Arab Writers Group Syndicate

Obama “controversies” bring out America’s underlying race problems
By Ray Hanania – Some people say the controversy surrounding presidential nominee Barack Obama is about his policies and his controversial associates. But the real issues underlying everything in this presidential election is race and the failure of America’s to really get past the racial divide that up until the late 1960s was characterized by hatred, violence and a Black-White divide. Read more »

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Rev. Wright crosses line but is wrongly disparaged
By Ray Hanania – Barack Obama’s pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr., is only saying what many Americans who are victimized by ongoing American racism and hatred believe deep down. It’s just that when you are a victim of American-style hate, and when your voices are intentionally shut-out because of your race and your religion, you sometimes go a little too far, as Rev. Wright did in emotional sermons at his religious pulpit. Rev. Wright may have crossed the line, but he doesn’t deserve the attacks that question his patriotism or his sincerity in challenging growing racism and hatred that dominate not only American society but also our foreign policy conduct. Read more »

Airport security in Israel, protection or harassment?

By Sherif Hedayat - When I flew into Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv, Israel on November 28th, I thought the four-hour “security check” was uncalled for. I tried to justify the ordeal as a blatant profiling of a potential terrorist attacker because I was of Middle Eastern descent. This did not discount the fact that they detained any and all Arabs or Middle Eastern people that were traveling alone. Read more »

Islamophobia and self-hating Arabs

By Ali Alarabi – A recent weeklong campaign undertaken by anti-Arab, anti-Muslim racist David Horowitz in university campuses across the US designed to intimidate and terrorize students and professors who do not share Mr. Horowitz views when it comes to Israel. Horowitz created an organization called Campus Watch group against what he calls Islamo-facisim. Islamofacists are anyone, student or a professor, Muslim or Christian, Arab or not whom does not share Mr. Horowitz nationalist support for Israel or dare to criticize its aggressive policies. Read more »

Battle over Muslim schools really about pro-Israel activism

By Ray Hanania – A federal panel says that a Saudi Arabian school based in Northern Virginia should be closed because they don’t like some of the things they assert the school is teaching its students. Not surprisingly, the actions of the so-called U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (CIRF) are no different from other U.S. commissions controlled by the Bush Administration that have shown a clear pattern of anti-Arab and anti-Muslim bias. Read more »

War on Errorism: Cartoon depicting the cultural divide and the discrimination between the have-nots, women. Oct. 13, 2007. For more War on Errorism Cartoons, visit www.hanania.com/cartoons/cartoons.htm

Extremist Muslims in America are trying to force Americans to drop traditions that conflict with Islamic traditions provoking extremist Christian groups, while moderate Muslims and Christians remain silent on the sidelines. Visit http://www.hanania.com/cartoons/cartoons.htm for the War on Terrorism Cartoon archives.

Time to expel United Nations to a nation that is freeBy Ray Hanania — You do not have to agree with Iranian President Ahmadinejad to criticize President Bush for his hypocritical comments and the restrictive political policies he encourages that discriminate against Arabs and Muslims in America. The Iranian Leader has much to answer for, including oppressing his own people and highly publicized incendiary comments such as denying Israel’s right to exist, and allegedly calling the Holocaust a “myth.” Read more »

“Arab-aware” in mainstream America

By Saffiya Shillo — We are living in an Arab-aware time. Never before have “Arabs” sustained such an enduring and glaring spotlight. When I use the term Arab, I am interpreting it through usage offered by mainstream through the myriad news blurbs, TV specials, and documentaries consumed by average Americans. This usage seems to blanket anyone Middle Eastern, Arab or not, Muslim or not in a negative manner. There is no differentiation made. The number of talking heads and Arab-experts out there is amazing. Of course most all of them are non-Arab but they inform us daily about the “Arabs.” In fact, we are over aware. Read more »