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The Tipping Point: Where Tolerance Ends

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By Lee A. Daniels
The Muslim-American residents of Murfreesboro, Tennessee have discovered this summer they’re not as “American” as they perhaps thought they were.
Not in the hearts and minds of some of their non-Muslim neighbors, anyway.
And so, they now find themselves on the other side – the bad side – of the “tipping point.”
In terms of [...]



Obama’s New American First: The President as ‘The Other’

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By Lee A. Daniels
Today, American society is flooded with virulent, racially-driven images and rhetoric hurled against the President, saturated with the demonizing of undocumented Latino immigrants and calls for scrapping the constitutional protection all children born in America should enjoy, and degraded by cynical assertions that guilt-by-association is valid principle to apply to people who are not white



Toward a New View of Muslim Women

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By Nura Sediqe
President Obama’s words in his June 4 address in Cairo, Egypt have brought a refreshing change in the rhetoric that is commonly utilized when discussing women and Islam. They were only a few simple lines in a long and extensive speech addressing a variety of pressing policy issues, but for Muslim women like myself, there was a pause….while we were all thinking, “Did he really just say that?”



Al Qaeda and Malcolm X: Seeking Fiction, Not Truth

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By Stacey Patton:
“In the past, yes, I have made sweeping indictments of all white people.  I will
never be guilty of that again . . . True Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious,
political, economic, psychological and racial ingredients, or characteristics, to make
the Human Family and Human society complete.”
– Malcolm X
How do you [...]