Let’s all work together to stop terrorism! The Palm Beach County, Fla. Sheriff’s Office has a new video out urging local citizens to call them if something smells bad or seems a little weird, like, oh, a tourist is taking a picture of a bridge but there’s no one in the foreground — no spouse, no [...]

A neighbor of mine, of many years ago from a Gaza refugee camp, was a sacrilegious person par excellence. Unemployed like most inhabitants of the camp, he was extremely poor. His family responsibilities were daunting, yet prolonged Israeli military curfews made it impossible for him to find a job, let alone venture outside his miserable [...]

Mujeres y homosexuales. La combinación de ambas identidades provoca en el mundo árabe una mezcla de incomodidad y ocultación, cuando no el más absoluto rechazo y castigo. Invisibilizadas en sus sociedades, pero en ciertos casos más toleradas que los gays, su misma existencia es considerada por muchos como una afrenta a las bases del Islam [...]

“Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.” (La violencia extrema se las arregla para que no veamos los intereses a los que sirve) Naomi Klein 1. Noruega es uno de los últimos países europeos de modelo socialdemócrata que han sobrevivido a la ofensiva neoliberal. El secreto de esta supervivencia [...]

The revelation by CNN that Norwegian right wing terrorist Anders Behring Breivik kept a diary in which he obsessed about the dangers of cultural Marxism, multiculturalism, and the “Islamification” of Europe will remind many Americans of the tactics of our own right wing (only these themes have been taken up by people much more mainstream [...]

Imaginad si Anders Behring Breivik, el pálido, rubio, 100% noruego de ojos azules, ultra derechista loco por las armas, fundamentalista cristiano, responsable por el atentado con el coche bomba en Oslo y los meticulosos asesinatos selectivos en la isla de Utoya que mataron a 93 personas, hubiera sido un inmigrante musulmán. Ni siquiera hay que imaginarlo [...]

La Dra. Silvia Quintela fue “desaparecida” por los escuadrones de la muerte en Argentina en 1977 cuando estaba embarazada de cuatro meses con su primer hijo. Fue mantenida con vida en una base militar hasta que dio a luz a su hijo y luego, al igual que otras víctimas de la junta militar, fue probablemente [...]

Dr. Silvia Quintela was “disappeared” by the death squads in Argentina in 1977 when she was four months pregnant with her first child. She reportedly was kept alive at a military base until she gave birth to her son and then, like other victims of the military junta, most probably was drugged, stripped naked, chained [...]

In Franz Kafka’s short story “Before the Law” a tireless supplicant spends his life praying for admittance into the courts of justice. He sits outside the law court for days, months and years. He makes many attempts to be admitted. He sacrifices everything he owns to sway or bribe the stern doorkeeper. [...]

While nationalism sweeps the US with the death of Bin Laden, Muslim Americans worry bigotry against them will persist. News of Osama bin Laden’s death has brought a surge of nationalism throughout much of the United States, and the Obama administration is using the event to justify its foreign policy in the Middle East. Given [...]