By YOUSEF DRUMMOND THERE has been a great deal of talk these days about the notion of “statehood” throughout the Middle East. There is talk about a Palestinian “state” and an Iraqi “state”, but little or no information as to the method in which it will be implemented or whether the “foreign publics” as Arabs [...]
By YOUSEF DRUMMOND DR. NAIM Akbar is currently a Muslim scholar and clinical psychologist who has written numerous books and have done extensive research that he hopes will insolubly link African-American spirituality with the African continent. Among his numerous studies is the legacy of Ramses III, whom he believes is the arrogant Egyptian Pharaoh that [...]
By BRUCE DIXON The star-studded hue and cry to "Save Darfur" and "stop the genocide" has gained enormous traction in U.S. media along with bipartisan support in Congress and the White House. But the Congo, with ten to twenty times as many African dead over the same period is not called“genocide” and passes almost unnoticed. [...]
By YOUSEF DRUMMOND AS A revert to the Muslim faith who resides here in America, I have undertaken an objective project that I hope will occupy my thoughts as well as others’ for some time to come: to understand, as best as possible, mitigating factors inhibiting daw’ah efforts here in the United States. America’s founding [...]
By YOUSEF DRUMMOND RELUCTANTLY, the U.S. Senate nominated Michael Mukasey as Attorney General of the United States a few weeks ago, even though he stopped short of declaring water boarding, an interrogation technique, a form of torture and therefore illegal under U.S. law. Among one of his rationales is he doesn’t know whether the U.S. [...]
