It is a late afternoon and a crowd mostly made up of Tea Party members are standing outside a community center protesting against a meeting that Muslims from their community are having, shouting all sorts of degrading remarks about Islam, Muslims and the beloved Prophet Muhammad (saw). What was surprising about this event was that…
As Arab dictators in the Middle East are falling one by one like dominoes, it is just mind boggling to see the billions they had tucked away for all these decades. Hosni Mubarak resigned with $70 billion in US and European banks, not including his bank accounts in other countries or real estate. Former Tunisian…
Last Monday, the head of the International Union for Muslim Scholars, Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, issued a fatwa saying that it is permissible for anyone to kill the Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi because of his mass murders and heinous crimes against the people of Libya. As much as I agree that Gaddafi should be punished for…
Yes, it is time for Mubarak to go. And the people of Egypt not only want to make sure Mubarak makes his exit from Egypt, but for his entire regime to leave. As the Egyptian government has shut down all internet and social media services, limited cellular and SMS/text messaging communication, and tried to limit…