by MRN | Jan 1, 2013 | Archive 2012
A right-wing media pundit from the United States has called for all Muslims to be killed in a ‘sarcastic’ tweet made in response to the Boston Marathon bombings. Erik Rush, a regular on Fox News, appeared to attribute blame to Islamic extremists following yesterday’s...
by MRN | Jan 1, 2013 | Archive 2012
At first I thought I should not comment on the Boston bombings as it is obvious that we in Palestine, under siege and regular bombardment would clearly sympathize. But then I saw the usual pundits on mainstream media trying to spin the tragedy to serve racism. (By...
by MRN | Jan 1, 2013 | Archive 2012
Shortly after the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran toppled America’s favoured client state along with the peacock throne that its despot the Shah of Iran occupied, perpetrators of political violence were increasingly being described as ‘terrorists’. In 1980 the...
by MRN | Jan 1, 2013 | Archive 2012
The Zionist organization UN Watch has cited a commentary by Professor Richard Falk on the Boston bombings in a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon demanding that that Prof. Falk be reprimanded for it. Prof. Falk, who serves as the United Nations Special...
by MRN | Jan 1, 2013 | Archive 2012
Open letter to Asra Nomani by Omid Safi One of the items that I had listed was about a post by the Muslim journalist Asra Nomani, writing in The Washington Post in which she had cited the uncle of the brothers suspected in the Boston Marthon bombing as noting that the...
