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    Veiled Muslim women in the West


    hijab
  • SEE ALSO Europe's Great Shame: Violating Veiled Women




    Forced to uncover: French Muslim Girls


    "Civilized" democracies and the "savages" in veils




    TRIBUTE
    Victims of The Holocaust



    Holocaust by David Olere

  • SEE also: Holocaust: The agony of walking in others' shoes

  • And: Holocaust: Note to Muslims



    TRIBUTE
  • Women making a difference
    Rachel Corrie


    TRIBUTE
  • JEWS for Justice
    Uri Avnery

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    THE COPTS



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  • Christians in Muslim nations


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  • Muslims Condemning Terrorism

    Sheikh of Al Azhar and German Chancellor Angela Merkel


  • Muslim OUTREACH to the West

    Cairo Mosque




    Catalogues of Torture & Abuse

    The most telling of atrocities

  • War crimes, Prisoner Abuse.
    Includes Russian War Crimes.


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    Don't miss the introductory passages!



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    e.g.
    The Sad Suffering of American-Muslim School Children




  • Discrimination Against Muslims, Arabs & Sikhs




  • Hate against Veiled Muslim Women





  • Palestinians And Israelis


    More CATALOGUES

  • Catalogue of Muslim Wrongs

  • Non-Muslim Wrongs - Christians

  • Non-Muslim wrongs - Christians

  • Non-Muslim wrongs - Jews

  • Non-Muslim wrongs - Africa - Latin America

  • Non-Muslim wrongs - Asia


    Special Free Speech analyses

  • Bigots: We’re in good company

  • Hate Speech versus offensive speech; versus criticism

  • The hypocritical qualifications of hate-mongers

  • Abusing media privileges: Dishonourable practice, or not?

  • Some Relevant HaSM articles


  • What the Tragedy of September 11, 2001 Taught Me (I)

    ...one of the most reliable ways to judge what any religion is truly like toward other human beings, is through its most difficult aspect, how it influences the way its followers treat those from other religions under diverse situations and circumstances.
  • Muslims Can't Understand the Hatred

    A Jewish friend once told me that when someone who didn't know she was Jewish wondered why God brought the Jews the Holocaust, she didn't comment. "Where do you start when faced with such racist ignorance" she thought.
  • Men Too Should Wear Veils!
    "Why don't men wear veils?" asks one western lady resentful of the veil Muslim women wear. In turn, I ask her, "Why don't Western men wear dresses, skirts, gowns or makeup?"
  • 'King and Country', or the Promise of Paradise
    ...it seems like only yesterday Europe's growing pains cost the world hundreds of millions of human lives. Christians fought and killed fellow Christians, almost exterminated European Jews, and colonized or destroyed numerous hapless peoples and cultures around the world.
  • Quran Says Kill, Bible Says Love
    It's remarkable how there are still those who, even as they quote the Bible's love, sow hate instead. It's remarkable but not surprising...
  • Facts That Haters Hate Hearing
    ...not once were the above facts brought to the public's attention, let alone emphasized. They're the kind of facts hate-mongers hate hearing.
  • Gloating Over Saddam's Fall...and America's Blunder
    Those who prematurely celebrated the victory or predicted the demise of the United Nations had made fools of themselves, and America's nose was being repeatedly bloodied by the Iraqi resistance. Worse yet, the much touted "American values" had been dealt a fatal blow in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal
  • If The World Were All Christian
    When the imbalance goes beyond being selective -- a taboo in itself -- and crosses into twisting positive facts to make them appear negative, it is disgracefully unacademic and discredits the writer.
  • Which Christianity Are We Talking About?
    It was just as enlightening to learn of the writer's contention that his god is "the only true God", which implies that Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists and others are all going to his god's hell.
  • America's Muslims Bear the Pain with Dignity
    American Muslims guilty of nothing other than being Muslim, rather than attack anyone, have themselves been physically assaulted, mistreated, discriminated against, .. their mosques and businesses vandalized, their veiled women assaulted, spat on, insulted,..
  • Difficult Act to Balance: Racial Profiling
    They chatted amongst themselves, left the counter unattended.., discussed their dinners in a manner suggesting deliberate intent to upset the passengers...
  • Justice, Not Land, Key To Prosperity
    It's time such countries as Israel and Turkey, among others, learned that land is not the key to prosperity...The once mighty Soviet Union is a case in point. Immense land could not help it remain viable.
  • Israel Talks Peace But Wants Land
    There never was a peace process to fail, there was, and there still is, a process to get the Palestinians to sign more of their land away. Even if a few years back one gave Israel the benefit of the doubt, now it's become undeniably obvious..
  • For a full list of HaSM articles click here
  • Some Relevant Links

