Contents

1-Introduction

2-Language

3-Length of Article

4-Send your questions and comments

5-Watch the media for us

6-Hate is a Two-Way Street

7-Guidelines for articles

a-Topics and Issues

8-You May Request That Your Name Be Withheld

Introduction

Send us your own/original pieces whether they were or were not published elsewhere.

Commentaries, articles, analyses, essays, papers that deal directly or indirectly with our goals and causes , or the topics discussed on this web site are welcome from both members and non-members alike. ( see details below)

Language

If your English is weak don't worry. Though we don't pretend to excel in English ourselves, if the ideas expressed in your submission are interesting we will edit and correct it, get your approval on the editing, and post or publish it.

Length of Article

It can be as short as a few comments, or as long as several parts (i.e. Part I, Part II, etc.). If you're a regular writer, we'll create an archive for your articles, and save a regular spot for your articles on the site.

Send your questions and comments

Let us know what you like most, or dislike most about the web site and its contents, and the way it's organized.

Send us your questions, criticism, or comments about the issues, the views, the articles, our coverage of events, etc., or issues and topics you would like to have our opinion about. We'll post all relevant ones and our comments, if any, to them.

And kindly alert us to any errors you spot in our writings or elsewhere on the web site.

Watch the media for us

1-If you find any items that fit our various catalogues (such as "prisoner abuse and torture by the west"; "hate crimes against Muslims"; "Muslim wrongs","Muslim crimes against non-Muslims"; "notable women"; "Muslims in Europe", etc.) please send them to us with URL. We don't post items whose references are hate sites which specialise in demonising Muslims, Jews, Christians, or anyone else, except occasionally for the purpose of critical analysis and as examples of hateful rhetoric.

2-Follow the media in your town or region and send us interesting or relevant items, whether positive or negative, so we may post them, comment on them, or respond to them. Be sure to include the source of the item in detail.

Hate is a Two-Way Street. Send us your observations.

The issues of hate and hate-incitement play a major negative role in modern day societies. All concerned, decent people need to report instances of hate-incitement either by Muslims or by non-Muslims to the proper authorities, especially if it approaches in any manner incitement to commit violence or terrorism.

But hate-mongering should also be challenged, whether against the dominant society or minorities within it, even if it's not considered within the realm of illegal hate speech, if any

In the west, especially in nations such as America, where freedom of speech is guaranteed no matter how much hate a person spews, the only way to confront it is through exposing it for the ugliness it is. The bulk of the public in the west can differentiate between preachers of hate amongst Muslims and ordinary Muslims, and appreciates the fact that Muslims confront and expose the haters amongst them, as much as they expose the haters in the mainstream west.

Some of the hate is insidious. It appears as innocent debate or analysis, but conveys negative stereotypical portrayals of a group, or constitutes a generalized attack on that group, or forms a biased analyses, or resorts to selective data or the such, that stereotypes and stigmatizes that group as a whole.

HaSM wants to expose haters on both sides, the Muslim and the non-Muslim. Both contribute to the problem equally.

The focus since 9/11 has been fully on Muslim clerics who preach hate, but not at all on what sends young Muslim men to listen to them. They are young men alienated and disaffected by the perpetual, both overt and insidious hate they suffer at the hands of some groups and individuals in the west. Such groups and individuals, "haters" as we refer to them, include academics, politicians, religious leaders, writers, columnists, and so on. Naturally, we always emphasize - and we can't overemphasize it- they are a small unrepresentative minority, since the vast majority, as we repeatedly remind readers, are very fair, just, balanced, tolerant, and unprejudiced people.

Anytime you catch such insidious hate please report it to us; we will catalogue it, analyse it, and send our analysis and objections directly to the source, as well as law-enforcement authorities and the government and other entities if warranted, so they are kept aware of such events.

To learn how to detect insidious, indirect, or implicit hate please see ”How to detect Insidious Hate” .

Guidelines for articles

Topics and Issues

We welcome:

1-All articles dealing with current issues that concern Muslims and Arabs, and the problems they face in the world.

2-Articles analysing or addressing Muslim-West relations, interactions, problems, and conflicts.

3-Articles dealing with the condition of non-Muslim minorities in Muslim nations and all related topics from within Muslim nations.

4-Articles dealing with general conditions - political, social, economic - and problems within any Muslim nation.

5-All analyses dispelling myths and misinformation about Islam and clarifying its misunderstood, or deliberately distorted, teachings.

6-Articles analysing actual Quranic verses or Hadiths that could be misused or misinterpreted by those who would do evil, or those verses and Hadiths whose original interpretation by past interpreters needs to be reviewed in light of modern times.

7-Articles addressing how supposed divine laws affect secular life, and how they influence -- negatively or positively -- individuals and people living under religious laws. Similarly, how such divine laws relate to secular laws, legislation, and the application of secular laws in our times.

8-Objective and factual articles or analyses that use the Quran, the sayings of the Prophet Mohammed (the Hadith) or other legitimate and recognised sources of Islamic teachings to explain through those teachings how Islam regards terrorism, women's rights, treatment of fellow human beings and all such topics relevant to current events.

In other words, we welcome articles explaining the Quran and educating those who believe it is the word of God, or those who want to learn about the Quran and other Islamic teachings, both positive and negative. Balanced arguments, that explain both sides of an issue, are favoured.

9-All articles or analyses of historical issues that directly or indirectly reflect upon, or concern, Arabs and Muslims.

10-Letters sent to media but not accepted for publication.

11-Any other creative ideas you may have relevant to this web site's views and topics.

NOTICE: We do not renumerate contributors of articles etc.

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YOU MAY REQUEST THAT YOUR NAME BE WITHHELD

If you request it, we will publish your article or views anonymously or under a pen name which you may use regularly with HaSM.

We offer that option because we realise that admitting humanism or apostasy, or critiquing Islam in most Islamic countries is a punishable offence, even if in the more moderate nations the punishment is absent or only nominal. (See also becoming a friend of HaSM).