American Muslims making a religious pilgrimage to Mecca are being encouraged to file civil rights complaints if they feel discriminated against by airlines. Joining Tom & Gary, Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, Founder, American Islamic Forum for Democracy.
One of our biggest problems here is that many of us and of our politicians in particular seem to have lost the ability to strategic vision and allowed themselves to indulge in details and are satisfied by looking at only one corner of the image that they are no longer able to comprehend the magnitude of this critical conflict of our time. I am an Iraqi so naturally I am only interested in what’s going on within the borders of my country or even the city where I live, just like most people in the Third World are, and this is fine and expected.
STUDENT leaders are organising a mass protest over St Andrews Universityﾒs decision to award an honorary degree to a former Iranian president who praised Hezbollah.
Goth, a Somali blogger, discusses the role fo censorship in stifling freedom and liberty in Muslim nations.
For those who return from the Iraqi battlefield, it is disturbing and descpicable to find a domestic environment where every military challenge or set back seems gleefully welcomed as news or a political opportunity.
Schwartz comments on many of the false assumptions in the international uproar over the Danish cartoons
The issue of religion in politics came roaring back Sunday, however, when interim leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil, thought to be a moderate, declared in his “liberation” address that Libya would be an Islamic state and that sharia law would be a fundamental source of legislation.
Former CIA Director, Jim Woolsey, and Seth Leibsohn, radio host, author of The Fight of our Lives and producer of Bill Bennett Morning in America have broken the story on the Obama administration’s inappropriate handling of Dr. Jasser’s appointment last summer by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to the US Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy. At the finish line a few weeks ago, the White House pulled the plug on the appointment with no explanation whatsoever. The administration is hiding something.
Dr. Zuhdi Jasser joins Randi Kaye on CNN Newsroom to discuss the House Committee on Homeland Security’s hearings on “The Threat of Muslim-American Radicalization in U.S. Prisons.” Dr. Jasser sees the hearings as a vital tool to begin the discussion on solving the problem of Muslim radicalization.
Zuhdi Jasser, AIFD President, joins Anderson Cooper, Paul Begala, David Gergen and the panel to discuss the latest surreal developments from the publicity seeking Florida pastor.