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It is open season on Muslims in the US. In the wake of the triple murder in White Chapel (NC) last month, a recent immigrant from Iraq was shot and killed in Dallas, TX as he watched his first snowflakes in life while his wife took photographs. Islamophobia is running rampant and no Muslim seems to be safe in America anymore.

The American spy agency, CIA, is going rogue, officially. It no longer feels the need to indulge in illegal acts covertly; the gloves are off and the whole world will now be under total surveillance. How long before everyone is under US lock down because some warmonger in Washington feels an individual, group or country poses a “threat” to US interests?

There are strong indications that Hamas-Iran relations have gone back to their old warmth. These had been marred by Hamas' negative attitude over the crisis in Syria. Now that it has become apparent that the conspiracy to overthrow Bashar al Asad's government has failed, Hamas has sobered up. This is a positive development.

The Saudi regime and its court system are run by primitive savages. This was proved yet again when a gang-rape victim was sentenced to 200 lashes and six-month jail term for speaking to the media against the court verdict. The rapists--seven men--got away lightly.

Zafar Bangash, Director of Contemporary Islamic Thought Institute, says Iranian Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, adopts a light and kind tone in his letter to the youth in the West with the aim of promoting the Islamic moderation and warning against the rise of extremism in the name of Islam.

أسهبنا في القسم الأول في تتبُّع الخلفية التاريخية للمصطلح واشتقاقاته، وفي هذا القسم نتتبع أثره، وأسباب استخدامه، لتكتمل الأطروحة. لقد عبَّر استخدام لفظة “إسلامي” ليس عن طاريء لغوي فحسب، ولا عن مُجرَّد أدلجة جعلت من الإسلام أداة لمحاربة المذاهب البشرية ومنافستها على أرضيّتها الوضعيّة؛ بل عبَّر عن تغيُّرٍ أعمق اعترى الحركة الإسلاميّة في التصوّر والاعتقاد. ما يُمكن تسميته ب”الأثر السلفي” أو “الأثر السعودي”. وعلى عكس ما يتوهَّم العلمانيون والمراقبون والباحثون الغربيون؛ فقد كان جوهر ذلك الأثر تشوُّهًا في الرؤية وتسطيحًا للتصوّر الإسلامي للجيل الذي عاش في السعودية وأكشاك الخليج، وتاجر فيها ومعها؛ إذ تم دمجه بهديه الظاهر في منظومة الاقتصاد الرأسمالي، ولو على يسار تلك المنظومة؛

Turkey's involvement in supporting the takfiri terrorists in Syria has been talked about but only now has it been officially acknowledge. A statement from the Office of the Governor of Denizli province confirmed that a terrorist commander injured in Syria had been admitted to hospital in Denizli and was receiving treatment there.

Islamic Iran's negotiators have made clear that if the P5+1 group of countries led by the US are really serious about a deal over Tehran's nuclear program, then all sanctions must be lifted. The latest round of talks have been underway in the Swiss city of Montreux. Iran's Foreign Minister Dr Javad Zarif and his US counterpart met yesterday and talks are continuing at expert level today. March 31 has been set as a deadline for a deal.

Benjamin Netanyahu is supremely arrogant. He displayed his arrogance--and hypocrisy--once again when he came to address the US Congress without even consulting the White House. Barack Obama was visibly upset at such an insult. Netanyahu thinks he can insult the American president and get away with it. He came to rant about Iran's non-existent nuclear bomb program. What hypocrisy when the Zionist regime has 400 nuclear bombs!

طالب مجلس العلاقات الأمريكية الإسلامية، في بيان صحفي أصدره شهر يناير 2013؛ وسائل الإعلام الأمريكية بالتوقُّف عن استخدام مصطلح “الإسلاميين Islamists”،مُشيرًا إلى أنه يُستخدم في سياق الازدراء والتحقير مقرونين بالتطرُّف؛ مما يُضفي ظلالًا شديدة السلبيّة على المدلول. وقال المجلس أن الربط بين اصطلاح “الإسلاميين” ومظاهر التشدُد والعنف وحرمان اﻵخر من الحقوق الدينية والمدنيّة؛ هي رؤية يُروّج لها المعادون للإسلام. ودعا المجلس الإعلام للاقتداء بوكالة أسوشيتد برس الأمريكية؛ التي عرّفت “الإسلاميين”، عام 2012؛ بأنهم “من يؤيدون الحكم وفقًا للقوانين الإسلامية”. ورأى البيان أن استخدام المصطلح دون تعريف واضح يعني إصدار أحكام دينية وسياسيّة نهائيّة بحق الموصوف في كل مرة يتم استخدامه.