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Mahmood Mamdani - on the Good Muslim, Bad Muslim

By Mary Rizzo • May 22nd, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Features, Interviews, Religion, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War

Back in 2005, the Italian weekly magazine Il venerdì della Repubblica published an important interview with Columbia University Professor Mahmood Mamdani, upon occasion of the publication in Italian of his book Good Muslim, Bad Muslim. At the time, I translated the interview into English, as well as publishing on my blog a segment from another [...]


Swindler’s List

By Gilad Atzmon • Apr 11th, 2008 • Category: Culture and Heritage, Gilad's Choice, Religion, Zionism

It is a common trend amongst rabid Zionists and notorious Islamophobes to quote some isolated and mistranslated verses from the Qur’an for the purpose of collectively libeling Muslims and presenting Islam as a regressive and violent belief system.
Needless to say, so far, such repetitive attempts have been found futile if not actually counter-effective. Not a [...]