December, 2009

• 7 December

  An American Millionaire Becomes Muslim,

  An American millionaire, Mark Shaffer declared his Islam in Saudi Arabia on Saturday, 17th October 2009. Mark was at that time on a holiday in Saudi Arabia to visit some famous cities like Riyadh , Abha and Jeddah for 10 days. Mark is a well-known millionaire and also a practiced lawyer in Los Angeles , specializing in cases of civil …

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• 6 December

  “We Will Have To Kill Them All”: Effie Eitam,Thug Messiah, By Jim Holstun & Irene Morrison

  Colonel Efraim (Fein) Eitam was only following orders when he told his troops to beat Ayyad Aqel in 1988. They beat him to death. Eitam, who since then has held several senior posts in the Israeli government, has recently toured the US as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “Special Emissary” to the “Caravan for Democracy” program of the Jewish National …

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• 5 December

  Why They Hate Us, By Stephen M. Walt

  How many Muslims has the U.S. killed in the past 30 years? December 01, 2009 “FP” —  Tom Friedman had an especially fatuous column in Sunday’s New York Times, which is saying something given his well-established capacity for smug self-assurance. According to Friedman, the big challenge we face in the Arab and Islamic world is “the Narrative” — his patronizing …

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• 4 December

  OBAMA GAMBLES ON HISTORIC GRAVEYARD

  After wavering for three months and holding ten crisis meetings with top officials, US President Barack Obama on Tuesday announced a decision his chief commanding officer in Afghanistan wanted him to take. He agreed to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, disappointing a section of the population who voted him into office last year in the hope that he would …

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• 3 December

  Whose Country is it Anyway?, By Dayan Jayatilleka

  Three perspectives on Sri Lankan identity [Slightly revised version of the 12th Bakeer Markar Memorial lecture on ‘Challenges to Strengthening Sri Lankan Identity’, delivered on Nov 17, 2009 by Dr Dayan Jayatilleka, former Ambassador/Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations at Geneva]. (December 02, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) When Imthiaz extended this invitation to me, it was impossible …

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• 2 December

  One day the wall will fall in the Arab world, By Rami G. Khouri

  The 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall Monday passed very quietly in the Arab world, because the meaning of the wall’s fall – the transition from total state control to human freedom – also bypassed the Arab world. Not the Islamic world, or the Middle East, but the Arab world. For many reasons, the Arab world collectively …

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• 1 December

  Swiss ban mosque minarets in surprise vote

  The referendum by the nationalist Swiss People’s Party labelled minarets as symbols of rising Muslim political power that could one day transform Switzerland into an Islamic nation. Geneva: Swiss voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional ban on minarets on Sunday, barring construction of the iconic mosque towers in a surprise vote that put Switzerland at the forefront of a European backlash …

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