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Terror Alerts For various types of terror
Drunk-driving terrorism
Crimson:Very high
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Gun policies terrorism
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Random mass murder terrorism
Crimson: Very high
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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..
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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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HaSM
Humanists speaking up against HATE through scholarly argument and analysis
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 .
Read full 'Dedication'
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.
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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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
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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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 )
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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.
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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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