against humanity.

The US is addicted to war regardless of who is in the White House--a Democrat or Republican. There is also increasing opposition to such wars as yesterday's protest rallies in LA and Washington DC showed. Organizations such as ANSWER and CodePink have stood up to the warmongers and mobilized public opinion. More Americans need to join such rallies to end the violence and aggression.

Muslims are under pressure and suffer oppression virtually everywhere. We look at the situation of Muslims in Georgia by interviewing Mirtagi Asadov, Chariman of the Supreme Administration of Georgian Muslims.

Women are greatly oppressed in Afghanistan's tribal society but the lynching and burning of a 27-year-old woman in Kabul has horrified people worldwide. In Kabul, women took the unprecedented step of carrying the coffin of the victim, Farkhunda, to the cemetery amid calls for the arrest and punishment of the culprits and the police that stood by watching the mob perpetrate the crime.

The takfiri terrorists backed by the primitive Saudi regime only know how to destroy and kill. Their latest outrage was committed in Sana'a, Yemen's capital, where two takfiri suicide bombers in a hurry to go to hell, blew themselves up inside two mosques killing 130 people as they had gathered for Jumuah (Friday) Prayers. Hundreds of others were badly injured. The takfiris claimed responsibility for the attack, as reported by the BBC.

وإذا كان مكدونالد يفتتح فروعًا خاصّة بالمترفين في أماكن تجمعهم، وقد لا توجد على لائحة فروعه العلنية، فإن الفروع العلنية نفسها تخضع الجودة فيها لتدرّج هرمي حسب الشرائح والطبقات المخاطبة وأماكن وجود هذه الفروع. لكن المنتج المصري المقلّد للنمط لا يمكنه بناء مثل هذه الازدواجية في معايير الجودة لسببين: أولهما أنه ليس بماركة عالمية ذات ألق يحفظ عليها الطلب مهما انحدرت القاعدة الطبقية المستهلكة لمنتجاتها، وثانيهما ينبني على الأول؛ ذلك أنه يعيد تشكيل هويّته كل فترة، ليس بناء على معايير صارمة مفروضة من أصحاب العلامة التجارية في الخارج؛ ولكن استنادًا للواقع وللصورة الذهنيّة التي شكّلها المجتمع عنه. لهذا تنطفيء الماركات المحلّية بأسرع مما تنطفيء الماركات العابرة للقارات، وربما كان الأمل الوحيد للمنتج المحلي في إعادة إنتاج هويّة تجاريّة أكثر قوة واستقرارًا؛

Harper's cynical fear-mongering and Islamophobic rantings to push through the oppressive Bill C-51 have not gone unchallenged. On March 14, tens of thousands of Canadians rallied in 70 cities across Canada to oppose the bill. It is a serious assault on Canadian civil liberties and will criminalize dissent. Here is Ken Stone's presentation at the Hamilton & District Labour Council held in the Council chambers of Hamilton City Hall.

You can run but you can't hide seems to be the message being delivered by one ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh to another, Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi. The Saudis forced Saleh to resign in February 2012; the Houthis drove Hadi from power last month and put him under house arrest in Sana'a. Hadi fled to Aden making it his temporary capital but trouble seems to have followed him there as today's attack on Aden Airport showed.