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Saturday, March 12, 2011
Colbert: Reza Aslan Reza Aslan thinks Peter King's hearings to investigate Muslim radicalization are a useless enterprise. (06:36)
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/377121/march-10-2011/reza-aslan?xrs=share_copy
Colbert: Peter King Understands Violent Radicalism
Friday, March 11, 2011
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Daily Show: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Sharia? Peter King may have ties to the IRA, but he believes that Muslim Americans should be investigated for failing to denounce terrorist organizations.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
The hearings sponsored by Peter King and the campaign against sharia are two sides of the same Islamophobic coin.
Peter King is not entirely to blame, of course, for the resurgence of Islamophobia. Liberals have played a role, too. "The right-wing hardliners set the framework that Muslims are a backwards, evil, anti-American group, then the liberals say that some of the Muslims are nice, some of them don’t oppress their women," explains Raed Jarrar in an interview with him and Niki Akhavan in the FPIF special focus on Islamophobia. "This is like one person saying, 'I think all black people are thieves' and another person says 'I don’t believe that all black people are thieves.' If you are using that as a reference point, then you are actually reaffirming the framework."http://www.ips-dc.org/articles/chicken_a_la_king
via Wajahat
New Book by Charles Kurzman: The Missing Martyrs: Why There Are So Few Muslim Terrorists - Oxford University Press, USA (July 12, 2011)
Why are there so few Muslim terrorists? With more than a billion Muslims in the world--many of whom supposedly hate the West and ardently desire martyrdom--why don't we see terrorist attacks every day? Where are the missing martyrs?
In this startlingly counterintuitive book, a leading authority on Islamic movements demonstrates that terrorist groups are thoroughly marginal in the Muslim world. Charles Kurzman draws on government sources, public opinion surveys, election results, and in-depth interviews with Muslims in the Middle East and around the world. He finds that young Muslims are indeed angry with what they see as imperialism--and especially at Western support for local dictatorships. But revolutionary Islamists have failed to reach them, as can be seen from the terrorists' own websites and publications, which constantly bemoan the dearth of willing recruits.
Kurzman notes that it takes only a small cadre of committed killers to wreak unspeakable havoc. But that very fact underscores his point. As easy as terrorism is to commit, few Muslims turn to violence. Out of 140,000 murders in the United States since 9/11, Islamist terrorists have killed at most three dozen people. Of the 150,000 people who die each day, worldwide, Islamist militants account for fewer than fifty fatalities--and only ten per day outside of the hotspots of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan. The real bulwark against Islamist violence, Kurzman finds, is Muslims themselves, who reject both the goals of the terrorists and their bloody means. With each bombing, the terrorists lose support among Muslims.
Incisive and authoritative, The Missing Martyrs provides much-needed corrective to deep-seated and destructive misconceptions about Muslims and the Islamic world. The threat of Islamist terrorism is real, Kurzman shows, but its dimensions are, so far, tightly confined.
About the Author
Charles Kurzman is a professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His books include Democracy Denied and The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran.http://www.amazon.com/dp/0199766878/ref=cm_sw_r_fa_dp_UBRDnb03YFJP1
via Wajahat
Monday, March 7, 2011
Imam Zaid Shakir: What Went Wrong? Funny You Should Ask
On Nicholas Kristof's piece "Is Islam the Problem?" (March 5, 2011)
http://www.newislamicdirections.com/nid/notes/what_went_wrong_funny_you_should_ask1/
http://www.newislamicdirections.com/nid/notes/what_went_wrong_funny_you_should_ask1/
Sunday, March 6, 2011
TPD officers flood Islamic Society event
Nice video and short article about a Muslim community in Tulsa, Oklahoma and their hosting a "law enforcement appreciation day" that was well attended
http://www.kjrh.com/dpp/news/local_news/tpd-officers-flood-islamic-society-event
http://www.kjrh.com/dpp/news/local_news/tpd-officers-flood-islamic-society-event
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