09-11-09 Americans turn from hatred to education of Arabs/Muslims

Americans turn from hatred to education 8 years since Sept. 11
By Ray Hanania – We are finally seeing some real light through the black fog of American anger and hatred that erupted following the terrorist attacks eight years ago this week on Sept. 11. American anger against Arabs and Muslims is fast turning into education and enlightenment, in part because of a president who is resetting the nation’s moral character by washing away the demagoguery that symbolized the response of his predecessor.

08-20-09 American Arabs should reject paid activists messages on U.S. Census fight

Fighting the Census exclusion of Arabs on form is about empowerment
By Ray Hanania – The U.S. Government has done a great job hiring Arabs in our community to shill for their cause, to continue to oppress our community. The focus on the effort is the U.S. Census.I want you to notice something. Everyone one pimping and pushing for the American Arab community to “participate” in the U.S. Census are all PAID by the U.S. Government to tell us to fill out the census form.They lie that filling out the census form and “writing in our race” Arab in the little line at the bottom of the form is a way for us to be empowered. And when someone questions their lies, they slam and slander Arabs who argue that we have been misled by lazy, do-nothing Arab activists who have taken the short and easy route to money instead of fighting the long term challenge.

08-08-09 What did an Arab grocer do to be arrested in suburban Chicago?

Racism, fears and conflict in Oak Lawn
By Ray Hanania — (Oak Lawn, Illinois) — What exactly did Naim Massad do to justify being arrested, handcuffed and dragged to jail by police on the orders of an Oak Lawn Village building inspector?It was a scene that provoked his wife and teenage son into fearful emotion that the inspector, Jeanne Foody Galzin, and Police Officer M. Lupa then used to justify arresting, handcuffing and taking them to jail too? How does that happen in America, the same week that the nation is reeling from a similar confrontation between Cambridge Police Officer James Crowley and Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates that drew in the attention and comments of President Barack Obama?

08-08-09 Arab grocer charges racism in arrest over allegations of code violations

Arab grocer and family arrested in Chicago suburb
Store owners cries racism; neighbors say he is an “unsanitary” grocer
By Ray Hanania — (Oak Lawn, Illinois) While the nation is still reeling from a racial confrontation between a Black professor, a White Cambridge cop and President Obama, a food-store owner in the Chicago suburb of Oak Lawn alleges village inspectors and police shut him down over the past two years because he is a Muslim and an Arab. Naim Massad thought he had a perfect location to open his Middle Eastern grocery store in June 2007 in huge strip mall at 10333 S. Central Avenue in Oak Lawn, Illinois. The strip mall also includes a music store, a beef store, laundromat, liquor store, and a restaurant with a comedy club and bar. Officials in Oak Lawn confirmed they were shocked at what has transpired over the course of two years which on July 16, 2009 resulted in Massad, his wife, and one of their three under-aged children being arrested, handcuffed and jailed. The arrest was ordered by a health inspector who charged Massad’s store violated several village health codes.

08-05-09 Holy Days in Holy Land turning into fury

Holy Days Turning into Fury
Maria C. Khoury, Ed. D. — It is such a special month in the Holy Land especially for the Orthodox Church, although we start the fast thirteen days later, we turn our eyes and heart onto honoring the Most Holy Mother of God in this special 14 day Dormition Fast.

HANANIA: American extremists use Islamic extremism to fuel anti-Muslim hate, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, 9-17-08

American extremists use Islamic extremism to fuel anti-Muslim hate
By Ray Hanania  – The makers of a controversial DVD on Islamic extremism contend that they are not anti-Muslim. Yet, the majority of the people they interviewed in their highly publicized, well-funded documentary “Obsession: Radical Islam’s War against the West” include a who’s who of the most anti-Muslim and anti-Arab hatemongers in American political activism and journalism.

HANANIA: UNITY Pushes for diversity in mainstream media, but not in their own ranks, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, July 24, 2008

UNITY pushes for diversity in mainstream media, but not their own
By Ray Hanania – UNITY: “Journalists of Color” are gathering in Chicago this week promoting a limited constructed definition of “diversity” that represents only a small percentage of “journalists of color.” The group was founded by Black, Hispanic, Asian and Native American journalists some 20 years ago and they have done a great job of keeping other “journalists of color” out of their leadership ranks and out of a major presence during this year’s quadrennial convention. They haven’t let any other group “of color” into their inner sanctum since.

HANANIA: Obama may be inspiring, but what about his people? FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, June 19, 2008

Obama may be inspiring, but what about his “people?”
By Ray Hanania – Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama is a very inspiring person whose steady words seem to evoke confidence in his audiences. I wish he would drop that annoying Jesse Jackson-like rhyming that he does, and I am not quite comfortable about all the “people” who are around him. Imagine, for example, if John McCain’s “people” were organizing a public event and they decided that they didn’t want any Black faces in the crowd on the stage where Obama would be speaking. The outcry would be harsh.

HANANIA: Hate monger Michelle Malkin slams Dunkin Donuts and Rachel Ray for sporting “jihadi chic,” For Immediate Release, May 29, 2008

How real hatred is tolerated in America
By Ray Hanania – The level of hatred is so bad in America these days that even “looking” like a terrorist should give someone reason to fear. After Sept. 11, 2001, some 14 people who “looked” Middle Eastern were murdered by assailants angered by the terrorist attacks.  Some were Middle Eastern but most were not. Many of the suspects in the killings said they were angered because of their victim’s “ethnicity” and the terrorism, but no hate crimes charges were ever brought against any of the killers. “Backlash terrorism” is not considered a crime, but it should be. Including when the victims are TV food talkshow hosts accused of wearing “terrorist clothing.”

HANANIA: Obama “controversies” bring out America’s underlying race problems, For Immediate Release, April 29, 2008

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.