June 24, 2008

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June 10, 2008

By MOWAHID HUSSAIN SHAH 

So, the UN is being tasked to investigate BB's slaying. It seems that some want it to follow the Rafik Hariri model, in that when the Lebanese leader was killed in February 2005, the UN Security Council (UNSC) adopted a resolution whereby an investigative team was despatched to Lebanon.

Arguably, the UNSC - which has been rubber-stamping big power moves in the Middle East - may have had a stake in implicating Syria for it being a member of the "axis of evil" and a "roadblock" to the "peace process" there. It bears mentioning here that, in 2004, the 67-year-old nearly blind wheelchair-bound paralysed Palestinian spiritual leader Sheikh Yassin was gunned down by an Israeli helicopter gunship. One does not recall a similar effort or outrage from the UNSC.

Abed Ayoub

ADC 

Earlier this month The Department of Homeland Security, and The United States Citizens and Immigration Services (USCIS) introduced a plan that would reduce the Naturalization Background backlog, as well as the green card background.  Officials hope to move nearly 900,000 applicants by the end of September.  This is great news for the Muslim and Arab communities, respectively; however a much larger battle on the immigration front looms, in the form of NSEERS.

Mowahid Shah 

The paramount issue is presented to be one of Islamic 'extremism'. It is pertinent, therefore, to inquire what inflames and exacerbates this perceived brand of 'extremism'. Here, it is not just Afghanistan or Iraq which matters. Kashmir matters, Palestine matters, Chechnya matters, and the Balkans matter. And so, too, matters the Western mind-set and policies. It is the latter which is most responsible for the inexcusable re-eruption of the cartoon controversy in Europe.