By YOUSEF DRUMMOND MOST of us had no recourse but to turn to media outlets throughout America, whether by radio or television, to commemorate Christian activist Dr. Martin Luther King’s legacy. Some of us may have listened to Dr. King’s signatory “I Have a Dream” speech for racial equality, which he himself delivered before the [...]
YVONNE RIDLEY I’M NOT sure if someone has given every village idiot my email or telephone number but it seems as though I’ve been inundated by fools who know nothing about Islam but think they do; those who should know better and don’t and various forms of pond life who attack Muslims with their every [...]
YVONNE RIDLEY THE West adored Benazir Bhutto. She, spoke fluent English, was educated at Harvard and Oxford and she was not an Islamic fundamentalist. There were no frenzied, flag-burning demonstrations where the main chant was: ‘death to America’ at any of her rallies. This endeared her to Western leaders in just the same way as [...]
By YOUSEF DRUMMOND CHRISTIAN civil-rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would have been 79 years old on January 15, 2008. There is no doubt in my mind that, had he been alive today, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham-Clinton would not have made such a silly comment. During a FOX News interview this past Monday, [...]
By JAWED ANWAR THE shocking news of the demise of Imam Mohammad Naseem in Houston, Texas, USA on December 27, 2007, stirred my memories. I recalled the morning in 2001when he was packing to move permanently to Houston. I was with him in his New York apartment as he packed. It was hard to believe [...]
By YOUSEF DRUMMOND LAST Saturday afternoon the Reverend Al Sharpton led a group of several hundred protesters outside the Riverhead, Suffolk County court where John White, a black man, was convicted of manslaughter. John White accidentally shot and killed a young white man, Daniel Cicciaro, Jr., who, with two other angry white teenagers, trespassed on [...]
By YOUSEF DRUMMOND WE can safely say with confidence that the mainstream media will not interpret the recent assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto as a strong reaction to a “universal liberal democratic project” throughout Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, and, ultimately, the entire Muslim world. This universalizing project appears to be a very promising [...]
