Post Tagged with: "Palestine"

24Apr
2009

A Little Reminder from MSA West

By Nader Nasr In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful      The 11th Annual MSA West Conference was recently held at UC Riverside. For me personally, it was my first annual MSA West Conference, and to be perfectly honest, I was not as excited before the event as I should”ve been. When I had first registered for it, I was thinking, Man, a whole weekend wasted (stakhfar”Allah)1?, and I was arrogant and ignorant enough to believe that it really [...]

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9Feb
2009

Authoritarian Rule for Palestinians: a Step up from Apartheid

By: Habib Hamidi Authoritarian leaders subjugate their people to their absolute ways.  They expect everyone to follow their rules and what they deem as right.  Many times, they enforce their rules violently and make it known to their people that dissent is not tolerated. They promote their agendas through the media by stressing how deleterious it would be for the society as whole if they allowed the opposition to speak”that the national security and the life of the ordinary citizens [...]

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