  • ISLAMOPHOBIA: Anti Muslim Racism
  • 'The Nation' - section on 'Islam and Muslims'
  • The Independent (UK)-Opinion
  • Canadian Broadcasting Corp (CBC)
  • The Guardian-Religion
  • BBC
  • New York Times-Middle East
  • Guardian-Middle East
  • The Washington Post
  • Los Angeles Times
  • IPS-Inter Press Service
  • The Christian Science monitor
  • Beliefnet
  • Media Monitors Network
  • Media Matters for America
  • Haaretz - Israel
  • Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
  • Arab American Institute (AAI)
  • Islamica magazine
  • Al-Muhajabah's Islamic Pages
  • Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
  • American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC)
  • Gush Shalom
  • Jewish Voice for Peace
  • Tikkun Magazine
  • Islam Online
  • The Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP)
    Alternative media and sources of information and views
  • World socialist Web site
  • Antiwar.com
  • Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR)
  • Christianity Today
  • ZMagazine
  • CounterPunch

  • Free Speech

    An extensive section dealing with freedom of expression, the abuse of free speech, the double standards involved in applying it, and related issues.

  • The issue of the Danish cartoons and what it tells us about Europeans who support that kind of "free expression", the Dutch Quran film and its implications, and other similar incidents.


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    Non-religious & former Muslims challenging the gratuitous attacks haters level against Muslims



    We're not those "secular Muslims" who seek fame and gain through bashing Islam.



    Dozens of objective articles and resources

  • Challenging the haters who are striving to bring about a clash of civilizations.
  • Promoting the recognition of truths seminal to future interreligious harmony.
  • Exposing wrongs deliberately ignored or inadvertently overlooked in the history of modern civilization.
  • Addressing candidly and honestly the good and the bad on both the Muslim and the West's sides.
  • Among Muslims: Promoting the concept of "Live and let live" between fundamentalists and secularists.
  • Promoting the concept of "There is no compulsion in religion".





  • Dedication

    HaSM's home page is dedicated in GRATITUDE to the following politicians:

    American President Bill Clinton, Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien , and British Prime Minister Tony Blair .
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    Religious Symbols





    The Essence of this web site. Genuine secular Muslims' view of:

    A Realistic Path to Reconciliation

    Only by first becoming aware of, then acknowledging, then dealing with the truth of the wrongs on either side can we reach a meeting point and begin a healing process that will eventually close the gap between the West and the Muslim world. Neither side should believe they can live forever in fantasy-land bubbles created to give them peace of mind and psychological security either by burying their heads in the sand and living in denial of wrongs on their side which they wish to ignore, or by constantly bashing others to draw attention away from their own ills. We are here to expose wrongs on all sides.

    We lay out on the table the negatives in the west and in the Muslim world, past and present, as well as the positives in the west and in the Muslim world, past and present, so as to make a meeting point between east and west more attainable.

    At present the prevalent scenario is that the west is perfect and infallible, and well above the Muslim world in values, morals, etc. while the Muslim world is all bad. As we indisputably demonstrate in various ways on this web site, that is not only the farthest thing from the truth, and indeed absolutely untrue, but quite the contrary in numerous and very significant instances.

