Eric Holder Must End FBI’s Abuses Against American Muslims

Mar 27

Huffington Post, March 26, 2009 A recent headline on CNN read, “FBI planting spies in U.S. mosques,” Muslim groups allege. This outrage was sparked by revelations that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had sent an agent provocateur into a mosque in southern California who was coercing worshippers in becoming informants and inciting them to make...

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FBI Should Not Involve Themselves in Political Theatre

Mar 19

An edited version was first published in Fayetteville Observor on March 19, 2009 In January 2009, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) told Fox News that it severing its ties with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a leading American Muslim organization. A month later, I was surprised to see a FBI agent stop by my office in Jacksonville seeking...

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Music, a bridge over troubled waters

Mar 19

Source: Common Ground News Service (CGNews), 17 March 2009 Jacksonville, Florida – The noted Indian poet and Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore said, “Music fills the infinite between two souls”. I experienced this while attending a recital by Choir Al Farah, a musical group that aims to highlight the reality and the possibility of Christians,...

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Understanding the Current U.S. Economic Crisis and it Impact on Muslims

Mar 05

Orginal Published in Islamic Horizons, Mar-Apr, 2009. The State of U.S. Economy On the verge of taking over the Presidency of the United States of America, Barack Obama described the U.S. economy as “very sick” with the situation “getting worse.” This worry is best reflected in the fact that U.S. unemployment rate now stands at 7.2 percent,...

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Can the US Stimulus Plan Save American Economy?

Mar 05

Orginal Published in IslamOnline, March 4, 2009 On Tuesday Feb 17, U.S. President Barack Obama signed into law $787 billion stimulus package, a measure he described as, “the most sweeping economic recovery package in our history.” Almost 38 percent of spending bill contains various tax-cuts to individuals and businesses with the remaining 62 percent...

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