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Firas Al-Atraqchi: The Arabs Are Dogs
Monday, 8 April 2002, 1:39 pm | Firas Al-Atraqchi
The Arabs are dogs. That's the latest finding from a series of seminars titled, "Arabs in the Twenty-first Century" held in Burma last week. More >>
Firas Al-Atraqchi: Humiliation As Palestinians Die
Monday, 18 March 2002, 6:13 pm | Firas Al-Atraqchi
In the past 12 days more than 159 Palestinians have been killed with some 1200 wounded. Israeli Defence Forces reported 'holding' some 1200 to 1500 men between the ages of 18 and 45 for questioning. More >>
Firas Al-Atraqchi: A Win That Defines a Nation
Monday, 25 February 2002, 6:35 pm | Firas Al-Atraqchi
Canadian flags are waving, Canadian cheers are rising; Canadian spirits are embracing a hard-won, much deserved victory. More >>
Firas Al-Atraqchi: Playing the Game
Wednesday, 20 February 2002, 9:38 am | Firas Al-Atraqchi
The U.S. Administration is angry. Very angry. The war in Afghanistan has not been the resounding success that conventional media have made it out to be. Sure, the Taliban have retreated to the mountains from whence they came. Osama bin Laden and ... More >>
Firas Al-Atraqchi: Women of Palestine Fear Nothing
Tuesday, 12 February 2002, 11:08 am | Firas Al-Atraqchi
The recent bombing in Jerusalem has redefined the laws governing the Intifadha and the 17-month conflict in Israel and the Occupied Territories. More >>
Firas Al-Atraqchi: The Height of Racism
Wednesday, 6 February 2002, 1:08 pm | Firas Al-Atraqchi
Events in the Middle East are reaching saturation point. Within the past week, hardline supporters of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon have unleashed a barrage of disparaging remarks calling for the murder and deportation of the Palestinian people. More >>
Firas Al-Atraqchi: CNN Owes Al-Jazeera an Apology
Monday, 4 February 2002, 1:17 pm | Firas Al-Atraqchi
CNN’s airing of an Al-Jazeera taped interview with Osama bin Laden last week triggered a heated war of words with the Qatar-based independent Arabic news Network. Al-Jazeera alleged that CNN had obtained the tape, which Al-Jazeera itself did not air, through ... More >>
Firas Al-Atraqchi: Turkey Criminalises Dissent
Monday, 28 January 2002, 11:53 am | Firas Al-Atraqchi
International criticism of Turkey’s repressive and often brutal policies towards its Kurdish and non-Turk minorities has just become a criminal offence under new anti-terrorism legislation. On February 13, Faith Tas of the Aram Publishing House ... More >>
Firas Al-Atraqchi: Bomb Iraq?
Tuesday, 22 January 2002, 12:39 am | Firas Al-Atraqchi
Sure. Let’s go in there full throttle and use our most impressive machinery to bomb those Iraqi bastards back to the Middle Ages. Let’s teach them a lesson they won’t forget; destroy their bridges and their hospitals, their water refining stations, ... More >>
Firas Al-Atraqchi: Anti-Semites and Anti-Termites
Sunday, 30 December 2001, 11:59 am | Firas Al-Atraqchi
A few weeks ago, a prominent U.S. congressman lambasted the Egyptian press for running stories filled with ‘anti-semetic’ rhetoric. That was followed by a prominent law professor ridiculing an Al Jazeera spokesperson with accusations that the only independent ... More >>
Firas Al-Atraqchi: Public Enemy Number One
Monday, 17 December 2001, 2:00 pm | Firas Al-Atraqchi
"I think you sent my father into Lebanon. Ariel Sharon, I accuse you of having made me suffer for 16 some odd years. I accuse you of having made my father suffer for over 16 years. I accuse you of a lot of things that made a lot of people suffer in ... More >>
The Militant Jewish Face of Terrorism In The US
Thursday, 13 December 2001, 3:37 pm | Firas Al-Atraqchi
Two Jewish members of the Jewish Defense League were arrested in Los Angeles early Wednesday in connection with an alleged plot to bomb Arab-American and Islamic institutions in Culver City, California. More >>
Firas Al-Atraqchi: Terrorism In Goshen, Indiana
Thursday, 13 December 2001, 10:23 am | Firas Al-Atraqchi
Terrorism struck at the heartland of America as major news broadcasters reported that a ‘terrorist’ had shot 35 people at a manufacturing plant in Goshen, Indiana late last week. As America prepared to Strike Back, initial reports indicated that ... More >>
Firas Al-Atraqchi: Palestine’s Untenable Situation
Monday, 10 December 2001, 9:13 am | Firas Al-Atraqchi
The killing of Hamas activist Mohammad (Ahmad) Selmi during clashes with Palestinian security forces and the attempted house arrest of Hamas’ spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin have brought the situation in Israel and the Occupied Territories to ... More >>
Firas Al-Atraqchi: Truth Laid to Rest in Jerusalem
Wednesday, 5 December 2001, 9:17 am | Firas Al-Atraqchi
In the aftermath of the suicide bombings in Jerusalem, CNN and other major North American networks were inundated with several Israeli public relations icons placing blame squarely on the head of Palestinian National Authority President Yasser Arafat. ... More >>
Firas Al-Atraqchi: Bombings Are To Do With Revenge
Monday, 3 December 2001, 10:39 am | Firas Al-Atraqchi
This weekend saw a culmination of violence that began with the assassination of high-ranking Hamas member Mahmoud Abu Hanoud when an Israeli helicopter gunship fired a missile at his car near the West Bank town of Nablus. Two other Hamas members were also killed. ... More >>
History Revisited: One God, One Humanity
Monday, 26 November 2001, 11:10 am | Firas Al-Atraqchi
New Zealand based journalist, Dave Crampton (Big News with Dave Crampton – Big News: When Bombing Activates Peace Activists ) claimed last week that Islam was a violent religion, “and on the topic of religion and war – you will notice that it is the ... More >>
Opinion: From The Frying Pan To The Fire
Monday, 19 November 2001, 12:24 am | Firas Al-Atraqchi
Even as the Berlin Wall was taken apart brick by brick, another institution was crumbling around the world: the enforced socio-economic integration of different ethnicities within former Communist nations. More >>
Guest Opinion: Who Is Salman Rushdie?
Monday, 12 November 2001, 10:54 am | Firas Al-Atraqchi
A few weeks ago, infamous author Salman Rushdie published an article, which was carried by various media, in which he attempted to explain his personal theory of Islamism and its relevance to the events of the past two months. Perhaps feeling vindicated ... More >>
Guest Opinion: A Muslim American Nightmare
Tuesday, 6 November 2001, 10:45 am | Firas Al-Atraqchi
It has been almost two months since the nightmare began. A nightmare for almost everyone I know. A nightmare for thousands of innocent lives lost; now they dream no more. More >>
