Articles tagged with: Obama
Our guest blogger is Akil Vohra, Counsel at Muslim Advocates, who is leading the Muslim Charities Works Program aimed to strengthen the Muslim nonprofit sector and reform hurdles to charitable giving.
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By Scott Wilson
Rashad Hussain, President Obama’s new special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference, was an avid high school debater in Plano, Tex., where he grew up.
His debate partner and best friend was …
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TSA and Obama are on the case, with Cheney waiting in the …
By Glenn Greenwald
There is clearly a concerted effort by the Government to claim loudly that the threat posed by radicalized American Muslims is increasing. Last week, The Los Angeles Times published a lengthy, scary story under the …
By Leslie Harris
President and CEO of the Center for Democracy & Technology
Yesterday [October 8, 2009], the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to reauthorize three expiring provisions in the USA PATRIOT Act. While the bill they passed …
Only Obama, it seems, fails to get the message that we’re losing Afghanistan
By Robert Fisk
Obama and Osama are at last participating in the same narrative. For the US president’s critics – indeed, …
Civil Rights Conference:
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2009 – Valparaiso University School of Law, Indiana, USA
Welcome: Professor Penelope Andrews, Valparaiso University School of Law, Conference Organizer
Introduction: Professor JoEllen Lind, Valparaiso University School of Law, Associate Dean …
By Fawaz Gerges
ISPU Fellow
After smiling broadly for the TV cameras and complimenting one another, U.S. President Barack Obama and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak provided little food for thought about what really transpired between them in …
By Fawaz A. Gerges
ISPU Fellow
Since his inauguration, President Obama has reiterated his commitment to engaging Muslim societies and altering Muslims’ negative perceptions of the United States. Time and again, the new president has stressed that …
By Paul Koring
The “global war on terrorism” is over and calling it that was a bad idea, President Barack Obama’s counterterrorism adviser said Thursday.
The phrase, coined by former president George W. Bush and often rendered …
By Nader Hashemi
On June 4, 2009, President Obama will travel to Egypt to deliver his long-awaited speech on relations between the United States and the Muslim world. From the outset the venue has been …
By HADEEL AL-SHALCHI and KARIN LAUB
CAIRO, Egypt – Respect for Islam, a prescription for Palestinian statehood and assurances of a speedy U.S. pullout from Iraq — that’s what Muslims from Morocco to Malaysia …
By Haroon Siddiqui
There was the American overreach under George W. Bush. Now there’s Barack Obama’s outreach to the Muslim world.
On Wednesday, he will be in Saudi Arabia to meet King Abdullah. On Thursday, he …
By PAUL KORING
May 14, 2009
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama, jettisoning previous pledges of openness, ordered a new court battle yesterday to keep secret photographs of U.S. soldiers abusing prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Allowing publication of …
