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Ahmad Al-Akhras, PhD. - The Watch List Through the Prism of Global War on Terrorism

By Mary Rizzo • Jun 5th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Features, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

Ahmad Al-Akhras has a collection of his boarding passes for the past four plus years. Most of these boarding passes were marked for “secondary screening.” Dr. Al-Akhras is the Vice Chairman of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, CAIR. He can be reached at ahmad@alakhras.org
Like racial profiling, the so-called Watch List hinges on a false premise [...]



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 [...]