"EULESS — A North Texas apartment complex is facing accusations that it segregates Muslims in buildings away from other tenants — or refuses to rent to them at all."
Arab-Americans Aim to Increase Their Census Count - Newsweek.com
"Ten years ago, when Sarah Kazem's dad filled out the U.S. Census form for the household, he racially identified his family of Egyptian descent as "white" when he answered the question on race. But this time around, Kazem, a 22-year-old Michigan resident, is going to make sure her dad marks "Some Other Race" and write in "Arab" instead.
"Why are we marking white when we're Arab?" she asks. But that is how the Census counts Arabs. After 20th-century Syrian immigrants won citizenship as "whites," Uncle Sam applied the label to all Arabs. To change that, a California-based group of Arab-American leaders formed the Arab Complete Count Committee and launched a campaign dubbed "Check It Right, You Ain't White." The campaign-which has been circulated nationally through the Web-is an attempt to get people of Arab origin to write in their true ancestry."Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjKXnJSyS4o
Obama signs extension of Patriot Act - USATODAY.com
If you're surprised, I don't think you've been paying attention! There has been NO CHANGE since Bush and there is NO HOPE in Obama.
Heckling Oren at UCI was right | israel, speech, oren - Opinion - The Orange County Register
ACTION ALERT: UC Riverside student Taher Herzallah has written a moving and powerful defense of his and other students' protest of Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren. If ever there was a time to write a vigorous letter to the editor it is now for this courageous student whose family lost so much in Israel's invasion of Gaza. He is likely to come under intense criticism in Orange County, but we can offset this with our own letters. Please write your letter today to the Orange County Register. E-mails should go to letters@ocregister.com. Please provide your name and telephone number (telephone numbers will not be published). Letters of about 200 words will be given preference. Letters will be edited for length, grammar and clarity.
"[Efraim Karsh] hopes that the "Islamic nation can make peace with the idea of Jewish statehood in the House of Islam." It's not about Jewish statehood in the house of Islam. It's about Zionist Jewish settlers dispossessing the Palestinians and occupying Palestinian land. And killing Palestinians. It's not a religious conflict. It's a territorial one, an anti-colonial one, a national liberation struggle, even if the discourse used these days to describe it is often religious."
Abercrombie hates your hijab - Broadsheet - Salon.com
What else do you expect from the company that proudly markets t-shirts offensive to women and Asians?
Israel, Arab nations trade despite ban
"Feiler, who has written a business guide to Israel in Arabic, refused to give more than rough outlines of the trade, which he supports. Israeli exports to Arab countries, he said, are mostly from three categories: agricultural equipment, such as for irrigation - a field in which Israel leads the world; animal vaccines and "technological knowledge and components" - about which he refused to elaborate."
Inside view is worth risk, reporters in Iran say - Los Angeles Times
" Some Western news outlets rely solely on electronic communications to report on important events in Iran. Journalists in Tehran describe the approach as problematic.
"Who would cover London from Kiev?" said the longtime Tehran correspondent. "Being far away, in a different time zone, even, and relying on Internet sources, it might seem like you are getting good stuff out, but read those stories some months later. Many turn out to have been exaggerated because the sources were emotionally too involved.""Sinan Antoon: ‘I don’t want to be the native informant’ - The National Newspaper
"“Life for a displaced Arab writer, if you want to, if you’re willing to exoticise yourself and self-orientalise, life is very good and very profitable,” he says. “I jokingly say I can be famous for nine months in America. I write a novel about being a little Christian boy growing up in Iraq.” But he isn’t about to do that.
“I don’t want to be the native informant,” he says. “There is increased interest in the Arab world. But I call it forensic interest. For the most part it’s bad, because it’s assumed that novels and poems are going to explain September 11 to you. For example, I got a phone call from someone who says, ‘I want you to speak about agriculture in Iraq’. I was like, ‘Why would I know anything about agriculture in Iraq?’ But it’s assumed that as an oriental subject I would just know everything about my culture and civilisation.”"
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2 comments:
I pretty much gave up on this administration after they extended the Patriot Act. He really is Bush-lite. I was hoping for more than that.
Also, what were the t-shirts offensive to women and Asians? I hadn't heard about that.
Ian - see here.
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