    We demonstrate that fact through very well documented evidence that is well researched and corroborated, widely critically analysed and reviewed, and objectively recorded. The literature abounds with such evidence.

    Since the wrongs of the Muslim world have been addressed and repeated in the west it seems ad nauseam, we focus more here on refuting some of the less justifiable, or even fully unjustifiable, attacks on Muslims, the kinds of attacks that are made more out of hate than a concern for reform in the Muslim world.

    In conjunction with that approach, our focus also encompasses exposing the negatives in the west's history and present which many in the west are doing their best to keep under the rug, while they tout what are basically untruths about the superior values of the West, a myth that is daily being debunked by none other than the West.

    By applying those two approaches - refuting unjustified attacks on Muslims and exposing the wrongs of the west - we aspire to make the playing field more level, and therefore give genuine peace, harmony, and understanding, a better chance of being realised. A meeting point can never be reached when one side incessantly bashes the other while simultaneously overlooking its own shortcomings. Such an approach cannot be conducive to peace and harmony, it alienates and creates animosity and hate.

    We hope that just as we appreciate exposing the wrongs of the Muslim world, the west will be gracious enough to accept and appreciate its wrongs being exposed as well, so that we may begin a healing process that might eventually bring us all closer together - we in the west and the Muslim world.








    Religious Symbols







    What are humanist secular Muslims








  • HaSM

    A - This is a forum for Muslims and non-Muslims who:

    I - Have the integrity, sense of honour, conscience, morals and ethics to speak up against the wrongs and the totally gratuitous hate that Muslims are subjected to in the west, even if they themselves are non-practicing, secular, atheist, or humanist former Muslims, or were never Muslim to begin with - Jews, Christians, Hindus, Sikhs, or anyone else with those traits.

    II- Are willing to denounce the wrongs or crimes that radical and extremist Muslims commit or ...


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    (See also: Muslims, Hold your Heads up High)

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    B - How we do what we do

    I - We don't pander to, or seek to curry favour with anyone, please or appease anyone, or ingratiate ourselves to anyone, Muslim, Jewish, Christian, white, black,or anyone else. We try our best to be fair to everyone and tell it like it honestly ought be told.

    II - We certainly do not use the fact that we disagree with religious beliefs, or that some Muslims commit condemnable violence, as ...

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    Asra Nomani

    The following opinion video link posted May 20th on the Washington Post video site was submitted to HaSM by Jorge Gomez - Producer, Faith Complex at Georgetown University.

    Mr Gomez writes:

    "Airing on May 20th is a filmed conversation with Asra Nomani, journalist, Muslim activist, feminist, and protagonist of the upcoming documentary 'The Mosque In Morgantown'. Ms Nomani will be the first guest on "Faith Complex," a Georgetown University production in conjunction with washingtonpost.com .
    Faith Complex is a dialogue about the entanglement of religion and politics hosted by Professor Jacques Berlinerblau and produced by Professor Tom Banchoff of Georgetown's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs. Upcoming guests will include proponent of secular Islam Abdullahi An-Naim, David Freedman of the Ant-Defamation League (discussing Cyber-Anti-Semitism), and Father Thomas Reese discussing the Obama administration and the Catholic community."

    ++Please click here to watch the video.

    The views and opinions expressed are those of the program and its guests and do not necessarily reflect those of HaSM




    Notice to secular Muslims: SOCIOLOGIST SEEKS SECULAR MUSLIMS FOR INTERVIEW
    Phil Zuckerman, Ph.D., is writing a book on people who were once religious but are no longer. He is eager to include some secular Muslims in his sample. He'd just like to hear your story and ask you a bit about your identity, beliefs, etc..
    Please contact him at: phil_zuckerman@pitzer.edu
    Thank you!







  • Current events briefs

    Barack Obama



    President Barack Hussein Obama:

    "We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus - and non-believers. We are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth.."

    "To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect."

