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Syria as a Game-Changer: US Political Impotence in the Middle East [ANALYSIS]  Indeed, the current American political impotence in the Middle East is unprecedented, at least since the rapid disintegration of the Soviet bloc in the early 1990's. More
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Brief History of the Islamic Center of Southern California (1952-1972) [FEATURE]  In the 1950-s the Islamic Center of Southern California was the only Mosque that was in existence in Los Angeles. It was located in a rented building on Fountain Avenue in city of Hollywood. More
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Mursi's visit to Russia. Obstacles and consequences [ANALYSIS]  The first meeting of the new Egyptian President Muhammad Mursi with the head of Russia Vladimir Putin, held in late April, was ambiguously estimated by Russian analysts and Muslims. More
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Know-Nothing Security [OPINION]  America's know-nothing security team - community and police in partnership against terrorism - succeeded in thwarting the non-threat of three Muslim students driving through Georgia, but completely failed to notice or be concerned about, and perhaps even participated in, actual threats of violence against, good God, a hospital.More
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Israel, Hawking and the Pressing Question of Boycott [OPINION]  Unlike other acts of boycott, sometimes dismissed by Israeli officials as insignificant, this one was manifestly shocking for Israel. Yigal Palmor, spokesman for Israel's Foreign Ministry was quoted by the New York Times saying "never has a scientist of this stature boycotted Israel."More
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The Sources of Identity in the Islamic Diaspora [COLUMN]  In the Islamic Diaspora, an unprecedented historical experience unfolded based upon the Diaspora of Enslavement. The European slave trade recon-figured African continental kinship dynamics and refocused the paradigm in the African Diaspora from ethnic consciousness to racial consciousness.More
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A Code of Conduct for Establishing and Using Mosques [COLUMN]  Establishing, building and utilizing mosques call for establishing a delicate balance between sophistication in mosque architecture and avoiding some major transgressions often associated with the built environment.More
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Mother's Day Proclamation [FEATURE]  Contrary to popular belief, Mother`s Day was not conceived by the card maker Hallmark ..More
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The Pain of Bangladesh: T-shirts Made with Blood and Tears [FEATURE]  Images of the devastation dominated the news for days after the eight-storey building collapsed on top of nearly 3,000 cheap laborers who were already trapped in another sense - in the endless poverty and exploitation of factory owners.More
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Indefinite Enemies [OPINION]  We can, however, raid their homes, take out their leaders with drone strikes, rattle our symbolic sabers at defiant heads of state and maintain a gulag of bad, bad people, who have virtually zero rights. More
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