    January 20, 2009





  • Congratulations American people
  • Congratulations World
  • Congratulations President Barack Hussein Obama




  • Special

  • President Obama's interview with Al-Arabiya news network, January 27, 2009 (video)

  • President Obama's address to the Turkish Parliament, April 6, 2009 (pdf text)






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  • See Also Islamo-opportunists

    "Muslim" and former "Muslim" opportunists who will say or write anything negative about Islam and Muslims to advance their own interests and get their fifteen minutes of fame. A page exposing and discussing them.





    The Basics
  • First: Osama bin Laden calls on Muslims to martyr themselves to attain paradise by blowing up innocent people. We respond, that to be assured a spot in paradise, eliminating a killer of children, such as bin Laden, would do the trick, as all the teachings of Islam indisputably confirm. Muslims must consistently and unequivocally condemn terrorism against anyone, Israelis, Americans, Europeans, Arabs, Asians, or anyone esle.

  • Second: Muslims should proudly stand tall and hold their heads up high. Islam and Muslims are not Osama bin Laden. A quick look at Muslims' and Islam's past and present - yes, even "present" - unquestionably warrants such pride and more.







  • There's no such thing as an all bad race, faith or nationality. If there's any group in the world deserving of negative stereotyping it's the extremists found in all faiths, races and nationalities.
    ( Hesham M. Sabry, Los Angeles Times )










  • Brief topical descriptions of the different HaSM departments on the web site





    HaSM's principles regarding promoting hatred through this web site





    Some of HaSM's original articles

    Excerpts from a selection of articles from the dozens offered on this site addressing hate against Muslims and other minorities, as well as other racism-related issues





    Arab Americans

    While HaSM basically indentifies with Muslims, when it speaks of Arabs it speaks of humanist/secular Christians and Muslims. A very large number of Arab-Americans are Christians, long established in America before Arab-Muslims, and many of them empathize with fellow Arab Muslims. At least two major organizations speak for both groups equally.






    'Islam: Faith and Cultures' - Weekly Radio Show


  • To our fans and friends all over the world: You can now listen to our weekly Sunday radio show in which we discuss many of the issues covered on this web site with guests that vary from members of the Canadian Parliament to members of the clergy from all faiths, to international personalities, as well as authors, artists, community leaders, and others. .

  • Live online streaming at Faith Fm 94.3. Simply click on the multimedia player of your choice on the page to listen live to the show at the time it is being aired (see schedule below).

  • To read about the hosts - Hesham and Gehan - or to see what past shows and guests were about since 2006 go to Islam show's web site.

  • North America - Eastern Daylight Saving Time at 1:00pm to 1:30 pm, Sundays all year.

  • United Kingdom (Britain) as of April 2009 - at 6:00pm to 6:30pm, Sundays.(adjust time to 'daylight saving time' in your country the rest of the year)

  • Egypt - as of April 2009 (Summer time will be later by one hour) 7:00pm to 7:30pm, Sundays

  • Israel - as of April 2009 - 8:00pm to 8:30 pm. (adjust time to 'daylight saving time' in your country the rest of the year)

  • Pakistan - as of April 2009 - 11:00pm to 11:30pm. Sundays (adjust time to 'daylight saving time' in your country the rest of the year)

  • Malaysia - as of April 2009 - 1:00am to 1:30am Mondays. (adjust time to 'daylight saving time' in your country the rest of the year)

  • Indonesia - Western Time (Jakarta) - 12:00am - 12:30 am Mondays - as of April 2009 - (adjust time to 'daylight saving time' in your country the rest of the year)

  • Australia (Eastern - Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra) 3:00am - 3:30am Mondays - as of April 2009 - (for night owls or insomnia sufferers) - (adjust time to 'daylight saving time' in your country the rest of the year)

  • Note that this is a live feed so you can only listen to it live as it is aired at the times listed above.

  • Live online streaming at Faith Fm 94.3. Simply click on the multimedia player of your choice on the page to listen live to the show.

  • To read about the hosts - Hesham and Gehan - or to see what past shows and guests were about since 2006 go to Islam show's web site.





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